I’d stay contemporary and reinvent all the great Bond villains for the era: Goldfinger, Scaramanaga, Red Grant, Largo, Drax, all the rest. I love the idea of a sort of MCU approach, where some of thehese guys appear (or are referenced) in multiple movies before they become the main adversary.

If a young Dr. No showed up as a SPECTRE scientist in this new film, portending a future confrontation, I’d go nuts with the rest of the audience. Or we get a glimpse of Rosa Klebb training Anya Amasova.

/3 Notice also how thankfully Heritage accepts the gift that people like Ezra Klein give them: if you can frame bigotry as a “debate,” if it’s done in a friendly chat or a podcast or some other stylized forum, then it’s just uncouth and intolerant to call it out. Works out swell for bigots.

James co-signed this mortgage with her niece and helped the niece with the down payment. I’m guessing the (dumb) thing they’ll allege is that James was really the sole-owner of the property and was “renting“ it to the niece (perhaps because the niece was repaying the down payment assistance).

“Fredo“ won’t do. Fredo was smarter than Eric, and he certainly had more heart. “AJ Soprano“ is a better metaphor, but doesn’t capture Eric’s dweebiness. How about “fuckblister, the zit that walks?”