#b: davidoff’s

[felinefractious]

Davidoff's*UA Sonya

🐱 Munchkin (Long Legged)

📸 Maria Davidova [Davidoff’s*UA]

🎨 Black Tortoiseshell Harlequin

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Hustlers 2019

[of-elitiism]

"Hey uh, jus' wanted t' say thanks fer' lending me a smoke a while ago--" Cue the coyote extending a fresh, unopened pack of cigarettes towards the woman. Scarred lips try their best to stretch into an thankful smile, although the smile quickly fades as his gaze snaps down to one of the pockets of his coat, gloved hand patting around the many pockets before eventually producing what seemed to be a well-kept zippo lighter. Different from the one he normally carried with him, placing the neatly polished metal lighter onto the sealed pack, his now free hand reaches out to reach for her hand, his grip surprisingly gentle once he does make contact and turning her wrist and placing the gifts into the palm of her hand. Scarred lips once again stretch to a small, warm smile, or at least the best he can produce with the lack of sleep he's had. - for terry!

There's almost a cartoonish characteristic to the young woman's wide eyed stare and the constant blinking as he spoke to her. First of all because, wow, did someone actually seek out her company? Because that was freaking rare as hell nowadays. And second--- he's got her a gift?! And holy shit, he's now holding her hand?! Much to her own surprise there's a small squeaky 'meep' sound coming from her alongside a slight warm flushing of her pale cheeks. Needless to say that she's left staring at the pack of cigs and the lighter in her hands for several silent moments before the information registers properly.

"...Holy shit, ya got Davidoff's?! Man, those are expensive...!" her voice is low and incredulous as she turned around the objects to better inspect them. "...And this?! Oooooohohoooo, this is sooo freakin' cool...! Ya can do tricks and stuff with these, right?" the lighter is immediately opened and lit and the smell of the flammable fluid is oddly stingy and nice to her nose. Needless to say her initial shyness just vanished into pure, undiluted excitement.

Then she remembered she's still talking to someone and immediately got embarrassed again.

"Oh damn, man...! Sorry, I-I-I should've like--- say thanks first, cuz ya did a nice thing an-and ya really shouldn't have! Like seriously, it was all cool y'know, just--- helping out a buddy in need, hehehe~" she playfully pressed her fist into his arm and as her chuckle died down, she turned her gaze to the floor, still slightly pink in the cheeks and smiling like an idiot.

"Again, thanks--- It feels like waaaay too much, hehehe~ B-But if ya're sure 'n' all, it's really nice of ya," as her bony fingers still trace the metal edges of the zippo, her eyes suddenly light up and she turned to confidently snake her arm around his.

"Hey, do ya drink coffee? Cuz i was just about t'grab one and i can treat ya to one. Pro bono, ok? Don't go 'round getting me more stuff cuz imma get spoiled rotten real soon~"

"...also, not to be awkward, but--- i dunno if we formally met yet soooo I'm Terry by the way~!"

[violinoarteetecnica]

Fritz Kreisler nasceu em Viena em 02 de fevereiro de 1875, considerado um dos maiores violinistas da história, foi aclamado pela incrível beleza de sua campainha, de características únicas, bem como pelo seu intenso e expressivo vibrato, seu uso do portamento, elegância e naturalidade de seu legato e sua articulação perfeita, características que conferem à sua arte um selo inconfundível. Possuiu um grande número de instrumentos ao longo da sua carreira. Para mencionar alguns: Construído por AntonioStradivari: 'Davidoff' 1708, 'Baillot' 1732, 'Greville' 1726, 'Huberman, Kreisler' 1733, 'Parker' 1715, 'Earl and Plymouth' 1711, 'Lord Amherst of Hackney' 1734. Construído por Giuseppe Guarneri del Ges ù: 'Mary Portman' 1735, 'Hart, Kreisler' 1734 ca. Kreisler 1732, Kreisler 1730. Além disso, na sua tenra idade, possuiu um violino Amati, posteriormente um Giovanni Grancino e um Nicolò Gagliano. Mais tarde de um violino construído por Pietro Guarneri di Mantova em 1707, um Carlo Bergonzi de 1735 e da cópia do 'Cannone' de Paganini construído por J. B. Villaume em 1850. 📸 Web. #corderoliuteria #violinesyviolinistas #happybirthday #FritzKreisler #greatviolinist #historicviolinist #violinist (em Botafogo, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLHA9-gjka/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[milkmaidovich]

He finds them in a box in the Gallagher attic.

