93-422: Diamonds Are Forever may refer to: Diamonds Are Forever (novel) , a 1956 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (film) , a 1971 film adapted from the novel Diamonds Are Forever (soundtrack) , a soundtrack album or its title song The Remix Album...Diamonds Are Forever , a 2000 remix album by Shirley Bassey Diamonds Are Forever ,
186-489: A Studillac —a Studebaker with a powerful Cadillac engine. According to Henry Chancellor , "the speed and comfort of it impressed Ian, and he shamelessly appropriated this car" for the book. Woodward was killed by his wife shortly afterwards—she claimed she mistook him for a prowler—and when Diamonds Are Forever was published, it was dedicated to Bryce, Cuneo and "the memory of W. W. Jr., at Saratoga, 1954 and 55". Fleming also travelled to Los Angeles with Cuneo, visiting
279-542: A fortnight later. The Press Complaints Commission described the article as a "serious error of judgement" and said, "Although the editor had taken steps to resolve the complaint, and rightly published an apology, the breach of the Code was so serious that no apology could remedy it". The Daily Express gained a reputation for printing conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales as front-page news. The Independent and The Guardian in 2006 both published
372-471: A murder-suicide . Tiffany subsequently informs Bond of the details of the pipeline. The story begins in Africa where a dentist bribes miners to smuggle diamonds in their mouths; he extracts the gems during routine appointments. From there, the dentist takes the diamonds to a rendezvous with a German helicopter pilot. Eventually the diamonds go to Paris and then on to London. There, after telephone instructions from
465-421: A 1999 album by Funky Diamonds Diamonds Are Forever , a 2006 album by Legs Diamond Diamonds Are Forever , a 2011 mixtape by Trina "Diamonds Are Forever", a song by Franck Pourcel from Strictly Breaks Volume 11 "Diamonds Are Forever", a song from the musical Diamonds "Diamonds Are Forever", a song by Sabrina Carpenter from Singular: Act I See also [ edit ] A Diamond
558-590: A 66.6% control of the character. The Express retains minority interest of one-third plus the right to publish Rupert Bear stories in certain Express publications. In 2000, Express Newspapers was bought by Richard Desmond, publisher of celebrity magazine OK! , for £125 million. Controversy surrounded the deal since Desmond also owned softcore pornography magazines. As a result, many staff left, including editor Rosie Boycott and columnist Peter Hitchens . Hitchens moved to The Mail on Sunday , saying working for
651-581: A ban on the sale of the paper. This ban was overturned in March 2016, following a student vote. UKIP Leader Nigel Farage declared that he had signed the "Crusade" petition, and urged others to do the same. Romanian politician Cătălin Ivan expressed "outrage" at the campaign. In a statement released by The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on 24 April 2015,
744-404: A constant level of excitement" as a result. According to Benson the main theme of Diamonds Are Forever is expressed in the title, with the permanency of the gemstones held in contrast to other aspects of the story, particularly love and life. Towards the end of the novel Fleming uses the lines "Death is forever. But so are diamonds", and Benson sees the gems as a metaphor for death and Bond as
837-481: A contact known as ABC, Tiffany meets a person who explains how the diamonds will be smuggled to New York City. After returning to London—where Tiffany moves into Bond's flat—Bond flies to Freetown in Sierra Leone, and then to the next diamond rendezvous. With the collapse of the rest of the pipeline, Jack Spang (who turns out to be ABC) shuts down his diamond-smuggling pipeline by killing its participants. Spang himself
930-502: A day." On completion Fleming wrote to his friend Hilary Bray: I baked a fresh cake in Jamaica this year which I think has finally exhausted my inventiveness as it contains every single method of escape and every variety of suspenseful action that I had omitted from my previous books—in fact everything except the kitchen sink, and if you can think up a good plot involving kitchen sinks, please send it along speedily. He returned to London with
1023-531: A deal worth £126.7 million. To coincide with the purchase the Trinity Mirror group changed its name to Reach . Hugh Whittow resigned as editor and Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief soon after the purchase. The Daily Express endorsed Liz Truss in the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election . In 2023, Reach launched a US version of the Express, called the-express.com. It
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#17328524309881116-406: A front-page article critical of survivors of the 1996 Dunblane massacre , entitled "Anniversary Shame of Dunblane Survivors". The article criticised the 18-year-old survivors for posting "shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the internet", revealing that they drank alcohol, made rude gestures and talked about their sex lives. The article provoked complaints, leading to a front-page apology
