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Bond is Back: 007 Gadget Exhibit

Aired November 18, 2002 - 07:52   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Here's the good news and bad news about being James Bond. The bad news is, you spend your life with these evil masterminds trying to do you in. The good news is, you've got these Bond women. That's the good news. And the, toys -- you get all of these toys -- the gadgets that you get to play with.
Well, there's another Bond film, lest you have been in a coma. "Die Another Day" opens this week, and a new Bond exhibit in London is already thrilling Bond wannabes. It's a look at toys past and present.

AMERICAN MORNING'S own secret agent, Richard Quest, is joining us this morning from London.

And at the top of the list of new toys, I guess is they've traded in that rather pedestrian BMW for a much more sporty and cutting-edge Aston Martin.

Good morning, sir.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Shame about the German car going out the window, wasn't it? What a pity. Now another (UNINTELLIGIBLE) by the way do a Bond movie, the Aston Martin is back.

Jack, you know, we thought it (ph) was an easy business to kill people. You just shoot them in the chest. In a Bond movie, it's anything but. You saw him (UNINTELLIGIBLE) with a laser. You feed him to the sharks. You blow them up in space.

Killing James Bond, or trying to at least, has generated more gadgets than you could shake a stick at, and that's only if you drink (ph) a martini, shaken and not stirred.

As always in a Bond movie, they always start in M's (ph) office.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

QUEST (on camera): Yes, prime minister, immediately. Ah, 007, good of you to join us. The world is in trouble. We need your experience and your gadgets. Don't let us down.

Ms. Moneypenny, don't delay, Mr. Bond.

In his 40 years on film, James Bond has traveled in just about everything, even an alligator in "Octopussy," because it's the unexpected, the unknown, the unreal that's made the movies what they are.

For instance, the plasti-cast (ph) that fires a rocket in "Goldeneye," or the camera from "A License to Kill" that's really a high-velocity rifle, even those cars, the Lotus from "The Spy Who Loved Me." The car saved his life when it became a submarine.

So many of the gadgets used by Bond have never even been invented. When he first used a car telephone, they didn't even exist. Now, his car telephone, his mobile Ericsson, controls the BMW car itself.

Or the credit card that's a super, duper key. And when Bond has a watch, you never know whether it's going to be a magnet, a saw, a drill or fire a dart.

James Bond and his gadgets.

And at the end of every Bond movie, this is one thing you can guarantee. There will be a big explosion. The villain's headquarters will go up in smoke. James Bond will once again have saved the world.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

QUEST: And once again, he does it in "Die Another Day." It's the 20th official Bond movie, but of course, Jack, there have been a couple of unofficial ones.

And the quick question for you that you're clearly going to need all of your colleagues' assistance for...

CAFFERTY: Yes.

QUEST: ... name all of the Bonds. You've got 10-15 seconds, name all the Bonds.

CAFFERTY: What do you mean name all the Bonds? There's Series EE, there is Series A. What do you mean name all the Bonds? There is only James Bond, right?

QUEST: Yes, but all the actors who have played James Bond.

CAFFERTY: Oh, the actors. Yes, we did this once.

QUEST: You aren't going to buy yourself time. You're not buying yourself time on this one.

CAFFERTY: We did this once, and there are a couple of obscure ones. David Niven I think played him once, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan. Who?

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Timothy Dalton.

CAFFERTY: Timothy Dalton. I'm getting help...

HEMMER: Sean Connery.

CAFFERTY: George Lazenby?

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Richard Quest? Since you're suffering from on we (ph) at the moment, would you like to fill out the blanks for us?

QUEST: I'm sorry, Paula.

ZAHN: We'll give you six seconds to give us the other six actors.

HEMMER: 1001, 1002, 1003...

QUEST: Roger Moore -- OK, here they all are. They're Connery, Lazenby, Dalton, Moore, Brosnan, and of course, David Niven.

HEMMER: Very good.

CAFFERTY: Yes.

ZAHN: Lazenby, I forgot about him.

HEMMER: You passed, Richard.

CAFFERTY: Well, have you been on vacation? Where have you been? We haven't seen you for a couple of weeks around here?

QUEST: Yes, Australia -- very nice.

CAFFERTY: Are you going to start coming back on, on Friday, and do that "Over There" thing, where you make fun of the British news media, which is not a tough thing to do?

QUEST: As opposed to pointing out why we are more superior in the British as opposed to the American, yes.

CAFFERTY: Good. Talk to you Friday. Richard Quest in London.

