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| Mika / 007 Travelers |
"Bond had been instructed to make contact and he had arranged to do so, that afternoon at three o'clock, outside (the rendezvous had seemed time appropriate to Bond) the Reptile House at the Central Park Zoo"
"After the scrambled eggs in the Edwardian Room, everything went hopelessly wrong and, instead of the dream programme, there had to be urgent and embarrassing telephone calls with London head- quarters and, and then only by the greatest of good luck, un untidy meeting at midnight beside the skating rink at Rockefeller Center with tears and threats of suicide from English girl. and it was all New York City's fault ! One can hardly credit the deficiency, but there is no Reptile House at the Central Park Zoo."
What: Daniel Craig Designated UN Global Advocate for Mine Elimination 
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| Photo: UN / Evan Schneider |
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| Photo: UN / Evan Schneider |
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| Photo: UN / Evan Schneider |
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| Photo: UN/Mark Garten |
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| Photo: UN / Evan Schneider |
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| Daniel Craig was seen on Monday morning 30 April 2015 leaving for the clinic to have a surgery |
"Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station. "Some love is fire, some love is lust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust".
Neither had had regrets. Had they committed a sin? If so, which one? A sin against chastity? Bond smiled to himself. There was a quotation for that too, and from a saint - Saint Augustine: "Oh Lord, give me Chastity. But don't give it yet!"
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| Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
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| Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
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| The interiors scene was actually filmed at Pinewood Studios, UK Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
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| Agent Travelers @ UN Headquarters, NY, USA |
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| Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
"I'm not going to sleep with you, said Tiffany Case in a matter-of-fact voice, - “so don’t waste your money getting me tight. But I'll have another and probably another one after that. I just don’t want to drink your Vodka Martinis under false pretences.” Bond laughed. He gave the order and turned back to her. “ We haven’t ordered dinner yet”, he said. “I was going to suggest shellfish and hock. That might have changed your mind. The combination’s supposed to have quite an effect."
"They drew up at the best hotel in New York, the St. Regis, at the corner of Fifth avenue and 55 street. A saturnine middleaged man in a dark blue overcoat and black homburg came forward behind the commissionaire. On the sidewalk, Halloran introduced him.
“Mr. Bond, meet Captain Dexter.” He was referential. “Can I pass him along to you now, Captain?”
“Sure, sure. Just have his bags sent up. Room 2100. Top floor. I’ll go ahead with Mr. Bond and see he has everything he wants.”
“Bond, the collar of his new raincoat up round his ears, was missed as he came out of the entrance of the St. Regis Drugstore on 55th Street, which has a connecting door into the hotel."
"It was the Puritans perversity to love and loathe the world's richest city - this attitude Bond had always had towards America. While staying in New York, he spent several days in Stanhope, a five-star hotel opposite the Metropolitan museum. Sir William Stephenson had recommended it. Its precious things in spite of its grandeur and tranquility pleased Bond."
"They moved out on the street, and Bond noticed that Leiter walked away with a heavy limp. “In Texas even the fleas are so rich they can hire themselves dogs. Let’s go. Sardi’s is just over the way. Leiter avoided the fashionable room at the famous actors’ and writers’ eating house and led Bond upstairs. His limp was more noticeable and he held on to the banisters. Bond made no comment, but when he left his friend at a corner table in the blessedly airconditioned restaurant and went off to the wash-room to clean himself up, he added up his impressions. The right arm had gone, and the left leg, and there were imperceptible scars below the hairline above the right eye that suggested a good deal of grafting. But otherwise Leiter looked in good shape.”
“There was a medium dry martini with a piece of lemon peel waiting for him.”
Ian Fleming: "Diamonds are Forever"
"During a few days in New York, he did not see the squirrels, but got to know oyster stew at Oyster Bar in Central Station's suburban floor. He thought it was the finest food since bouillabaisse, which he had eaten before the war with Marthe de Brandt in Marseille."John Pearson: "James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007"
"And then what about the best meal in New York - oyster stew with cream, crackers, and Miller High Life at the Oyster Bar at Grand Central? No, he didn’t want to sit up at a bar - somewhere spacious and comfortable where he could read a paper in peace. Yes. That was it! The Edwardian Room at the Plaza, a corner table."
"He turned left out of the apartment building and walked a block down to the Parker Méridien. Across the street Ed Rushia, in a chauffeur’s cap, nodded at the wheel of a stretch limo. Bond smiled to himself. Ed was certainly an operator. They had told him to hire a car and back up. He had obviously done just that and hired a stretch limo. The night porter was on duty outside the 56th street entrance to the imposing hotel, and as Bond approached him, he stepped forward.
“I help you buddy?”
“I need to use one of the public telephones.” He slipped a ten into the man’s hand.
“Oh, okay, sir. Thank you. You want I should get you a cap?”
“I’ll be just fine,” and disappeared into the bright lit interior. A minute later, he had swiped a credit card through one of the telephone booths and dialled the same local number as before."