He didn't know the box existed, was really just up here to scavenge shit for the new apartment before Debbie or Carl got to it, since he's sure Lip took what he wanted when he no doubt came digging for baby things. The Gallagher's are nothing if not pragmatic about saving shit.

But tucked in the back corner, under boxes of Fiona's stuff she didn't take, with an old rolled up rug half hiding it, is a box labeled "Mickey's Shit" in his husband's spikey, jagged writing, as sharp and aggressive as Mickey was when they were kids, dangerous and scary and uninviting.

It must be left over from when they were playing house over on Trumbull, or maybe from after? How it ended up here Ian's not at all sure. That year and change of drug-fueled, unmedicated mania and depression is hazy sometimes, like looking through windows that haven't been properly cleaned in years, filmy and dirty with odd, sparse patches of clarity—easy nights with his beloved little patchwork family, mornings with the babies, and, running through it all, Mickey, Mickey, Mickey, shining and bright and so fucking clear, images of him sharp and bright, always in high definition.

Ian opens the box with the spiky writing, smiling gently at the memories that come back to him, trying to reframe his thoughts like his therapist says—it's so easy to think of all the worst things from that time, but all that does is bring shame and self-loathing with it, some days so strong they nearly drown him. Instead, he can counter those feelings with the good things he remembers, and let the positive balance the negative, one memory at a time.

He's hit with the scent of Then-Mickey: the faintly lingering smoke of Marlboro Reds and the strong, almost cloying smell of the Pinaud Clubman aftershave he'd started to swipe from the drugstore not long after he kissed Ian that first time, almost like it was his way of getting dressed up, of showing Ian he meant something. Ian closes his eyes, inhaling that unique blend of sharp citrus, some sweet, soft, flowery things, an undercurrent of musk and the very specific finish of antiseptic alcohol.

Fuck, maybe he needs to stop by the B & G Heinz on his way home and get a bottle, see if Mickey would switch, just sometimes, from that Davidoff stuff he'd picked up on sale from Walmart.

Shaking himself from his scent-induced daze, Ian opens his eyes and finally looks down at the contents of this mystery box.

It's full of...notebooks? Paper? His brow furrows in confusion as he reaches inside, the crinkling of the thick paper the only sound in the quiet attic (it's still so weird for him, to come to this house and find it empty and quiet, even in the middle of the day). He wraps his fingers around the spine of what he sees now is a sketchbook, and he's hit with more memories, little glimpses and flashes—Mickey with a pencil behind his hear and little pocket-sized notebooks while they were spending their time in the abandoned buildings of the South Side, Mickey with some papers spread over a box or a book, a ballpoint pen moving quickly on it's surface; Mickey, sitting across the dark of their bedroom, keeping Ian company in the only way Ian would allow, deep in the throws of his first, terrible, awful depressive episode.

His breath is shaky as he flips the cover back, and he gasps a little at what he sees, eyes stinging and heart swelling even as it breaks a little all over again for the scared kids they used to be.

It's a sketch of Ian, sleeping it seems, lashes fanned over his still-soft cheeks, freckles faded from all the time he spent inside with his almost-nocturnal club schedule, but still noticeable on the high planes of his face. Fuck, they're so specific, the patterns ones he knows well from seeing them every day, the little constellations of them scattershot across his skin, and of course Mickey knew them that well, of course he could replicate them with such specificity, even from across a dark room. Who had ever loved him like Mickey Milkovich has always loved him?

He spends the next ten minutes going through the box, every single notebook and page he pulls from it covered in drawings of Ian, awake, asleep, on his back, his side, his stomach, hair increasingly stringy until suddenly it's not, clothes the same until they aren't, and he remembers Mickey hauling him to the dingy bathroom, sitting on the floor of the tub with Ian's back to his chest while he scrubbed the sweat and grime from Ian's skin, washed the grease from his hair, and helped him into clean clothes before laying him on the couch so Mickey could change the sheets.

