//Fax of treatment sent by Malcolm McLaren to Neal Purvis and Robert Wade on January 9, 1991//

These faded pages constitute a film pitch Malcolm McLaren sent by fax to screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade way back in 1991.

//The first page of the fax shows that this treatment was completed a couple of weeks before it was sent, on December 20, 1990//

//From my transcription of the now-very faded fax//

Purvis and Wade are responsible for many  film successes including the astounding run of screenplays for the seven James Bond movies from 1999’s The World Is Not Enough to the recently released No Time To Die. I’ve known them for a  while and Neal has mentioned their contact with McLaren during preparations for their first feature Let Him Have It, so made sure it was covered  in the hardback edition of The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren.

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Tags: Impressions of America, James Bond, Leadville, Let Him Have It, Neal Purvis, No Time To Die, Oscar Wilde, Robert Wade, Screen International, Skyfall, The World Is Not Enough, Too Too Utterly

//Shinobu Kanai aka “Shinny” in a Seditionaries top in Episode 9 of the first series of The Return Of The Saint, broadcast November 1978?//

//Kanai  in The Great Rock N Roll Swindle, 1980//

// As “Japanese Woman” in the opening sequence of Insignificance, 1985//

Currently doing the rounds of the punk groups on various social networking sites is this clip from the cheesy 70s revival of classic 60s British television series The Saint.

Entitled The Arrangement, episode nine of The Return Of The Saint was broadcast on November 5, 1978 and starred such UK TV drama stalwarts as Carolyn Seymour, seen here looking glam in a car in Soho’s Wardour Street outside The Marquee where the great Aussie band The Saints are crashing through Swing For The Crime from their Eternally Yours album.
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Tags: Bobo Pheonix, Dead Fingers Talk, Eternally Yours, Groovy Bob, If It Ain't Stiff It Ain't Worth A Fuck, Insignificance, John Lydon, Julien Temple, Nicolas Roeg, Peter medak, Rob Eunson, Robert Fraser, Screen International, Seditionaries, Sex Pistols, Shinny, Sinobu Kanai, Steve Jones, Swing For The Crime, The Great Rock N Roll Swindle, The Internationals, The Marquee, The Saints, The Story Of Brian Epstein, Vivienne Westwood