1209-670: A journalistic style, neat, clean, spare and never pretentious". Writing in The New York Times , Anthony Boucher —described by Fleming's biographer John Pearson as "throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man" —was mixed in his review, thinking that "Mr. Fleming's handling of America and Americans is well above the British average", although he felt that "the narrative is loose-jointed and weakly resolved", while Bond resolves his assignments "more by muscles and luck than by any sign of operative intelligence". Diamonds Are Forever
1302-417: A meeting with Sir Percy Sillitoe , the ex-head of MI5 , then working in a security capacity for the diamond-trading company De Beers . The material Fleming gathered was used in both Diamonds Are Forever and The Diamond Smugglers , a non-fiction book published in 1957. After Fleming's friend, Sir William Stephenson , sent him a magazine article about the spa town of Saratoga Springs, Fleming flew to
1395-411: A passage in which a scorpion hunts and eats its prey, and is subsequently killed by one of the diamond couriers. Eco sees this "cleverly presented" beginning as similar to the opening of a film, remarking that "Fleming abounds in such passages of high technical skill". When the writer William Plomer was proof-reading the manuscript he saw literary merit, and wrote to Fleming that the passages relating to
1488-719: A previous cost-cutting exercise triggered the first 24-hour national press strike in the UK for 18 years. In late August 2009 came plans for a further 70 redundancies, affecting journalists across Express Newspapers (including the Daily and Sunday Express , the Daily Star , and the Daily Star Sunday ). In August 2009, the Advertising Standards Authority criticised the company for advertorials as features alongside adverts for
1581-619: A selection of then recent Express headlines on the topic. This practice was satirised in Private Eye as the Diana Express or the Di'ly Express , and has been attributed to Desmond's friendship with regular Eye target Mohamed Fayed . The articles regularly quoted Fayed with the newspaper describing its campaign as "Our relentless crusade for the truth". In 2006 and 2007, these front-page stories consistently appeared on Mondays, and ended only when
1674-616: A settlement at the High Court of Justice , the newspapers ran a front-page apology to the McCanns on 19 March 2008, another apology on the front of the Sunday editions of 23 March and a statement of apology at the High Court. The newspapers also agreed to pay costs and damages, which the McCanns said they would use to fund the search for their daughter. Guardian media commentator Roy Greenslade said it
1767-528: A smuggling ring transporting diamonds from mines in the Crown colony of Sierra Leone to the United States. Bond must infiltrate the smugglers' pipeline to uncover those responsible. Using the identity of "Peter Franks", a country house burglar turned diamond smuggler, he meets Tiffany Case , an attractive gang member who has developed an antipathy towards men after being gang-raped as a teenager. Bond discovers that
1860-596: A specially commissioned Art Deco building. Under Beaverbrook, the paper set newspaper sales records several times throughout the 1930s. Its success was partly due to aggressive marketing campaign and a circulation war with other populist newspapers. Arthur Christiansen became editor in October 1933. Under his direction sales climbed from two million in 1936 to four million in 1949. He retired in 1957. The paper also featured Alfred Bestall 's Rupert Bear cartoon and satirical cartoons by Carl Giles which it began publishing in
1953-630: Is Forever , an advertising slogan of De Beers " Diamonds from Sierra Leone ", a 2005 song by Kanye West, which samples the Shirley Bassey recording of "Diamonds Are Forever" "Diamonds Aren't Forever", a song by Bring Me the Horizon from Suicide Season Diamonds Are Forever, So Are Morals , 2022 book about the Indian entrepreneur Govind Dholakia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
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#17328524309882046-561: Is a "frequent offender" which pays little heed to the ASA's criticisms. In May 2010, Desmond announced a commitment of £100 million over five years to buy new equipment for the printing plants, beginning with the immediate purchase of four new presses, amid industry rumours that he was going to establish a printing plant at Luton. On 31 December 2010, the Express, with all the media titles in Desmond's Northern & Shell group, were excluded from
2139-463: Is available at UK Press Online. In September 2017, Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror announced its interest in buying all of Express Newspapers from Desmond. The Financial Times called it potentially the biggest change in the British newspaper industry for a decade. In February 2018, Trinity Mirror acquired the Daily Express , and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in
