Bond girl: Octopussy

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Bond girl: Octopussy
007 Film: Octopussy (1983)

Actress: Maud Adams

Bond connection: Octopussy is a jewel smuggler who lives a life of luxury. Her father studied octopi, hence the nickname Octopussy; her real name is Octavia Charlotte Smythe. Octopussy owns her own circus and floating palace in which she lives. Magda, the ring leader of the circus, works with her and, together, they work with Kamal Khan to get a fake Fabergé egg from Soviet madman, General Orlov.

Octopussy is first seen when Khan shows her the egg. Her face is not seen and Khan tells her about Bond. He insists on killing Bond but Octopussy says not to. She meets Bond a few minutes the first hour the movie, revealing that her British father was a traitor that Bond exposed; she wished to meet Bond to thank him for delaying the arrest of her father long enough for him to save face by committing suicide before he could be arrested and convicted. She and Bond make love for a couple of days and leaves for her circus train. Bond follows her to the circus and tries ever so desperately to stop the bomb which Octopussy is unaware of. When he tells Magda and Octopussy who he is (disguised in a clown suit), and that they had been betrayed by Orlov and Khan, Octopussy grabs a gun and shoots off the location of the bomb. Right on cue, Bond disarms the bomb.

Back in India, her group raids Khan's palace to get revenge for Khan's betrayal but she is kidnapped and knocked unconscious by Gobinda. She wakes up in Khan's private plane and as she sees Gobinda go out to kill Bond she slaps him but gets knocked back into her seat. After Khan loses control of the plane, Bond saves Octopussy and jumps out leaving Khan to crash but Octopussy nearly falls off the cliff before she is saved again by Bond. They make love in the end on board Octopussy's boat during his recuperation.

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Bond girl: Andrea Anders

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Bond girl: Andrea Anders

007 Film: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Actress: Maud Adams

Bond connection: Andrea Anders is Francisco Scaramanga's mistress. She is seen with Scaramanga on his private island, first helping him dry off after a swim and sunbathes with him. After the pre-title sequence, the plot for the story becomes clear. James Bond has been sent a note from Scaramanga, a famous assassin, with a golden bullet engraved with 007. As the plot unfolds it becomes clear that Miss Anders sent the note and the bullet hoping Bond would come and eventually kill Scaramanga. She considers Scaramanga a "monster" but she cannot just leave him because, according to her, people just don't walk out on him.

After watching the mysterious Miss Anders collect a shipment of Scaramanga's custom-made gold bullets from a casino in Macau, Bond follows her back to her hotel in Hong Kong and walks in on her as she showers. Startled, she opens the shower door and points a Beretta (Bond quips 'a water pistol?') at him. Demanding a bathrobe she escorts him out of the bathroom at gunpoint.

As she makes a call to the reception desk, Bond lifts and opens the cigarette packet containing Lazar's bullets. Unnerved, she orders him to give them to her. He obliges and as he passes her the packet, he knocks the weapon from her hand and pins her to the bed. Bond proceeds to interrogate her about her connection with Scaramanga, threatening first to break her arm if she refuses and then slapping her when she proves uncooperative. She reveals that she is his mistress and divulges his location for that evening; the Bottoms Up Club.

Later that evening, after assassinating British scientist Gibson, Scaramanga returns to his Junk moored in Hong Kong harbor. Anders is in bed awaiting him. Drawing the golden gun from his jacket pocket, he sensuously caresses her arm and lips with the weapon, eliciting a fearful and repulsed response from the girl.

She later meets Bond again in his hotel room, where she says that she wants Scaramanga dead and she says that Bond can have anything. Bond considers the solex agitator, and Anders says that he can have her as well (saying she is not unattractive). She then changes into a light blue bathrobe which Bond admits is charming, and Anders turns off the light. Bond and Anders kiss and Bond says that sending the bullet to MI6 was an inspiration. He then opens up her bathrobe, and drops it. It falls to the floor leaving her completely naked. That night Andrea goes back to Scaramanga and as she puts way her jewelry, she sees the solex.

The next morning, Bond meets Miss Anders to pick up the Solex, but finds she has already been shot and killed after Scaramanga discovers her deceit, Scaramanga shooting her in such a manner that the bullet strikes her heart but the entry wound is partially concealled by her jacket. It is unknown if Bond killed Scaramanga for revenge on Andrea or just to keep his promise.

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New event: James Bond 007 Film Fest

Event: James Bond 007 Film Fest
Where: Paramount Theatre, 213 North Schuyler Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
When: 5-6 September 2014

5 September 7.15PM:
50th Anniversary "Goldfinger" (1964)

6 September 4.00PM
40th Anniversary "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1973)

6 September 7.15PM
"The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)

Special Appearances by:

* Richard Kiel 
(Jaws in "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977) 
and "Moonraker" (1979))

* Maud Adams 
(Andrea Anders in "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1973) and Octopussy in "Octopussy" (1983)

* Raymond Benson
Bond Author: 
"Blast from the Past" (short story, 1997)
Zero Minus Ten (1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies (novelisation, 1997)
The Facts of Death (1998)
"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story, 1999)
"Live at Five" (short story, 1999)
The World Is Not Enough (novelisation, 1999)
High Time to Kill (1999)
DoubleShot (2000)
Never Dream of Dying (2001)
The Man with the Red Tattoo (2002)
Die Another Day (novelisation, 2002)

Autograph Session:
6 September 10AM - 2PM at The Majestic Theatre

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