He's crying silently by the time he gets to the bottom of the box, and this sketch makes him sob outright. It's the only one he's seen in color, and it feels somehow right that it is.

Seventeen-year-old Ian is sitting up against the headboard, a chipped mug clutched tightly in his hands, and the threadbare red blanket pulled across his legs and hips. He's wearing the gray hoodie he and Mickey had been sharing longer than anything else, so long that neither of them could even remember whose it was to start with. His eyes are closed, but there's sunlight streaked across his face, his hair bright and shining in the golden light, and the barest hint of a smile hiding in the corners of his mouth.

---

He does stop at the B & G Heinz on his way home, but he doesn't limit himself to the aftershave.

"Whatcha got there, lover boy?" Mickey asks from where he's sprawled on their new couch, wearing Ian's red henley and a pair of boxer-briefs (since they live on the fancy west side now he's decided that maybe he'll try out fancy underwear now).

Ian doesn't say anything, just sets the box on the kitchen counter and empties the bag he'd had resting on top. They don't have much up on their walls yet, just wedding photo after wedding photo, with the one most prominently displayed from the moments before their first kiss as husband's, hands on each other's faces, love and devotion and blinding, radiant happiness shining like the sun from them both.

Right underneath, Ian presses his extra purchases, one after the other, the command strips he'd added before he came inside doing their job and attaching them instantly to the wall.

On one side, a drawing of him at what he knew was his absolute lowest, sweat-grimed and greasy, and yet every detail so lovingly rendered it's almost too much for him to bare looking at for too long. On the other, the color sketch he'd found, sun shining on his face and fragile, delicate hope tucked into the smile hiding in the corners of his mouth.

"Oh," is all Mickey says when he joins Ian in front of the drawings. "I forgot I stashed those there, after."

Ian's eyes are stinging again and he turns to cup his husband's face in his hands. "You loved the fuck outta me then, huh?" he asks, and the words are hushed, reverant and with just this side of amazed disbelief.

Mickey nuzzles against Ian's palms, smiling that fucking smile, the same one in the wedding photo behind them, the one Ian is just starting to get used to seeing. "Ah, see, that's where you're wrong, tough guy." His eyes sweep back and forth, ice-blue and beloved, and Ian is so goddamn lucky he gets to see them filled with joy and love like this.

"Loved the fuck outta you then?" Mickey's smile gets even bigger, even brighter, his own hands coming up to cradle Ian's face, thumbs brushing away the tears running down his cheeks.

"Ian Gallagher, I ain't ever fuckin' stopped."

ok so i have a sad artist!mickey headcanon and i’m sharing it with the hope that it will make other people just as sad as it makes me. post 4x12 when ian is depressed in bed and sleeping, he’s so still that mickey, who has no clue what to do, decides to use him as a model and draws his sleeping figure. ian finds the drawings years later but doesn’t remember the story behind them.

[redcarpetview]

'THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON' LISTINGS: MAY 28 – JUNE 1

Pictured: (l-r) Actress Cate Blanchett plays "Egg Russian Roulette" with host Jimmy Fallon on May 24, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)   

        **Monday, May 28: Guests include Blake Shelton, Scott Eastwood and musical guest Blake Shelton. OAD 3/19/18

      **Tuesday, May 29: Guests include Jennifer Lopez, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and musical guest Car Seat Headrest . OAD 5/9/18

      **Wednesday, May 30: Guests include John Mulaney, Cardi B and musical guest Cardi B. OAD 4/9/18

     Pictured: (l-r) Athlete Serena Williams during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on April 25, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)  

         Pictured: Musical Guest and Co-Host Cardi B performs "Money Bag" on April 9, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)

            **Thursday, May 31: Guests include Serena Williams, Priyanka Chopra and David Blaine. OAD 4/25/18

     **Friday, June 1: Julie Bowen, Justin Hartley and Dov Davidoff. OAD 5/11/18

      These listings are subject to change.