2232-789: Is based in New York City. The printing press of the Sunday Express was first started by Lady Diana Manners on 29 December 1918. It was edited by Michael Booker from 2018 to 2021 when he left for GB News . Its circulation in December 2022 was 153,377. Suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams was arrested in 1956, accused of murdering up to 400 wealthy patients in Eastbourne . The press, "egged on by police leaks, unanimously declared Adams guilty," except for Percy Hoskins , chief crime reporter for
2325-508: Is killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter. By mid 1954 the author Ian Fleming had published two novels— Casino Royale (1953) and Live and Let Die (1954)—and had a third, Moonraker , being edited and prepared for production. That year he read a story in The Sunday Times about diamond smuggling from Sierra Leone. He considered this story as the possible basis for a new novel and, through an old school friend, he engineered
2418-492: Is the fourth novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond . Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1956. The story centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in
2511-528: Is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc . It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson . Its sister paper, the Sunday Express , was launched in 1918. In June 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 201,608. Under the ownership of Lord Beaverbrook , the Express rose to become the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world, going from 2 million in
2604-409: Is worth noting, and recommending: he does not start indulging in his wilder fantasies until he has laid down a foundation of factual description." Elements of a review by Raymond Chandler for The Sunday Times were used as advertising for the novel; Chandler wrote that it was "about the nicest piece of book-making in this type of literature which I have seen for a long time ... Mr. Fleming writes
2697-454: The Express led with "SPIES COVER UP DIANA 'MURDER'". According to The Independent "The Diana stories appear on Mondays because Sunday is often a quiet day." In February and March 2010, the paper returned to featuring Diana stories on the front page on Mondays. In September 2013, following an allegation raised by the estranged wife of an SAS operative, the Daily Express returned to running daily Princess Diana cover stories. In
2790-412: The Express said "a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested that the couple caused the death of their missing daughter Madeleine and then covered it up. We acknowledge that there is no evidence whatsoever to support this theory and that Kate and Gerry are completely innocent of any involvement in their daughter's disappearance." This was followed in October by an apology and payout (forwarded to
2883-430: The Express . Hoskins was adamant that Adams was a naive doctor prosecuted by an overzealous detective, Herbert Hannam , whom Hoskins disliked from previous cases. The Express , under Hoskins's direction, was the only major paper to defend Adams, causing Lord Beaverbrook to question Hoskins's stance. Adams was cleared in 1957 of the murder of Edith Alice Morrell (a second count was withdrawn controversially). After
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2976-567: The House of Commons for running "a sustained vendetta" against the British Royal Family in the Express titles. In the same month, the Duke of Edinburgh described the Express as "a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious paper." At the height of Beaverbrook's control, in 1948, he told a Royal Commission on the press that he ran his papers "purely for
3069-615: The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination * (both of which have been ratified by the UK, as well as by all other EU countries), were rooted in the desire to outlaw the type of anti-Semitic and other racially based hate speech used by the Nazi media during the 1930s". Appearing in April 2018 before Parliament 's Home Affairs Select Committee , which
3162-637: The Labour Party , and the 2015 general election when it backed the UK Independence Party , the newspaper has declared its support for the Conservative Party at every general election since World War II . In 2011, when the newspaper first endorsed UKIP, it became one of the first media outlets in the United Kingdom to demand a withdrawal from the European Union . "Crusade for Freedom"
3255-675: The Los Angeles Police Intelligence headquarters, where they met Captain James Hamilton, who provided Fleming with information on the Mafia organisation in the US. From Los Angeles Fleming travelled to Las Vegas, where he stayed at the Sands Hotel ; he interviewed the hotel owner, Jack Entratter , where he learnt the background to the security systems and methods of cheating that he used in
3348-572: The Press Complaints Commission after withholding payment. Lord Black , chairman of PressBof , the PCC's parent organisation, called this "a deeply regrettable decision". According to Press Gazette , in December 2016 circulation figures showed gross sales of the Daily Mail were 1,491,264 compared to 391,626 for the Daily Express . The full run of the Daily Express has been digitised and
