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PRESS RELEASE – December 22nd 2006

PLEASE BE AWARE…

…that neither the James Bond Nederland or the James Bond Web Italia websites are endorsed in any way whatsoever by 007 MAGAZINE & Archive Limited.

Both websites are using images lifted directly from the 007 MAGAZINE website and its printed publications (which are exclusive to the 007 MAGAZINE Archive) without prior permission.

We would encourage all Bond enthusiasts, whatever their nationality, to view these images at www.007magazine.co.uk at their original size and superior quality.

For Bond Lovers Only! – 007 MAGAZINE – Nobody Does It Better!
 

BUYER BEWARE! BUYER BE AWARE!

The Oddjob hat offered in Julien’s Auctions on June 17th, 2006 at Planet Hollywood New York is not a hat worn in the 1964 film Goldfinger by wrestler Harold Sakata as stated in Julien’s Auctions’ catalogue and publicity material.
The hat in question is in fact the bowler that Harold Sakata wore for his wrestling appearances after the film Goldfinger was released, when he was then billed as ‘Oddjob’ on the wrestling circuit. Prior to 1964 and his appearance in the James Bond film Goldfinger he was featured on wrestling bills as ‘Tosh Togo’. Sakata NEVER at any time actually wore a steel-brimmed bowler hat in the film Goldfinger.
The hat Harold Sakata actually wore in Goldfinger was a square-crown bowler purchased for the film production from hatters James Lock & Co of St. James’s Street, London.
007 MAGAZINE publisher and renowned Bond archivist Graham Rye sold THE Oddjob hat from his archive at the CHRISTIE’S September 17th 1998 James Bond auction, and which was purchased for a record-breaking £62,000 by the Bond filmmakers EON Productions Limited. The Oddjob bowler sold by CHRISTIE’S was a special effects hat created by Oscar-winning SFX technician (the late) John Stears and his team for use in the production Goldfinger, and remains the only surviving Oddjob hat with an authentic link to the film, and was featured in recent years as a ‘star’ attraction in EON Productions’ ‘Bond, James Bond’ exhibition at the Science Museum in London, and The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

For further information regarding the authentic Oddjob bowler hat please visit:
http://www.007magazine.co.uk/biography3.htm
http://www.007magazine.co.uk/props_archive.htm

For further information regarding the Julien’s Auction please visit:
http://www.juliensauctions.com

June 17th, 2006 – 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at Planet Hollywood New York (and Simulcast Live 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. London Time at Planet Hollywood London)

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26th FEBRUARY 2006

Dear 007 MAGAZINE subscriber

With the release of 007 MAGAZINE issue #48, our quarterly publication will cease to be a printed paper magazine. Commencing with issue #49 it will become a webzine, published exclusively online at www.007magazine.co.uk

While this is regrettable, spiralling production, printing, and administration costs make the continuation of 007 MAGAZINE in its current printed format commercially unviable. However – we, and I hope you the reader, want 007 MAGAZINE to survive and continue to entertain James Bond enthusiasts worldwide for many years to come!

Although we’re sad to see 007 MAGAZINE cease as a paper quarterly, we’re very excited about its varied and long-term possibilities on the World Wide Web.

We will continue to bring readers the same unique look at the world of James Bond with exclusive articles, interviews and photo-layouts, but now partnered with even more rare and never-before-seen imagery, and reproduced in a vibrant, clearer and more exciting medium. Quite simply – 007 MAGAZINE will never have looked better!

While Bond news, forums, and fan club websites proliferate, the 007 MAGAZINE website will continue to consolidate its unique expert presence on the World Wide Web as the world’s foremost James Bond archival resource. Nobody does it better!

From August 1st 2006 – 007 MAGAZINE (issue #49 onwards) will become part of the ‘pay-to-view’ area on our website at www.007magazine.co.uk where the 12-month subscription fee will cost £19.99 ($37/€29).

Once your subscription payment has been accepted you will be able to login to the members' area of 007 MAGAZINE and also access and update your unique profile. Your subscription will enable you to access all areas of 007 MAGAZINE OnLine, including special reports & supplements, together with all the other varied content of the ever-growing 007 MAGAZINE Articles Archive area, and other great new features.

We are also introducing a £4.99 ($10/€8) monthly fee for the casual James Bond web-surfer, who may only wish to browse the ‘pay-to-view’ area before committing to an annual subscription.

Current subscribers who are still owed printed issues of 007 MAGAZINE will receive a FREE 12-month subscription to the new webzine when 007 MAGAZINE OnLine is launched in August. Those subscribers still owed printed magazines will be contacted by letter and informed how to claim their free subscription.

We thank all our subscribers for their loyal support over the last 26 years and hope you’ll continue to support 007 MAGAZINE in its new 21st Century incarnation, to infinity – and beyond!

Graham Rye
Editor, Designer, Photographer, Publisher
007 MAGAZINE & Archive Limited

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For Immediate Release
5th January 2005


007 MAGAZINE splits from
‘The James Bond International Fan Club Limited’

After two years under the umbrella of the ‘The James Bond International Fan Club Limited’, Graham Rye, 007 MAGAZINE editor & publisher, and Creative Director of the original ‘The James Bond 007 International Fan Club & Archive’ has formally decided to part company with the new club organised by Yorkshire businessman and Bond fan David Black.
    “Unfortunately during the two years 007 MAGAZINE has been supplied to David Black’s new organisation nothing has been done by his new limited company to promote or market the new club in any way,” revealed a disappointed Rye. “Our financial agreement had also become unsatisfactory, so I felt a New Year was the right time to break away and steer 007 MAGAZINE back in a more professional direction in order to dramatically increase its circulation, while also protecting its strongly independent editorial policy of writing and picturing whatever we want whenever we want – which is what our readers have come to expect.”
    “Obviously 007 MAGAZINE and David Black’s proposed new JBIFC publication will be in direct competition, and no doubt this will prove an entertaining ‘battle of the Bond mags’ for Bond observers everywhere.”
    ‘The James Bond International Fan Club Limited’ under the Chairmanship of David Black is not connected in any way with ‘The James Bond 007 International Fan Club & Archive’, or its publications and events, published and organised from 1979 to 2001 by Graham Rye and his team and contributors.