Everything or Nothing,
a new documentary on James Bond films’ history, shows the real
story behind the film franchise—full of twists and turns, heroes,
villains and narrow escapes, like the 007 fantasies themselves.
Everything or Nothing released in theatres on Friday, branded Global
James Bond Day to mark 50 years since the world premiere of Dr. No. The
documentary directed by Stevan Riley underlines how the series was not
always so secure. “We’ve been through two bankruptcies, and we’ve been
through attacks by competing series so
we’ve had our ups and downs,”
said long-time Bond producer Michael G. Wilson of the franchise’s more
serious setbacks.
ABBA museum,
a permanent exhibition devoted to the pop supergroup will open
next year in the Swedish capital. The museum will feature memorabilia
like stage costumes worn by the singers. “Swedish pop music is an
important part of our cultural heritage,” said former ABBA member Bjorn
Ulvaeus. ABBA shot to fame when they won the 1974 Eurovision Song
Contest with the song Waterloo. They went on to become one of Sweden’s
biggest exports with such hit songs as Dancing Queen and Gimme Gimme
Gimme (A Man After Midnight). Separate plans for an earlier museum on
ABBA were shelved in 2008.
David Blaine,
magician and endurance artist, climbed atop a wobbling platform
above a high-voltage Tesla coil in a tent on a Manhattan pier on
Tuesday, dressed in a 20-pound chain-mail suit, and proceeded to shoot
purplish arcs of lightning out of his hands and the top of his head. The
event was a preview of a stunt he will undertake starting on Friday,
when he plans to stand on a 20-foot-high platform for 72 hours amid an
artificial lightning storm crackling between low-current, million-volt
Tesla coils. Blaine’s stainless steel chain-mail suit is a so-called
Faraday suit, an adaptation of the principle of the Faraday cage in
which an enclosure of highly conductive material shields whatever is
within the enclosure from an electric field.