3441-463: The Suez Crisis ; Eden's stay was much reported in the British press. The book received boosts in sales in 1962 when Eon Productions adapted Dr. No for the cinema, and in 1971 when Diamonds Are Forever was produced for the big screen. In February 1958 Pan Books published a paperback version of the novel in the UK, which sold 68,000 copies before the end of the year. Since its initial publication
3534-616: The novel series as a whole. Chancellor put the events of Diamonds Are Forever in 1954; Griswold is more precise, and considers the story to have taken place in July and August 1953. Fleming had previously travelled to the US on the RMS Queen Elizabeth ; the experience provided background information for the final four chapters of the novel. His trip had included a railway journey on the Super Chief , during which he and Cuneo had visited
3627-502: The "messenger of death". The journalist and author Christopher Hitchens observes that "the central paradox of the classic Bond stories is that, although superficially devoted to the Anglo-American war against communism, they are full of contempt and resentment for America and Americans"; Benson sees that Diamonds Are Forever contains examples of Fleming's feelings of superiority towards American culture, including his description of
3720-412: The 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s. It was acquired by Richard Desmond 's company Northern & Shell in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. In February 2018 Trinity Mirror acquired the Daily Express , and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in a deal worth £126.7 million. To coincide with the purchase the Trinity Mirror group changed
3813-744: The 1940s. On 24 March 1933, a front-page headline, "Judea Declares War on Germany" (because of the Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 ), was published. During the late 1930s, the paper advocated the appeasement policies of Neville Chamberlain 's National Government , due to the influence of Lord Beaverbrook. On 7 August 1939, the front-page headline was "NO WAR THIS YEAR". Less than a month later, Britain and France were at war with Nazi Germany following its invasion of Poland . The front page, floating in dirty water, later featured in In Which We Serve . The ruralist and fascist author Henry Williamson wrote for
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3906-598: The 2006 edition of Diamonds Are Forever describes Bond as a "surprisingly ... complex" character who, in contrast with the cinematic representation, is "nothing other than human. ... Fleming's Bond makes mistakes and pays for them. He feels pain and regret." The novelist Raymond Benson —who later wrote a series of Bond novels—writes that the character develops in Diamonds Are Forever , building on Fleming's characterisation in his previous three novels. This growth arises through Bond's burgeoning relationship with
3999-601: The Golden Gun . As with several others of his works, Fleming appropriated the names of people he knew for the story's characters. The name of one of Fleming's two travelling companions from the US, Ernest Cuneo, was used as Ernie Cureo, Bond's taxi-driving ally in Las Vegas, and one of the homosexual villains, "Boofy" Kidd, was named after one of Fleming's close friends—and a relative of his wife— Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran , known to his friends as "Boofy". Arran, an advocate of
4092-583: The PCC. The chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance , which manages PCC funds, described Express Newspapers as a "rogue publisher". The Express group lost prominent libel cases in 2008–2009; it paid damages to people involved in the Madeleine McCann case (see below), a member of the Muslim Council of Britain , footballer Marco Materazzi , and sports agent Willie McKay . The losses led
4185-589: The US in August 1954, where he met his friends Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo ; the three travelled to the town in New York State. There, Fleming and Cuneo visited a mud-bath: en route to an up-market establishment they took the wrong directions and ended up at a run-down outlet, which became the inspiration for the Acme Mud and Sulphur Baths scene in the book. Fleming met the rich socialite, William Woodward, Jr. , who drove
4278-592: The benefits in keeping the case in the public eye, but said coverage needed to be toned down since daily headlines were not necessarily helpful. In March 2008, the McCanns launched a libel suit against the Daily Express and the Daily Star , as well as their Sunday equivalents, following their coverage. The action concerned more than 100 stories across the four newspapers, which accused the McCanns of causing and covering up their daughter's death. Express Newspapers pulled all references to Madeleine from its websites. In
4371-468: The book has been issued in numerous hardback and paperback editions, translated into several languages and has never been out of print. In 2023 Ian Fleming Publications—the company that administers all Fleming's literary works—had the Bond series edited as part of a sensitivity review to remove or reword some racial or ethnic descriptors. The rerelease of the series was for the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale ,
