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The following articles have been tagged with "James_bond":

Second Swede to appear in new Bond blockbuster

Society: 13 Mar 12
Jens Hultén has been announced as a cast member of the newest 007 installment, meaning two Swedes will be sharing the silver screen with James Bond this year. READ »

Saab museum saved by Wallenberg millions

Business & Money: 25 Jan 12
The Saab museum of automobile rarities, which has struggled to find a buyer following the company’s recent bankruptcy, has been saved by a Wallenberg-family trust that wanted the museum to remain intact. READ »

Volvo wagon Sweden's 'biggest film star'

Society: 20 Jan 12
When naming the Swedish model most often seen on the silver screen, many might guess Greta Garbo. But the correct answer is actually the rather unassuming Volvo 240 station wagon, according to a new ranking. READ »

Saab auctions off classic museum models

Business & Money: 18 Jan 12
A piece of James Bond history will soon go under the hammer in Sweden, when bankrupt car company Saab is auctioning off the rare, collectable and classic cars on display in the Saab museum. READ »

'Tattoo' marketing angers Larsson's partner

Society: 21 Dec 11
Stieg Larsson's former partner has slammed the commercialization of the late Swedish writer's best-selling novel, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, in connection with the release of Hollywood's adaption of the book. READ »

Rapace lands role in new Bond movie

Society: 8 Nov 11
Swedish actor Ola Rapace is in London to take part in the new James Bond film "Skyfall", according to his agent Aleksandra Mandic. READ »

Ship to Gaza hit by cyber attack

National: 18 Jul 11
The website of Swedish Ship to Gaza has been subjected to a cyber attack, in the latest setback to befall the aid and protest convoy the Freedom Flotilla II. READ »

'We won't give up - we will return': Mankell

National: 8 Jul 11
Swedish bestselling crime author Henning Mankell slammed Greece for blocking the aid flotilla to Gaza as some of Sweden's pro-Palestinian activists returned home on Thursday. READ »

Swedish Ship to Gaza express 'grief and dismay' at Greek authorities

Politics: 5 Jul 11
The Swedish-based Ship to Gaza rights group on Monday expressed their dismay at Greece's decision to block the humanitarian flotilla from sailing to the Palestinian territory. READ »

Israel rejects Gaza ship claims as 'Bond-esque'

National: 29 Jun 11
Israeli authorities have rejected claims by the Swedish Ship to Gaza movement that "foreign agents" were behind the damage to their boat, which was reported sabotaged on Monday. READ »

Three new stars confirmed in 'Tattoo' film

Society: 9 Oct 10
Three more actors have joined the cast of the Hollywood version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," which began shooting in Sweden this month. READ »

Swedes vote for Harry Potter, James Bond and Your Mum

Society: 23 Sep 10
As the Alliance government stands to miss out on an overall majority by a whisker, handwritten ballots for parties such as Joy Division, Pull Yourself Together and Djingis Cat have had an unlikely impact on Swedish politics. READ »

Skarsgård offered Millennium film role

Society: 5 Aug 10
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård has been offered a role in the US remake of the first of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which is due for release in 2011. READ »

Daniel Craig lands Millennium lead role

Society: 27 Jul 10
Daniel Craig has officially signed on with Sony Picture to star in the lead role as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the upcoming Hollywood film remake of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. READ »

Spies, lies and Swedish ties

Lifestyle: 13 Jul 09
The Local's Laura Xiao meets Stockholm-based novelist Jeremy Duns to catch up on the recent publication of the first part of a thrilling new Cold War trilogy. READ »

Swedish couple continue fight for right to name their son Q

Society: 5 May 09
A Swedish couple from Åre in northern Sweden have taken their fight to name their son Q to the Supreme Administrative Court arguing that "there are stranger names in the valley". READ »

Swedish men 'not as masculine as they used to be': study

Society: 29 Apr 09
Swedish men have become more metrosexual and less masculine in recent times, according to a new survey polling both sexes on their opinion of the Swedish male. READ »

Licence to spy: Sony snoops on Bond fans

Society: 5 Nov 08
Sony Pictures in Sweden has employed methods worthy of James Bond in an attempt to protect against the pirating of Quantum of Solace. READ »

Cop reports quantum of bubbly at Bond premiere

National: 5 Nov 08
A police officer in Karlskoga in central Sweden has filed an official complaint after reading in the newspaper that champagne was served at the local cinema to coincide with the premiere of the new James Bond movie. READ »

True grit: London musical aims for Swede success

Lifestyle: 23 Jan 08
A villain standing in front of a Union Jack has been glowering at Stockholmers from billboards across the city in recent weeks. Kathleen Harman looks at how a hard-edged British musical is looking for success in Sweden. READ »

Swede changes name to James Bond

Society: 5 Apr 07
Forget Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig: Gunnar Schäfer is the new James Bond. And his interest stretches a lot further than the Bond museum he runs in Nybro. READ »

Introducing...Dolph Lundgren

Lifestyle: 19 Mar 07
He was Hollywood's favourite Cold War Russian muscleman, but Dolph Lundgren was also quite a whizz in the lab, as Paul O'Mahony explains. READ »

Concrete jungle: Sweden's suburbs become cool

Lifestyle: 9 Feb 07
They provide homes to one in four of the Swedish population, but the brutalist architecture of Sweden's 'Miljonprogram' suburbs has long had a bad press. Yet now the impossible seems to be happening: the suburbs are becoming cool. Christine Demsteader reports. READ »


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