  **denotes changes or additions

[fiifiadinkra]

Davido - 1 Milli (Official Video)

Davido – 1 Milli (Official Video)

Davido – 1 Milli (Official Video)

Davido Music WorldWide (DMV) boss brings to us the offiical video of his single “1 Milli” which is off the album. In this video he has his wife Chioma featuring in it and it has something colorful to express their love. The song was produced by Teekay Witty. Enjoy.

Check Out : Yaw Sarpong And The Asomafo – Ahobrase3 (Feat. Sarkodie)

[php003]

Davidoff Special B @davidoffcigars @davidoffgeneva #davidoffcigars #davidoffgeneva #timebeautifullyfilled #smallbatchcigar #stogiefriends #cigarnoise #cigarnoisebois #tlepodcast #sotl #botl #cigar #cigarlifestyle #cigarporn #notacigarinfulencer https://www.instagram.com/p/CPM9ypVHf11/?utm_medium=tumblr

[naivemisheru]

ComProg History YOU SHOULD KNOW!!!

1843 Ada Lovelace is credited as being the first person to describe or write a computer program.

In 1843, she described an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine.

1889 The Hollerith tabulating machine was invented by Herman Hollerith in 1889, allowing for data to be programmatically counted and tabulated.

1956 One of the first programming languages, FORTRAN, was introduced to the public on October 15, 1956. It was developed by John Backus and others at IBM.

1958 The second-oldest programming language, LISP was developed by John McCarthy and was first used in 1958.

1959 COBOL started being developed in 1959 by Grace Hopper and Bob Bemer.

1964 The original BASIC programming language was developed by John Kemeny, Mary Keller, and Thomas Kurtz, and was introduced to the public on May 1, 1964.

1965 Simula is considered the first ever object-oriented programming language, developed around 1965 by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.

1966 Martin Richards developed the BCPL programming language in 1966, which became popular due to its portability.

1966 The MUMPS programming language was developed by Neil Pappalardo at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1966.

1967 Known for its graphics capabilities, Logo was created by Seymour Paper in 1967.

1971 Pascal was developed in 1971 by Niklaus Wirth.

1972 Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan developed the C programming language at Bell Labs in 1972.

1972 The Prolog programming language was developed by Alain Colmerauer and colleagues in 1972 at the University of Marseilles.

1972 Smalltalk was the second ever object-oriented programming language and the first true IDE, developed by Alan Kay and others at Xerox PARC in 1972.

1974 SQL is a database programming language and was developed by Edgar Codd in 1974 and is still important in the programming language world.

1975 A variation of LISP, the Scheme programming language was created in 1975 by Guy Steele and Gerry Sussman at MIT's Artificial Intelligence lab.

1975 The Altair BASIC programming language was developed by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff, and was made available for use on January 2, 1975. It was used to create programs for Altair computers.

1979 Development of the C++ programming language was started in 1979 by Bjarne Stroustrup. Originally called "C with classes," C++ is one of the most widelyused programming languages.

1979 Oracle released the first commercial version of SQL in 1979.

1979 The Department of Defense developed the Ada programming language, originally named DoD-1, and named it after Ada Lovelace in May 1979.

1984 FoxPro is a programming language for developing database applications and was released by Fox Software in 1984.

1984 Cleve Moler started developing the MATLAB programming language in the late 1970s, and it was released to the public, with the MATLAB software package, in 1984.

1987 The open source programming language Perl that was developed by Larry Wall was introduced in 1987. It is commonly used in creating CGI scripts and programming web applications.

1988 Developed in the mid-1980s by Brad Cox and Tom Love, the Objective-C programming language was officially licensed by NeXT in 1988.

1990 Tim Berners-Lee developed the HTML markup language in 1990. HTML is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages in the world.

1990 Haskell, a general-purpose programming language, was introduced in 1990.

1990 Engineers at Apple developed the Dylan programming language in the early 1990s. Dylan was designed to resemble the syntax of the ALGOL programming language.