4464-695: The book's main female character, Tiffany Case. He falls in love; the first time he has done so since Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale . According to Benson, Tiffany is portrayed as tough, but lonely and insecure, and "is Fleming's first fully developed female character." The cultural historians Janet Woollacott and Tony Bennett write that many of the main female characters in Fleming's novels are uncommon, and Tiffany—along with Pussy Galore from Goldfinger and Honeychile Rider from Dr. No —has been "damaged ... sexually" having previously been raped. The effect of
4557-521: The cab to meet the driver and engineer, and an excursion on the 20th Century Limited , both of which gave information Fleming used for Spang's train, the Cannonball . Fleming had a long-standing interest in trains and following his involvement in a near-fatal crash associated them with danger. In addition to Diamonds Are Forever , he used them in Live and Let Die , From Russia, with Love and The Man with
4650-456: The case, Beaverbrook phoned Hoskins and said: "Two people were acquitted today", meaning Hoskins as well. The Express carried an exclusive interview with Adams, whom Hoskins interviewed in a safe house away from other newspapers. According to archives released in 2003, Adams was thought by police to have killed 163 patients. On 8 March 2009, the Scottish edition of the Sunday Express published
4743-555: The company's own presses. Johnston Press has a five-year deal, begun in March 2015, to print the northern editions of the Daily Express , Daily Star , Sunday Express and the Daily Star Sunday at its Dinnington site in Sheffield. The Scottish edition is printed by facsimile in Glasgow by contract printers, the London editions at Westferry Printers. In March 1962, Beaverbrook was attacked in
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#17328524309884836-481: The completed 183-page typescript in March that year; he had earlier settled on a title, which he based on an advertisement slogan "A Diamond is Forever" in the American edition of Vogue . Although Fleming provides no dates within his novels, John Griswold and Henry Chancellor—both of whom have written books on behalf of Ian Fleming Publications —have identified different timelines based on events and situations within
4929-500: The first Bond novel. Julian Symons , reviewing Diamonds Are Forever in The Times Literary Supplement , thought that Fleming had some enviable qualities as a writer, including "a fine eye for places ... an ability to convey his own interest in the mechanics of gambling and an air of knowledgeableness". Symons also saw defects in Fleming's style, including "his inability to write convincing dialogue". For Symons,
5022-521: The fund again) to a group who had become known as the " Tapas Seven " in relation to the case. In 2013, the paper launched a "crusade" against new European Union rules on migrants from Bulgaria and Romania, inviting readers to sign a petition against lifting restrictions on immigration. The front page on Thursday 31 October declared: "Britain is full and fed up. Today join your Daily Express Crusade to stop new flood of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants". The Aberystwyth University Student Union announced
5115-522: The gangsters to Bond's normal adversaries, identifies them as "merely incompetent gunsels" when compared with the British agent, who can eliminate them with relative ease. The essayist Umberto Eco sees the Spangs as being a forerunner of the SPECTRE organisation Fleming uses in his later novels. Kingsley Amis , who later wrote a Bond novel, considered that there was "no decent villain", while Eco judges three of
5208-468: The hotel Bond finally receives payment through a rigged blackjack game where the dealer is Tiffany. After winning the money he is owed he disobeys his orders from Tree by continuing to gamble in the casino and wins heavily. Spang suspects that Bond may be a 'plant' and has him captured and tortured at Spectreville. With Tiffany's help he escapes from Spectreville aboard a railway push-car with Seraffimo Spang in pursuit aboard an old Western train. Bond changes
5301-633: The jockey to ensure the failure of the plot to rig the race, and asks Bond to make the pay-off. When he goes to make the payment, he witnesses two homosexual thugs, Wint and Kidd , attack the jockey. Bond calls Tree to enquire further about the payment of his fee and is told to go to the Tiara Hotel in Las Vegas. The Tiara is owned by Seraffimo Spang and operates as the headquarters of the Spangled Mob. Spang also owns an old Western ghost town, named Spectreville, restored to be his own private holiday retreat. At
5394-587: The media commentator Roy Greenslade to conclude that Express Newspapers (which also publishes the Star titles) paid more in libel damages over that period than any other newspaper group. Although most of the individual amounts paid were not disclosed, the total damages were recorded at £1,570,000. Greenslade characterised Desmond as a "rogue proprietor". In late 2008, Express Newspapers began cutting 80 jobs to reduce costs by £2.5 million; however, too few staff were willing to take voluntary redundancy. In early 2008,
