{"id":8133,"date":"2016-04-02T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2016-04-03T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T04:00:30","slug":"live-and-let-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/live-and-let-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Live and Let Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{2.5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;Who&#8217;s funeral is this?&#8217; &#8216;Yours.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Live and Let Die<\/strong>, released in 1973<\/p>\n<p>When three agents are killed, James Bond is sent to New York to investigate. M believes the murders are all connected to Dr. Kanaga of the Caribbean island of San Monique. Bond later travels to San Monique and New Orleans in pursuit of answers and a man known as Mr. Big. He also encounters a young woman named Solitaire who has the ability to read tarot cards.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Moore takes over from Sean Connery as Bond and does a fine job.<\/p>\n<p>There are several great stunts. But as usual with the older Bond movies, the plot is only intermittently interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Yaphet Kotto and Jane Seymour. Directed by Guy Hamilton (<strong>Goldfinger<\/strong>). The music by George Martin isn&#8217;t as good as a John Barry score but it has its moments. The theme song by Paul McCartney is one of the best.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/diamonds-are-forever\/\"><strong>Diamonds Are Forever<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{2.5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;Who&#8217;s funeral is this?&#8217; &#8216;Yours.&#8217;&#8221; Live and Let Die, released in 1973 When three agents are killed, James Bond is sent to New York to investigate. M believes the murders are all connected to Dr. Kanaga of the Caribbean island of San Monique. Bond later travels to San Monique and New Orleans in pursuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}