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They werelike, 鈥淲e鈥檝e been waiting for you guys to shoot this scene, it鈥檚 going to behilarious!鈥?Literally everybody came to watch that day. It was prettyembarrassing, but halfway through the day I just had my top off and you just donot care after a certain amount of time when you鈥檙e walking around in your bra.Playboy.com: Doyou remember your first Playboy Magazine?MacIsaac: I wastrying to think of this, because I was reading some other Femme on Fire interviews, and as I was sitting here I realized I never read a Playboy! I guess growing up with allgirls it wasn鈥檛 like our brother was ever going to have it under his bed. But Ifeel like such a nerd saying that! I never held a Playboy in my hands.Playboy.com: Well,this issue we have one of the girls from BoardwalkEmpire on the cover, so you can pick one up and say that you really likethe show or something, so there鈥檚 your excuse! MacIsaac: Yeah, Ican tell everyone that it鈥檚 research! Header photo by: Adam Fedderly
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Tonight: Sean Connery as Secret Agent 007, with Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord in Dr. No. Ian Fleming introduced James Bond to a waiting world in the novel, Casino Royale, in 1953—the same year that I published the first issue of Playboy.007 was conceived by Fleming while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye, in 1952. Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is an agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly referred to as MI6. The “007” means he is “licensed to kill.”The “James Bond” name came from an American ornithologist. He was a Caribbean bird expert who wrote the definitive guidebook, Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a bird watcher, had a copy of Bond’s book at Goldeneye.Of the name, Fleming once said in an interview, “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find. … Exotic things could happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.”Most researchers agree that Bond is a romanticized version of Fleming, himself a jet-setting womanizer. Both Fleming and the fictional Bond attended the same schools, preferred the same food and drink, shared the same notions of a perfect woman and had similar career aspirations. (Both rising to the rank of commander in Naval Intelligence.)Some also have suggested that Bond’s sophisticated persona was inspired by a young Hoagy Carmichael, author of Stardust and the man who lived across the street from the Playboy Mansion in the 1940s. In Casino Royale, the femme fatale Vesper Lynd remarks, “Bond reminds me of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless about him.” And in Moonraker (the book), Special Branch officer Gala Brand thinks to herself that Bond is “certainly good looking. He’s rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold.”Fleming wrote 14 James Bond books, one a year, published between 1953 and 1966. 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Because it began as a teleplay, with but one major location—Jamaica—Dr. No seemed to present the least difficulties in adapting the property for the screen.Dr. No was the sixth Bond novel, published in 1958. Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu was one of the obvious inspirations for the character. Fleming’s original choice to play Dr. No was his cousin, Christopher Lee. Lee had a conflict, but later did appear as Bond’s nemesis in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). He also played Fu Manchu in several Hammer films.Fleming next asked Noel Coward to consider playing the role. Coward sent a telegram in response that read: “Dr. No? No! No! No!” He didn’t want to wear metal hands.Max Von Sydow said no to the role so that he could play Jesus Christ in George Steven’s The Greatest Story Ever Told instead.Producer Cubby Broccoli insisted on an English director, because he felt only the English could understand the cultivated English background of Bond.Ken Hughes, Guy Green and Guy Hamilton (who later directed Goldfinger) all turned down the assignment. Terence Young accepted the challenge—his first of three Bond films.Fleming’s first choice for Bond was Roger Moore, and Broccoli liked him too. But Moore was committed to the Saint series on TV. (Moore ended up playing the role in the 1970s, when Connery decided he’d had enough.)Others considered for that first Bond film: David Niven (who played a parody of the part in the spoof of Casino Royale five years later), Patrick McGoohan, who turned down the role on moral grounds (but later starred in Secret Agent, a TV series inspired by 007), Trevor Howard, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Steve Reeves and Richard Johnson (who would later play Bulldog Drummond in Deadlier Than the Male, hang out at the Mansion and marry Kim Novak).The producers, Broccoli and partner Albert Saltzman, used Hitchcock’s North By Northwest (1959) for their inspiration for this film. A good choice!Its stars were also offered roles in the Bond franchise. Cary Grant actually considered the role, but wouldn’t agree to more than one film in the series. James Mason wouldn’t commit to more than two. Not good enough! The producers also looked at several unknown English actors. 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Marlon Brando got her an agent and a screen test at Paramount, but she had trouble with English and married John Derek, who promptly shot her for Playboy—first as a Show Business Beauty and then in an unforgettable nude 10-page pictorial.Two weeks before filming on Dr. No was to begin, the producers happened to see Derek’s photos of his wife. They sought to sign her without even meeting her! She really wasn’t interested in resuming her acting career, but Kirk Douglas read the script and advised the Dereks to accept the part. Andress was paid $1,000 per week for six weeks work.Dr. No was shot from January 16 through March 30, 1962, in London and Jamaica. The interiors were shot at Pinewood Studios. When costs exceeded $1.1 million United Artists threatened to abandon the production. No pre-title sequence was filmed, and this remains the only Bond film without one.The picture premiered in London on October 5, 1962. Because of the political climate following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the release in America was delayed until May 8, 1963. The only award the film earned was a nomination for Andress as “Most Promising Female Newcomer” from the Golden Globes.The worldwide gross for Dr. No was $59.6 million, but only $16 million came from the U.S. For whatever reason, the stylish combination of sex and violence, campy humor, exotic locations and unlikely gadgetry appealed disproportionately to overseas audiences—at least initially.The filmmakers were so confident they had a hit on their hands that the final credit on Dr. No reads: “James Bond will be back in From Russia with Love!” And was he ever!So now, the start of the James Bond phenomenon: Dr. No.