5487-465: The mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way Bond meets and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany Case . Much of Fleming's background research formed the basis for his non-fiction 1957 book The Diamond Smugglers . Diamonds Are Forever deals with international travel, marriage and the transitory nature of life. As with Fleming's previous novels, Diamonds Are Forever received broadly positive reviews at
5580-474: The name of the company to Reach . Hugh Whittow resigned as editor and Gary Jones took over as editor-in-chief soon after the purchase. The paper's editorial stances have often been seen as aligned to Euroscepticism and supportive of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and other right-wing factions including the European Research Group (ERG) of the Conservative Party . The Daily Express
5673-556: The new owner was a moral conflict of interest since he had always attacked the pornographic magazines that Desmond published. Despite their divergent politics, Desmond respected Hitchens. In 2007, Express Newspapers left the National Publishers Association due to unpaid fees. Since payments to the NPA fund the Press Complaints Commission , it is possible that the Express and its sister papers could cease being regulated by
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#17328524309885766-412: The novel to be "rich in characterization". Benson analyses Fleming's writing style and identifies what he describes as the "Fleming Sweep": a stylistic point that sweeps the reader from one chapter to another using 'hooks' at the end of chapters to heighten tension and pull the reader into the next: Benson feels that the sweep in Diamonds Are Forever was "at full force" in the novel, which "maintain[s]
5859-496: The novel was Fleming's "weakest book, a heavily padded story about diamond smuggling", where "the exciting passages are few". Milward Kennedy of The Manchester Guardian , thought that Fleming was "determined to be as tough as Chandler, if a little less lifelike", while Maurice Richardson , in The Observer , considered Bond "one of the most cunningly synthesised heroes in crime-fiction". Richardson wrote how "Fleming's method
5952-573: The novel. Fleming wrote Diamonds Are Forever at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica in January and February 1955. He followed his usual practice, which he later outlined in Books and Bookmen magazine, in which he said: "I write for about three hours in the morning ... and I do another hour's work between six and seven in the evening. I never correct anything and I never go back to see what I have written ... By following my formula, you write 2,000 words
6045-412: The other." Lycett opines that the addition was because of the state of Fleming's own marriage which was going through a bad time. Diamonds Are Forever was published on 26 March 1956 by Jonathan Cape with a cover designed by Pat Marriott. As with the three previous Bond books, the first edition of 12,500 copies sold out quickly; the US edition was published in October 1956 by Macmillan . The novel
6138-415: The paper focused instead on the Madeleine McCann story (see below). Even on 7 July 2006, the anniversary of the London bombings (used by most other newspapers to publish commemorations) the front page was given over to Diana. This tendency was also mocked on Have I Got News for You when on 6 November 2006, the day other papers reported the death sentence given to Saddam Hussein on their front pages,
6231-440: The paper on many occasions over a span of half a century. He also wrote for the Sunday Express at the beginning of his career. In 1938, the publication moved to the Daily Express Building, Manchester (nicknamed the "Black Lubyianka"), designed by Owen Williams on the same site in Great Ancoats Street . It opened a similar building in Glasgow in 1936 in Albion Street. Glasgow printing ended in 1974 and Manchester in 1989 on
6324-560: The paper] purely for the purpose of making propaganda and with no other motive". Lord Beaverbrook , former owner (1948). Partially as a result of the rejuvenation of the Daily Mail under David English and the emergence of The Sun under Rupert Murdoch and editorship of Larry Lamb , average daily sales of the Express dropped below four million in 1967, below three million in 1975, and below two million in 1984. The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 (the Mail having done so six years earlier), and
6417-445: The pervading fantastic nature of Bond's world ... [is] bolted down to some sort of reality, or at least counter-balanced." Benson considers that in Diamonds Are Forever the use of detail is "rich and flamboyant" which allows an "interesting and amusing" description of the US. Benson considers a weakness of the book to be a lack of structural development, although this is compensated by character development; Kellerman also believes
6510-408: The purpose of making propaganda". The arrival of television , and the public's changing interests, took their toll on circulation, and following Beaverbrook's death in 1964, the paper's circulation declined for several years. During this period, the Express , practically alone among mainstream newspapers, was vehemently opposed to entry into what became the European Economic Community . "[I run
