Day: March 4, 2007

Lost Tomb of Jesus?

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I admit that I didn’t watch the show closely, but every time I glanced at it I heard the word “could” repeated, as in:

  • Could the grouping of these names be more than mere coincidence?
  • Could this be the tomb of the family of Jesus?
  • Could Jesus and Mary Magdalene have been married and had a son?

Yesterday, I said An Inconvenient Truth presents a compelling case for its assertions. Tonight, in The Lost Tomb of Jesus, what I heard was pure speculation, based on some shaky assumptions.

The tone of the show reminded me of “In Search Of…”, the 70’s TV series narrated by Leonard Nimoy. The presentation is a lot slicker today, of course, but as far as I’m concerned James Cameron and his associates may as well be asking, “Could we be descended from alien astronauts, who came to Earth millions of years ago?”

It’s the same, old tactic that’s employed by Fox news when the facts aren’t there to support the assertion. “Hey, we’re just asking the questions. You decide for yourself.”

The best thing that could have happened to these guys was having the chamber sealed up, as shown in the video clip. I wouldn’t be surprised if they staged the scene where they were told to stop. Because now it seems there’s talk about opening the chamber to the public. Could the Lost Tomb of Jesus be a tourist attraction? Click here.

More James Bond Music

Posting the Goldfinger theme put me in a James Bond mood. On the audio player is the classic James Bond theme by Monty Norman (disputed by John Barry), taken from the same LP mentioned previously. For me this just edges out Henry Mancini’s famous theme for Peter Gunn.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAR07/JamesBond.mp3]

Daniela Bianci

The most adult and, I think, best James Bond movie is From Russia With Love. Some of the credit for that goes to the presence of the stunning Daniela Bianchi, who was only 20 when the movie was filmed.

Bianchi’s English wasn’t the best, so her voice was dubbed by the English stage actress Barbara Jefford. But no matter. Over 30 years before that, Hitchcock had Joan Barry dub the voice of German actress Anny Ondra, for Blackmail, the first talkie in England.

The From Russia With Love theme song was sung by Matt Monro. A couple of years later they probably would have given this track to Andy Williams to record.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAR07/FromRussia.mp3]

When the movie Thunderball was being released, the Aston-Martin DB5 that had been been introduced in Goldfinger made an appearance at the Caldor in Norwalk CT. Caldor, a defunct discount chain store, was headquartered in Norwalk. I’m not much of a car person, but that is one beautiful piece of machinery, and I made my father take me back for a second viewing.

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Here’s another often-heard Bond piece of music. It’s called simply “007”.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAR07/007.mp3]