Fleming. Ian Fleming.

"Bond. James Bond." \nPerhaps the most famous introduction in the history of western literature will be celebrated by Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theatre in the form of a James Bond Film Festival. The event begins at 4 p.m. Friday and ends Sunday.\nThe festival mixes films based off the books written by the real-life British secret agent Ian Fleming, as well as roundtable discussions hosted by academics who have researched both the literature and the life of Fleming.\nThe initial event is an introduction called "James Bond 101," led by Raymond Benson, an author who has written several Bond continuation books. The introduction will serve as a segue into a screening of "Live and Let Die."\nDirected by Guy Hamilton and running 121 minutes, the 1973 film pairs Roger Moore -- the second-best-known face of James Bond -- and Jane Seymour, with a script that puts Bond and his Q-devised gadgets in the secretive and voodoo filled world of the occult. The film begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday.\nMost of Fleming's books made the transition from ink to celluloid well, except the 1953 book "Casino Royale." The film was made by CBS and its Chrysler Climax Mystery Theatre series in 1954; it was the black and white Bond flick that didn't do well. In 1967, the film was subjected to another small remake starring the late Sir David Niven and Woody Allen. The 1954 version will be shown at 8 p.m. Friday and stars infamous character-villain Peter Lorre as "Le Chiffre." \n"(The director) took several additional liberties with Fleming's plot," said Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett of the film in a news release.\nBut while "Casino Royale" has yet to undergo an adequate adaptation to the screen, it is this title that was Fleming's first work, published 50 years ago. In celebration of this anniversary, the IU Department of English is sponsoring what the department claims to be the first ever academic symposium on the cultural legacy of Ian Fleming and his writing. \n"The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007" is the name of the event that English chairman Stephen Watt will chair. \nEven though the character of James Bond and perhaps the authorship of Ian Fleming are known the world over, this international facet has a very local side; the original manuscripts of the "007" canon are part of the archives of the IU Lilly Library.\nBeginning after the film, there will be a discussion concerning the film including Benson, Lycett and author James Chapman, who wrote "License to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films." \nThe festival then resumes at 1 p.m.Saturday with the original and iconic actor portraying James Bond, Sean Connery. In "From Russia with Love," "007" is lured into a trap by Soviet siren Daniela Bianchi and Robert Shaw. The 188-minute film follows Bond to places like Istanbul, Turkey and the surrounding country via the Orient Express. \nAt 4 p.m. Saturday is another Bond personification by Connery in "Dr. No." Running 111 minutes, "No" is the first Bond film starring Connery, who played Bond with a charming and gentlemanly wit that also defied death. The film takes Bond to the warm and sunny beaches of Jamaica where he must confront another in a string of evil criminal masterminds who -- you guessed it -- are out to rule the world.\nThe chance to have a martini, shaken not stirred, comes at 6 p.m. Saturday with a champagne and caviar reception followed by a leap forward 30 years to see the latest "007," Pierce Brosnan as the newest personification of Britain's agent with a license to kill.\nAt 7 p.m. Saturday, the projectionist will flip the switch on "Goldeneye" starring Dame Judy Dench and Robby Coltraine, where Bond fights international villainy once again in the 17th addition to the Bond canon. \nAnother roundtable discussion begins at 9 p.m., called "The Legacy of James Bond and Ian Fleming." The discussion panel will include Lycett and will be moderated by IU English professor Edward Comentale.\nTimothy Dalton portrays Bond at 1 p.m. Sunday in "The Living Daylights" as the man some call "the most dangerous Bond of all." Combating drug traffickers, the KGB and private armies are the name of the game in this 1987 film.\nAt 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday Sean Connery comes back as the No. 1 Bond in "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball." \nJames Bond films, whether they star Sean Connery, Roger Moore, the ill-fated George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan, the character of James Bond seems to be one of the most popular literary figures since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned the first few lines of Sherlock Holmes. So much that Benson said he seems to the think the subsequent films influence Ian Fleming himself.\n"Even in the later Fleming books you can see the films had an influence on Fleming, and Bond started to get a sense of humor there for the last two or three books," said Benson on www.ianfleming.org, a Web site dedicated to the memory and works of Ian Fleming.\nThe James Bond Film Festival is sponsored by The Cinemat and is open to the public in several ways. Individual show tickets can be purchased for $5. A festival pass is available for $30. Tickets to the reception and "Goldeneye" are $12 and includes admission to the final roundtable discussion, "The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming and 007."\nFor more information about the academic side of the conference, visit www.indiana.edu/~engweb/jamesbond.