6603-469: The racing stables at Saratoga were "the work of a serious writer". Kellerman considers that "Fleming's depiction of Las Vegas in the '50s is wickedly spot on and one of the finest renditions of time and place in contemporary crime fiction. The story is robust and complex." Fleming used well-known brand names and everyday details to produce a sense of realism, which Amis called "the Fleming effect". Amis describes "the imaginative use of information, whereby
6696-550: The railway points and re-routes the train onto a dead-end, and shoots Spang before the resulting crash. Assisted by Leiter, Bond and Tiffany go via California to New York, where they board the RMS Queen Elizabeth to travel to London, a relationship developing between them as they go. Wint and Kidd observe their embarkation and follow them on board. They kidnap Tiffany, planning to kill her and throw her overboard. Bond rescues her and kills both gangsters; he makes it look like
6789-416: The relaxation of the British laws relating to homosexuality, heard about the use of his name before publication and complained to Fleming about it, but was ignored and the name was retained for the novel. During his trip to America Fleming had come across the name Spang—old German for "maker of shoe buckles"—which he appropriated for the villainous brothers. The writer Jonathan Kellerman 's introduction to
6882-465: The ring is operated by the Spangled Mob, a ruthless American gang run by the brothers Jack and Seraffimo Spang. He follows the trail from London to New York. To earn his fee for carrying the diamonds he is instructed by a gang member, Shady Tree, to bet on a rigged horse race in nearby Saratoga . There Bond meets his old friend Felix Leiter , a former CIA agent working at Pinkertons as a private detective investigating crooked horse racing. Leiter bribes
6975-522: The role of Bond twelve years later for Kevin McClory and Jack Schwartzman 's Never Say Never Again . In July 2015 Diamonds Are Forever was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 , starring Toby Stephens as Bond; it was directed by Martin Jarvis . Daily Express Defunct The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format . Published in London, it
7068-572: The same products. The ASA noted that the pieces were "always and uniquely favourable to the product featured in the ads and contained claims that have been or were likely to be prohibited in advertisements". In January 2010, the Daily Express was censured by the Advertising Standards Authority over a front-page promotion for "free" fireworks. This led to comment that the Express has become "the Ryanair of Fleet Street ", in that it
7161-486: The second half of 2007 the Daily Express gave a large coverage to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann . From 3 August 2007 to 10 November 2007, the Express dedicated at least part of the next 100 front pages to her. Of those, 82 used the headline to feature the details of the disappearance (often stylised by "MADELEINE" in red block capitals, plus a picture of the child). Though the family initially said some journalists may have "overstepped their mark" they acknowledged
7254-593: The sleaziness of Las Vegas. Amis, in his exploration of Bond in The James Bond Dossier , pointed out that Leiter is ... such a nonentity as a piece of characterization ... he, the American, takes orders from Bond, the Britisher, and that Bond is constantly doing better than he, showing himself, not braver or more devoted, but smarter, wittier, tougher, more resourceful, the incarnation of little old England. The cultural historian Jeremy Black points to
7347-586: The tabloid's name was mentioned in an accusation of producing hate speech , initially referring to an article in The Sun : "...To give just one glimpse of the scale of the problem, back in 2003 the Daily Express ran 22 negative front pages stories about asylum seekers and refugees in a single 31-day period" ... "..the High Commissioner noted that Article 20 of the ICCPR , as well as elements relating to hate speech in
7440-534: The theme of international travel in Diamonds Are Forever , which was still a novelty to most people in Britain at the time. This travel between a number of a locations exacerbates one of the problems identified by Black: that there was no centre to the story. In contrast to the other novels in the Bond canon, where Casino Royale had Royale, From Russia, with Love had Istanbul and Dr. No had Jamaica, Diamonds Are Forever had multiple locations and two villains and there
7533-526: The time of publication. The story was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper, first in an abridged, multi-part form and then as a comic strip. In 1971 it was adapted into the seventh Bond film in the series and was the last Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as Bond. The British Secret Service agent James Bond is sent on an assignment by his superior, M . Acting on information received from Special Branch , M tasks Bond with infiltrating
