Seems like James Bond is everywhere these days. A new Bond film came out recently, there are Bond movie marathons on the tube, and the new issue of
Mad Classics has a retrospective of
Mad magazine parodies of the old Bond flicks.
The
Mad retrospective caused me to recall some things trans-related to James Bond that influenced me when I was a newbie femulator.
I can never forget the opening sequence of
Thunderball, which had the bad guy disguised as his wife purportedly attending his own funeral.
The femulation was in two consecutive scenes. In the first scene, I am sure that the bad guy
en femme was actually played by a woman because you can catch a glimpse of an attractive blonde under the thin veil covering her face, but in the second scene, the veil has suddenly became thicker and you cannot see the features of the grieving "widow" as she fights Bond and is revealed as male. Despite the obvious (to me), I always fantasized that the leggy blonde in the first scene was the bad guy
en femme.
Another trans-related Bond memory actually appeared in a
Mad musical parody of the Sean Connery Bond films (
Mad #94, April 1965).
In the beginning of the parody (click on image above to magnify it), a bevy of scantily clad female admirers surround Bond, while another female stands to the side admiring Bond's revolver. Bond asks why the she is admiring his revolver and not him.
The female reveals that "she" is actually agent 008 in training and that his girdle is killing him. The secret agent in training was not very attractive, but he was wearing a wig, dress, and a girdle and that definitely was of interest to me.
Finally, I recall another comic book parody loosely based on the Bond films. The spy in this parody was gay and named Jamie. He goes to a hair salon for some work unaware that the salon is run by the enemy. While under the hair dryer, the hair stylist puts him under a spell that reveals his sub-conscious feelings that he really wants to be a woman. He then undergoes a makeover and soon appears seated in the hair salon chair dressed as a pretty leggy blonde in a short dress and high heels with the other hair stylists gushing over him about how fabulous "she" looks.
When Jamie returns to spy headquarters
en femme, his superior is aghast, but he has a cure, i.e., a sexual encounter with a female. Sure enough, the cure works and soon the now macho Jamie confronts the brains behind the enemy operation that transformed him into a woman: his mother.
As you can imagine, I read that comic book over and over again and wished I could be so lucky as to walk into the enemy's hair salon.
By the way, this story appeared in a one-shot comic book in the mid- to late-1960s. I lost the book in a purge a long time ago. I have no idea who published it or what was the name of the comic book, but I do recall that the book contained two stories and they appeared throughout the book with one story appearing on the top half of each page, while the other story appeared on the bottom half of each page. If anyone can provide any other information about this comic book I would greatly appreciate it, so that I can track down a copy to add to my collection.)
All dressed up, but nowhere to go!
Gayle King is 5' 10" tall and I just added her to my Famous Females of Height list.
I happened upon this article, "15 Overlooked Deaths of 2008," which is about "the unsung deaths, the people whose passing went largely unnoticed, but deserved better."
The hit counter climbed past 200,000 earlier today. 
I watched The House Bunny last night.
We Need Your Help To Assure Equality in '09!
If you've lived in the northern climes as long as I have, you learn to dislike winter weather because it can disrupt your plans.
While Christmas shopping at the local Barnes & Noble store on Sunday, I found 1001 Little Ways to Look Younger in their bargain sales area for $6.98 (list price is $11.92). I just checked and the book is available on the B&N Web site at that bargain price, too.
