R.I.P., 007…
Posted by Ben on October 16th, 2003
From Wired.com:
Former Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Dalzel-Job, the inspiration for James Bond, has died at age 90. While Dalzel-Job considered Bond “far too dramatic” and shunned his womanizing ways, Ian Fleming, Dalzel-Job’s former naval intelligence colleague and creator of 007, insisted the British war hero was the model for the secret agent. Dalzel-Job could ski backward, navigate a midget submarine and undertake the riskiest parachute jumps. In one of his most daring exploits, he rescued residents of a Norwegian town just before it was destroyed in a German bombing raid in 1940. Dalzel-Job recounted his adventures in his memoir, From Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy, but skipped the Bond flicks. “When you have led such an exciting life,” he said, “you don’t need to see a fictional account of it.”
Throw in a 007 movie tonight - the Cubs are done in the playoffs now, so life returns to normal.