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The woman who puts the bang in The Big Bang Theory talks about sexy nerds, dating your co-stars and going to the prom with Ashley TisdaleQ1PLAYBOY:We know you best for starring on two hit TV series that cast you as a hot, funny girl who can twist almost any guy around her little finger. On 8 Simple Rules you were John Ritter’s teen--heartbreaker daughter. On The Big Bang Theory you’re the sexy neighbor of Sheldon and Leonard, two brainy, -socially inept, lovable sci-fi-addicted mathematicians who worship you. Does art imitate life?CUOCO: From what I’ve been told and what I’ve observed, men seem to be intimidated by me. So I have to take the reins. I’m a bitch—like, the boldest person ever—so I’ll go up to anybody and say, “You’re absolutely friggin’ adorable. Let’s go out.” They usually look at me with giant scared Ren and Stimpy eyes. But what’s the worst that can happen if I ask them? I have to be honest; I don’t think they’re going to say no.Q2PLAYBOY:You and your co-stars were on a panel at this year’s Comic-Con. Did any real-life Sheldons or Leonards approach you, thinking they had a shot?CUOCO: People ask me, since I’m on a nerd show, if I like nerds. Obviously, I don’t have a high IQ, but I’ve always liked nerds and quirky guys. At Comic-Con I told my cast mates, “I’m gonna find my future husband here.” I want a guy who has balls enough to come up to me and be as bold as I am. It’s sexy if a guy’s in control. The jock type lasts only so long, though. I go for the musician or the writer every time, but I’m deeply, truly attracted to the funny guy. I’m always like, “Can you make me laugh? Because I will make you laugh.”Q3PLAYBOY:What if he’s funnier than you?CUOCO: I don’t want him to be funnier than me, but the men I’ve dated have all been pretty silly. The moderator for our Comic-Con panel was Chris Hardwick, and I had the biggest crush on him. The Big Bang guys all stared at me, like, “What the hell? You’re the strangest girl.” But Chris was so funny, which I find sexy. And Seth MacFarlane? Huge crush.Q4PLAYBOY:It’s not like Big Bang was a big old hit right out of the gate. The ratings weren’t great, <a href=http://herveldresses.com>herve leger dresses online</a> and the critics didn’t pile on the praise.CUOCO: The first season of any show, let’s be honest, can suck. Look back at the first season of Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier. We had eight episodes filmed for our first season, and when the writers’ strike happened we thought we were done for. But they kept airing those eight shows. And the most genius thing was they <a href=http://herveldresses.com>herve leger dresses</a> started showing us on planes, where you’re stuck unless you hate something so much you want to jump off. To get another chance, to keep getting picked up, is a dream come true. It doesn’t happen much anymore.Q5PLAYBOY:After working so closely for four years, when do you and your fellow actors get on one another’s nerves the most?CUOCO: When you do a series, you’re in a family. We fight, we bicker, but every Tuesday night when we film, the five of us get into a little circle—even when we don’t want to—and say, “I love you.” I try to keep everyone together because they get a little scatterbrained. I feel like <a href=http://coachfactoryhandbagoutlet2u.webs.com/>coach factory online outlet</a> Wendy to the Lost Boys. I tell them, “Ten years from now, we’re not going to be here and we’ll wish we were. These little moments are important.”Q6PLAYBOY: So far, your character has bedded two of the show’s rocket-scientist types. 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I would rather stick a pencil in my eyeball than be naked.Q9PLAYBOY:When you were growing up, what was your role in the family Cuoco?CUOCO: My mom is Irish, and my dad and the majority of the family are Italian, so there’s lots of food, insanity and yelling. I have a sister who is three years younger than I am, and she, my parents and I were just watching home videos. Even at the age of five, there I am like a friggin’ idiot, dancing around and getting in everyone’s way. My dad was like, “Kaley, back up, back up,” but you couldn’t get my big fat face out of the camera. I couldn’t get enough attention.Q10PLAYBOY:How did you most shame the family name growing up?CUOCO: For all the noise in our house, I come from a conservative family with a lot of values and dinner at the table every night. I was such a goody two-shoes. I never touched a drug in my life. I was afraid to drink before I was 21, and though I did drink a little, I had constant guilt in my head. 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