#Len Deighton

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[davidhudson]

Happy 95th, Len Deighton.

[randomberlinchick]

More important than what I'm wearing to the opera is what I'm planning to read during my train journey and in those fabulous Kaffeehäuser. Y'all know how I feel about John le Carré, but Len Deighton also has a special place in my heart. So given that I've only read six (out of nine) of the Bernard Samson books, I've decided to end the series on my trip. Very much looking forward to some Cold War espionage! 😎

A pity that I didn't have time to order the hardcover editions, but they would have been too heavy to lug around anyway...

[alanofalltrades]

I'm watching The Ipcress File and within 26 seconds this movie delivers more sensual energy than James Bond films ever could

[audiemurphy1945]

Billion Dollar Brain(1967)

[theblackestofsuns]

[ivovynckier]

John Barry's theme for the spy movie "The Ipcress File".

[tunasaladonwhite]

[shelbycarpenter]

[nebraskaenergy]

Police State Britain: the Sky Grows Darker

So some poofters in Britain and the EU think they are so very elite that they can threaten to arrest an American citizen in the United States for violating their fascist hate speech laws. Well, nothing new under the sun then, in a document published by Tom Jefferson, after opening with the words, “When in the course of human events…” he wrote “ He has combined with others to subject us to a…

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

During the revolutionaries' arduous march through the rain forest (with its powerful metaphor of entropy and decay), nature, chance and human ineptitude inexorably claim their victims

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[zmkccommonplace]

Bravery is just the knack of suppressing signs of your own fear.

Len Deighton, Yesterday’s Spy

[randomberlinchick]

"She must be the only little girl in the world who hasn't discovered that you fell in love with yourself a long time ago, and will never be unfaithful."

[torchlitinthedesert]

Len Deighton wanted to cast the Beatles in the movie version:

"...Bertrand Russell mentioned the Beatles to me, saying that they wanted to make an 'anti-war film' and wanted me to produce it...

"Paul McCartney came and we devoured the vast curry, drank beer and talked and talked until the small hours of the morning. I was writing and producing Oh! What A Lovely War. To create a narrative I had made the central characters into the Smith Family and the four Beatles could have fitted into this role. But understandably, they wanted to have their own music and their own lyrics. The two projects just wouldn't fit together and, although Paul and I hoped that we could do something together at some future date, we never did."

John and George using their musical going days to cast Victor Spinetti for AHDN. ❤

[jimkeeley]

Musu the Brewcat by Jim Keeley Via Flickr: Waredaca Brewing Company Laytonsville, Maryland