QUEST: All right.

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Aired November 18, 2002 - 07:52   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Here's the good news and bad news about being James Bond. The bad news is, you spend your life with these evil masterminds trying to do you in. The good news is, you've got these Bond women. That's the good news. And the, toys -- you get all of these toys -- the gadgets that you get to play with.
Well, there's another Bond film, lest you have been in a coma. "Die Another Day" opens this week, and a new Bond exhibit in London is already thrilling Bond wannabes. It's a look at toys past and present.

AMERICAN MORNING'S own secret agent, Richard Quest, is joining us this morning from London.

And at the top of the list of new toys, I guess is they've traded in that rather pedestrian BMW for a much more sporty and cutting-edge Aston Martin.

Good morning, sir.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Shame about the German car going out the window, wasn't it? What a pity. Now another (UNINTELLIGIBLE) by the way do a Bond movie, the Aston Martin is back.

Jack, you know, we thought it (ph) was an easy business to kill people. You just shoot them in the chest. In a Bond movie, it's anything but. You saw him (UNINTELLIGIBLE) with a laser. You feed him to the sharks. You blow them up in space.

Killing James Bond, or trying to at least, has generated more gadgets than you could shake a stick at, and that's only if you drink (ph) a martini, shaken and not stirred.

As always in a Bond movie, they always start in M's (ph) office.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

QUEST (on camera): Yes, prime minister, immediately. Ah, 007, good of you to join us. The world is in trouble. We need your experience and your gadgets. Don't let us down.

Ms. Moneypenny, don't delay, Mr. Bond.

In his 40 years on film, James Bond has traveled in just about everything, even an alligator in "Octopussy," because it's the unexpected, the unknown, the unreal that's made the movies what they are.

For instance, the plasti-cast (ph) that fires a rocket in "Goldeneye," or the camera from "A License to Kill" that's really a high-velocity rifle, even those cars, the Lotus from "The Spy Who Loved Me." The car saved his life when it became a submarine.

So many of the gadgets used by Bond have never even been invented. When he first used a car telephone, they didn't even exist. Now, his car telephone, his mobile Ericsson, controls the BMW car itself.

Or the credit card that's a super, duper key. And when Bond has a watch, you never know whether it's going to be a magnet, a saw, a drill or fire a dart.

James Bond and his gadgets.

And at the end of every Bond movie, this is one thing you can guarantee. There will be a big explosion. The villain's headquarters will go up in smoke. James Bond will once again have saved the world.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

QUEST: And once again, he does it in "Die Another Day." It's the 20th official Bond movie, but of course, Jack, there have been a couple of unofficial ones.

And the quick question for you that you're clearly going to need all of your colleagues' assistance for...

CAFFERTY: Yes.

QUEST: ... name all of the Bonds. You've got 10-15 seconds, name all the Bonds.

CAFFERTY: What do you mean name all the Bonds? There's Series EE, there is Series A. What do you mean name all the Bonds? There is only James Bond, right?

QUEST: Yes, but all the actors who have played James Bond.

CAFFERTY: Oh, the actors. Yes, we did this once.

QUEST: You aren't going to buy yourself time. You're not buying yourself time on this one.

CAFFERTY: We did this once, and there are a couple of obscure ones. David Niven I think played him once, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan. Who?

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Timothy Dalton.

CAFFERTY: Timothy Dalton. I'm getting help...

HEMMER: Sean Connery.

CAFFERTY: George Lazenby?

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Richard Quest? Since you're suffering from on we (ph) at the moment, would you like to fill out the blanks for us?

QUEST: I'm sorry, Paula.

ZAHN: We'll give you six seconds to give us the other six actors.

HEMMER: 1001, 1002, 1003...

QUEST: Roger Moore -- OK, here they all are. They're Connery, Lazenby, Dalton, Moore, Brosnan, and of course, David Niven.

HEMMER: Very good.

CAFFERTY: Yes.

ZAHN: Lazenby, I forgot about him.

HEMMER: You passed, Richard.

CAFFERTY: Well, have you been on vacation? Where have you been? We haven't seen you for a couple of weeks around here?

QUEST: Yes, Australia -- very nice.

CAFFERTY: Are you going to start coming back on, on Friday, and do that "Over There" thing, where you make fun of the British news media, which is not a tough thing to do?

QUEST: As opposed to pointing out why we are more superior in the British as opposed to the American, yes.

CAFFERTY: Good. Talk to you Friday. Richard Quest in London.

QUEST: All right.

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