7626-510: The title Diamonds Are Forever . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diamonds_Are_Forever&oldid=1192676677 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Diamonds Are Forever (novel) Diamonds Are Forever
7719-478: The trauma has led to Tiffany working for the villain, which allows Bond to complete his mission, and align her to a more honest lifestyle. The literary analyst LeRoy L. Panek observes that Diamonds Are Forever along with Goldfinger and The Man with the Golden Gun have gangsters, rather than spies, as antagonists; the novel is the only one in the Bond canon without a connection to the Cold War . Panek, comparing
7812-444: The villains—the two Spang brothers and Winter—as physically abnormal, as many of Bond's adversaries are. Anthony Synnott, in his examination of aesthetics in the Bond novels, also considers that the gangster Michael "Shady" Tree fits into the abnormal category, as he is a red-haired hunchback with "a pair of china eyes that were so empty and motionless that they might have been hired by a taxidermist". Diamonds Are Forever opens with
7905-542: Was "no megalomaniac fervour, no weird self-obsession, at the dark centre of the plot". According to Fleming's biographer, Andrew Lycett , after the novel was completed, Fleming added four extra chapters "almost as an afterthought", detailing the events on the Queen Elizabeth . This introduced the question of marriage, and allowed Fleming to discuss matrimony through his characters, with Bond telling Case "Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from
7998-491: Was "unprecedented" for four major newspapers to offer front-page apologies but also said it was more than warranted given that the papers had committed "a substantial libel" that shamed the British press. Craig Silverman of Regret the Error , a blog that reports media errors, argued that given how many of the stories appeared on the front page, anything less than a front-page apology would have been "unacceptable." In its apology,
8091-476: Was adapted as a daily comic strip for the Daily Express newspaper, and syndicated around the world. The original adaptation ran from 10 August 1959 to 30 January 1960. The strip was written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky . The novel was loosely adapted in a 1971 film starring Sean Connery and directed by Guy Hamilton . Diamonds Are Forever was the final Bond film undertaken by Sean Connery with Eon Productions, although he returned to
8184-458: Was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers. In 1982, Trafalgar House spun off its publishing interests to a new company, Fleet Holdings, under Lord Matthews , but this succumbed to a hostile takeover by United Newspapers in 1985. Under United, the Express titles moved from Fleet Street to Blackfriars Road in 1989. Express Newspapers
8277-579: Was founded in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson , with the first issue appearing on 24 April 1900. Pearson lost his sight to glaucoma in 1913, and sold the title to the future Lord Beaverbrook in 1916. The Express was one of the first papers to place news instead of advertisements on its front page, and carried gossip, sport, and women's features. It was also the first in Britain to have a crossword puzzle . It began printing in Manchester in 1927. In 1931 it moved its London headquarters to 120 Fleet Street ,
8370-426: Was investigating the treatment of minority groups in print media, Daily Express editor Gary Jones said that he would be looking to change the tone of the paper. Jones said that he had found past pages of the newspaper "downright offensive," adding that they made him feel "very uncomfortable" and contributed to an " Islamophobic sentiment" in the media. With the exception of the 2001 general election when it backed
8463-515: Was serialised in The Daily Express newspaper from 12 April 1956 onwards —the first of Fleming's novels he had sold to the newspaper—which led to an overall rise in the sales of the novels. From November 1956 sales of Diamonds Are Forever , and Fleming's other novels, all rose following the visit of the Prime Minister , Sir Anthony Eden , to Fleming's Goldeneye estate to recuperate following
8556-535: Was sold to publisher Richard Desmond in 2000, and the names of the newspapers reverted to Daily Express and Sunday Express . In 2004, the newspaper moved to Lower Thames Street in the City of London . In February 2018, it moved into 1 Canada Square in Canary Wharf. On 31 October 2005, UK Media Group Entertainment Rights secured majority interest from the Daily Express for Rupert Bear . They paid £6 million for
8649-507: Was the newspaper's own campaign to give the people of the United Kingdom the opportunity to add their names to a petition addressed to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in favour of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union . Each edition of the 8 January 2011 issue had four cut-out vouchers where readers could sign the pledge and send them to the paper's HQ where the petition was being compiled; there were also further editions with
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