1991 Development of Python was started in 1989 by Guido van Rossum and released to the public in 1991.

1991 Visual Basic was developed by Alan Cooper and released in May 1991.

1993 Lua was created in 1993 by engineers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

1993 R is a programming language created by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka and introduced in 1993.

1994 The concept of CSS was started by Håkon Wium Lie in 1994. W3C introduced the specification for CSS in 1996.

1995 Java was developed by James Gosling and other developers at Sun Microsystems, and was first introduced to the public in 1995.

1995 The object-oriented programming language Ruby developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto was first released in 1995.

1995 The experimental, multi-paradigm Curry programming language was introduced by Michael Hanus, Herbert Kuchen, and Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro in 1995.

1995 Racket is a general purpose programming language developed by Matthias Felleisen in 1995.

1995 A server-side interpreted scripting language, PHP was developed by Rasmus Lerdorf starting in 1994 and released on June 8, 1995.

1995 Originally named LiveScript when released in November 1995, JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich and renamed as such in December 1995.

1996 Introduced in 1996, OCaml is an object-oriented version of the Caml programming language.

1998 XML is a markup language, with the specification for XML being developed by W3C and recommended on February 10, 1998.

1999 Development of the D programming language started in December 1999. D is a higher level language compared to C++.

2000 Based on C++ and Java, the C# programming language was developed by Microsoft and introduced in June 2000. C# became an ISO standard in 2003.

2003 The object-oriented programming language Scala was introduced in 2003.

2005 Don Syme developed the F# programming language and Microsoft first introduced it in 2005.

2007 The Go programming language was developed at Google starting in 2007. It was completed and introduced to the public in 2009.

2007 Rich Hickey developed the Clojure programming language and released the first version in 2007.

2008 Introduced in 2008, Nim is a programming language used to develop software requiring strict limits on how system memory is used.

2008 The object-oriented programming language Reia was introduced in 2008.

2010 The multi-paradigm CoffeeScript programming language, capable of being compiled into JavaScript, was officially released in 2010.

2011 Google developed the open source web-based Dart programming language, introducing it to the public in October 2011.

2012 Julia was developed by Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B. Shah and released in 2012. It is a high-level programming language used for scientific computing.

2014 Babel is a general-purpose programming language developed in 2014 and used to create programs for conserving battery life and system resources on devices.

2014 Created by Apple and released on June 2, 2014, the Swift programming language helps create programs and apps for iOS, macOS, the Apple Watch, and AppleTV.

2015 Graydon Hoare started development of the Rust programming language around 2010. After contributions from hundreds of people, it was officially released as version 1.0.0 alpha by Mozilla research on January 9, 2015.

[purotrader]

Another successful “Stories in Smoke” in the books! Today I enjoyed an amazing conversation with @candytman and enjoyed this Limited Edition Davidoff for the Art Series first release. Hope you guys are enjoying the show! Tag the next guest we should have on the show! #tag #storiesinsmoke #guest #conversations #gotrare #purotrader https://www.instagram.com/p/B-u6SaaDamh/?igshid=5icc3zujwb5x

[felinefractious]

Davidoff’s*UA Iconic

🐱 Munchkin [Limb Deformity]

📸 Maria Davidova [Davidoff’s*UA]

🎨 Black Tabby Van

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled against a claim that the provincial government’s 20-per-cent property transfer tax for foreign buyers is discriminatory, unconstitutional and in violation of trade agreements.

Jing Li, a Burnaby resident who moved to Canada from China in 2013 as a student, was the sole plaintiff in the case against the province.

Li entered a contract to buy a $559,000 residential property in Langley on July 13, 2016. When she closed the deal in November, the foreign buyers tax had come into effect on Aug. 2, and she had to pay an additional $83,850 as she was neither a permanent resident of Canada nor a Canadian citizen, according to the ruling.

Li said in the claim that she “felt that the tax unfairly labelled me and many others like me as being the cause of housing unaffordability” and that it “further reinforced” anger toward buyers from China due to unfair biases and stereotypes.

Li’s lawyer, Luciana Brasil, has previously cited support from other foreign buyers and the possibility for the claim to widen into a class-action with potentially significant costs for the province if it were to lose.

