Legendary production designer Ken Adam died Thursday, March 10th, at the age of 95. Known for his Academy Award-winning work on films like The Madness of King George and Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, the designer also served as a lynchpin in seven James Bond films during the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s island volcano hideout in You Only Live Twice (1967).
The casino from Dr. No (1962) where, for the very first time, we hear the phrase “Bond, James Bond”.
“Russalka is a sculpture, created by Estonian sculptor Amandus Adamson, in 1902. The bronze and granite monument stands as a memorial to the crew of a Russian battleship “Russalka” (“mermaid” in russian), which sank in Gulf of Finland in 1893. Sculpture depicts an angel, bearing an Eastern Orthodox cross pointing towards the sea, in assumed direction of the shipwreck. During Soviet occupation, the cross was removed; it has since b...
“There are reports that the group called it Steve in homage to a 2006 children’s film, Over the Hedge, where the characters give the name to a creature they have not seen before.”