After nearly 60 years of heroics, James Bond today seems more revered than beloved. His newest iteration, No Time to Die, has delivered a welcome jolt to exhibitors worldwide, though to some filmgoers (and critics), the movie plays more like Daniel Craig’s Long Goodbye.Craig has bowed out gracefully, though, in contrast to some of the previous Bonds (there have been seven) who went public about their dicey relationships with their proprietors. “An actor is merely one gadget in the Bond paraphernalia,” as Sean Connery once put it. “He’s a servant of the brand.”The “brand,” to be sure, has remained inviolate — well, not exactly; more on that below. “Missing out on my Bond movie was one of my luckiest career accidents,” John Gavin once told
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