Li’s lawyers presented testimony from economist Tom Davidoff, associate professor of sociology Nathanael Lauster and history professor Henry Yu, all with the University of B.C., as well as data analyst and consultant Jens von Bergmann.

The province submitted testimony from UBC economist Tsur Somerville and SFU finance professor Andrey Pavlov. It later added reports and affidavits from UBC professor emeritus David Ley, SFU adjunct professor Andy Yan, and housing activist Justin Fung.

In the ruling posted late Thursday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Gregory Bowden looked at the context leading up to the tax’s enactment, whether the province had the constitutional right to implement it, and whether it violated international treaties such as NAFTA.

“In relation to the plaintiff’s argument that the tax perpetuates prejudice, stereotyping, or disadvantages of Chinese people in B.C., it is not enough that the stereotypes and prejudices existed or were mentioned in public discourse around the time that (the tax was) enacted. The plaintiff must also show that the tax itself perpetuated or exacerbated racial stereotypes and prejudices,” wrote Bowden. “All of the expert economists appear to accept that foreign buyers contributed to housing unaffordability.”

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Tagging: @ontarionewsnow @abpoli @politicsofcanada @pnwpol

[ruchimallik]

"You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth & splendour" ~Stephen Fry on this one. . Absolutely True! P.G. Wodehouse is a rather unconventional choice and wouldn't please you unless you're a seasoned #reader who loves the language and have a flair for an archaic backdrop with generous dollops of ludicrous piquant satire; in which case, it will be a perfect rib-tickling delight you'd much savour. . Also, in the background is my dark version of the much popular #dalgona coffee made from #davidoff fine roast juxtaposed against a genious from my favourite homegrown brand @amul_india 's white limon #chocolate ❤ . . #plebianpleasures #booklover #reader #bibliophile #lovetoread #bookstagram #reading #currentlyreading #bookish #bookishfeatures #bookstagram #notes #readingnook #pgwodehouse #blandingscastle #livre #bookpic #bookbabe #bookstagrammer #instabook #instagood #dalgonacoffee #coffeelover (at Mumbai, Maharashtra) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-w0TiVhTuj/?igshid=5848tb06ibl6

[theaveragejoescigarblog]

#back2back #davidoff #stogietravels #luxury #swag #bigboy https://www.instagram.com/p/B-fq-G0ntFF/?igshid=1oxxed2lf0ldh

[visualness]

- ギャロ (THE GALLO) NEW LOOK -

[bondenargentina]

El paso de James Bond por la Argentina, hace 40 años

“¡Tenemos que filmar en este lugar!”, había dicho el productor Albert R. Broccoli cuando visitó Brasil durante el estreno de La Espía Que Me Amó y fue agasajado con un tour a las Cataratas del Iguazú. Este hecho fue el que, por un tiempo, llevó las aventuras de James Bond a la Argentina, aunque claro está que nuestro país no formó parte de la ficción de la onceava aventura del agente 007.

Moonraker fue finalmente la aventura que siguió a La Espía Que Me Amó, a pesar de que los créditos finales habían anunciado a Sólo Para Sus Ojos como la continuación de la misma. Se sabe: La Guerra de las Galaxias había sido un éxito y otros films como Encuentros Cercanos del Tercer Tipo parecían establecer el tema “espacio” en la agenda de la ficción a fines de los años 70.

Descartando la idea de la homónima novela de Ian Fleming en 1955, donde un empresario industrial entregaba a Inglaterra un misil para su defensa mientras en realidad pretendía detonarlo en el territorio, Moonraker llevó a 007 al espacio exterior, aunque eso llegó después de un recorrido turístico terrenal que incluía California, Venecia, Rio de Janeiro e Iguazú.

