11/9/2023 0 Comments Tanya roberts a view to a kill![]() His scheme involves the flooding of Silicon Valley in order to take over the microchip industry alongside the mighty and mysterious May Day ( Grace Jones), a woman of few words and murky intentions. Zorin, the product of a macabre WWII genetic experiment, is yet another bleached blond Bond foe in the tradition of Robert Shaw. “A View to a Kill” deals with James Bond ( Roger Moore) and his efforts to stop psychopath Max Zorin ( Christopher Walken), from implementing “Operation Main Strike”, a plan that is similar in name to Auric Goldfinger’s “Operation Grand Slam” but not quite as intriguing in nature. Since that summer of 1985 when “A View to a Kill” came out, there certainly have been Bonds with lesser villains and plots (“ Quantum of Solace”), others that were far more outrageous (“ Die Another Day”) and even some that were not as visually attractive (“License to Kill”), but the key to “View” remaining alone at the bottom of the 007 canon is how terribly it scores in just about every category used to measure these films. “View” has one of the series’ great title songs (by Duran Duran), it was filmed in some of the best locales imaginable (Paris, San Francisco), it was the first featuring an Academy Award winner (Chirstopher Walken), and yet, it is also the one where someone thought it would be a good idea to spice up a snowy chase scene with The Beach Boys’ “California Girls”. On the contrary, it represents a curiosity of sorts among the Bonds. ![]() It’s not that the picture is devoid of any interest. Widowed in 2006, Tanya Roberts died of sepsis from a urinary tract infection in 2021.Thirty years have passed since the release of the 14 th James Bond film “A View to a Kill”, and it remains uncontested as the worst entry in the series. She was featured in the CD computer game The Pandora Directive (1996) and had a recurring lead role in the television series That '70s Show (1998). She continued to appear in films, though mainly direct-to-video and direct-to-cable features. The attention she garnered helped secure her most significant film roles: The Beastmaster (1982) (and posed for the cover and an inside spread in Playboy magazine to promote the film), the title role in Sheena (1984) and as a Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985). After appearing in several minor films, her first big break came when she was selected as the last Angel on the final season of Charlie's Angels (1976), and was featured on the cover of People magazine (). Her film debut was in The Last Victim (1976). She began appearing in made-for-TV films including Pleasure Cove (1979), Zuma Beach (1978), and Waikiki (1980). In 1977, Tanya and her husband - by then a scriptwriter - moved to Hollywood. ![]() ![]() She appeared in off-Broadway productions of "Picnic" and "Antigone", and in television commercials for Ultra Brite, Clairol and Cool Ray sunglasses. In her early years in New York, she supported herself as an Arthur Murray dance instructor and by modeling. She studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen. ![]() A few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station, and they were married. She met psychology student Barry Roberts while waiting in line to see a movie. Tanya reportedly dropped out of high school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled. The second daughter of manufacturing executive Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy, Tanya Roberts was born 1949 in Manhattan and grew up in the elite Westchester County suburbs Scarsdale and Greenburgh. ![]()
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