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CHEERS MR BOND

oger Moore famously enjoyed a dry gin martini, shaken, until he could no longer drink them due to diabetes, while Daniel Craig maintains he prefers beer; but a vodka martini – shaken, not stirred – has long been James Bond’s tipple of choice. In Fleming’s 1954 novel, , 007 sups a six parts (1958). Though Connery drank one in Bond’s first cinematic outing in 1962 he didn’t utter the famous line until Goldfinger in 1964 – and successive Bond’s have been ordering martinis (‘dirty’ and ‘Vespers’ included) ever since.

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