El 29 de diciembre de 1978, el equipo técnico comienza a rodar algunas escenas en Brasil. El 8 de enero se trasladan a Iguazú: frontera natural entre Brasil, Paraguay y Argentina. La escena que se filmará ahí es la siguiente: James Bond investiga al villano Hugo Drax en la región del Río Tiperape, a bordo de su lancha Glastron especialmente acondicionada por Q. Varios hombres del enemigo lo persiguen, incluyendo a Jaws, el gigante de los dientes de acero. En un momento nota que las cataratas se avecinan y la corriente comienza a llevar su embarcación al vacío. 007 escapa gracias al ala delta oculta por Q en la lancha, mientras Jaws y sus esbirros quedan a merced de la Garganta del Diablo, precipicio de 82 metros de altura en el cual se concentra el mayor torrente de las aguas del río Iguazú.

En 1542, el conquistador español Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca descubrió estas cataratas en durante su expedición en el océano Atlántico, bautizándolas  "saltos de Santa María". Un tiempo después volvieron a ser conocidas por el nombre otorgado por los guaraníes que habitaban la región: "Iguazú", que en su lengua significa "gran cantidad de agua".

Dos tercios de los 2,7 kilómetros de extensión de las mismas lo ocupa el lado argentino, por lo cual es éste el sector donde se puede aprovechar una mejor visibilidad de este majestuoso accidente geográfico. Las aguas que vierten en las cataratas no son de lo más pacíficas, ni siquiera para un hombre de armas tomar como es James Bond, por lo que se debió buscar alguna solución para rodar la persecución entre el agente secreto y las huestes de Drax río abajo.

La batalla marítima se rodó en un pueblo llamado Júpiter, en el condado de Palm Beach en Florida, Estados Unidos. Cualquier cosa que se intentara rodar en la región de Iguazú implicaba una logística bastante complicada, ya el mismo Roger Moore recordó en su comentario en audio del DVD lo difícil que era llevar e instalar el equipo de filmación en el lugar.

Steve Fensone, el doble de Moore como Bond, fue el que debió realizar el vuelo en ala delta que llevara al agente 007 a un territorio seguro. Dicho territorio estaba, naturalmente, compuesto por alguno de los dos países que compartían el accidente geográfico con Brasil. Y así fue que la provincia de Misiones formó parte, hace ya 40 años, de una película de James Bond.

Nada se conoce sobre la negociación del productor asociado William Cartlidge con el gobierno argentino, en ese momento liderado por la junta militar que encabezaba el general Jorge Rafael Videla. El que sí tiene algunos recuerdos de la filmación es Michael Cheyko, asistente del director Lewis Gilbert. “No estábamos fuera de la civilización”, nos aclara desde Roma cuando lo contactamos por Skype en junio del año pasado. “Estábamos en condiciones bastante adecuadas, un hotel muy lindo”, aclara.

No es la primera vez que la excelente fantasía de una película de James Bond nos envuelve como la ilusión de un truco de magia, incluso a los conocedores que se saben cada detalle y el “cómo se hizo” de cada escena. Cuando vemos a Roger Moore caminando por la selva tropical y nuestras cataratas del fondo creemos, involuntariamente, que Bond estaba en el medio de la nada. Y la realidad es que sí, Bond está en el medio de la nada, pero no Roger Moore.

Moore en realidad se encuentra en el Parque Nacional Iguazú junto a Lewis Gilbert e Irka Bochenko, la “belleza rubia” de la raza maestra de Drax que se la ve tentando a 007 a una peligrosa trampa. Todos ellos se alojaban en el lujoso Hotel Internacional, ahora propiedad de la cadena Starwood.

Desde la suite B del segundo piso del hotel, el actor británico dio unas cuantas entrevistas a Claudio España, enviado por el diario La Nación a cubrir el rodaje. En ningún momento se despojó de su saco safari, una prenda característica con la que donó al personaje de Ian Fleming a lo largo de sus siete películas en el rol: “Tengo siete trajes iguales. Me gusta andar por la calle, durante mi tiempo privado, con las ropas de Bond”, confesaba en una de sus entrevistas a España.

Moore siempre se tomaba tiempo para sacarse fotos con niños locales, además de hacerle alguna que otra broma al camarógrafo, como ponerle cubos de hielo en su camisa. Pero la realidad es que su agenda era muy intensa: el rodaje arrancaba cerca de las seis de la mañana y él ya estaba arriba a las siete. Su desayuno o almuerzo, o brunch como se diría hoy, variaba entre una vianda guardada “en una cajita de cartón” o una parrillada completa (¿cómo podría James Bond perderse nuestros asados?). “Recuerdo verlo a Roger junto a su mujer Luisa almorzar junto a la pileta un sándwich de lomo”, nos comenta Carlos Cessario, que por ese entonces estaba vacacionando en el mismo hotel que el intérprete del agente 007, que también recuerda la presencia del periodista de Canal 11 (actual Telefe) Jorge Jacobson en la zona del rodaje.

El calor de 40 grados centígrados azotaba fuertemente la región, obligando al actor y al equipo a hidratarse fluidamente. Moore, sin embargo, no se quejaba ni del clima ni de las 25 tomas que tenía que realizar entre las nueve de la mañana y las doce del mediodía. Se lo veía con su habitual sentido del humor: “Cómo no se me va a ver feliz, si siempre me ponen al lado de las mujeres más hermosas”, aclaraba.

Pasadas las cuatro, el día de rodaje se terminaba. Relajado bebiendo jugos frutales y disfrutando de sus largos habanos Davidoff, el actor concedía entrevistas. También disfrutaba de la pileta de natación y animaba las fiestas en la boîte del hotel, animándose a bailar tango y hasta a imitar los pasos de John Travolta, muy popular en la época de Fiebre del Sábado por la Noche.

Algunos medios se enfocaban en los aspectos más críticos del rodaje. Clarín reportó que el doble de riesgo Steve Fensone sufrió un accidente utilizando el ala delta tratando de ejecutar la acrobacia de Bond: "Fensone se vio de pronto arrastrado por una corriente de aire que, en lugar de elevarlo, lo llevó al fondo del cañón. Finalmente, Fensone consiguió llegar hasta una islita, de donde un helicóptero logro rescatarlo", se leía en la nota de ese diario publicada el 24 de enero de 1979, que citaba a un medio paraguayo, el ABC Color.

En las entrevistas con La Nación, Moore negó (“sin certificado de verdad”, aclara el entrevistador) que hubiera dobles heridos como dijeron varios medios locales. Lo que sí reconocen hasta el día de hoy muchos de los que participaron de las escenas de Iguazú fue el episodio de rescate de la nave Glastron, que quedó varada en las aguas que conducen a las cataratas.

Martin Grace, otro de los históricos dobles de Moore, intentó en vano recuperar la nave con una soga que lo sostenía de un helicóptero: su misión fracasó y Grace debió ser alejado de la zona por las fuertes corrientes. Al final, tras un día de lluvias, la nave desapareció siendo seguramente devorada por la Garganta del Diablo. Ese fue el motivo por el cual en la película nunca vemos caer la Glastron de 007 y el editor John Glen corta a una toma del agente secreto sobrevolando el paisaje (demás está decir que el primer plano de Moore en ala delta fue realizado en Pinewood, con un montaje de las Cataratas de fondo).

La filmación en Puerto Iguazú terminó, según indican los medios, el 8 de febrero de 1979. Al final, nuestro país no aparece como los países en los que se filmó la película, pero un crédito entre los agradecimientos menciona al “Gobierno de Argentina”.  La relación de Moonraker con el país continuó a principios de agosto de 1979, mes en el que la película se estrenó en el teatro Gran Rex: Christina Hui, Nicaise Jean-Louis y Françoise Gayat, tres actrices que conformaron las bellezas del harén del villano Drax, visitaron Buenos Aires y Misiones para el estreno. En su tiempo en Argentina fueron al programa Mónica Presenta, invitadas por Mónica Cahen D’Anvers y Andres Percivale junto al astronauta Buzz Aldrin.

El propio Roger Moore también volvería a visitar el país, no ya como James Bond, sino como Embajador de la Buena Voluntad de UNICEF a mediados de 1998, viaje del que tuvo un grato recuerdo según comentó en su libro My Word Is My Bond, publicado en 2007.

Y así fue el único paso de James Bond por la Argentina, por ahora. ¿Vendrá otro?