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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

The trailer for No Time to Die, the latest James Bond movie came out yesterday.

The previous movies in the franchise have generated more than $7 billion in worldwide box

office sales. Have you ever wondered how the iconic spy got his name?

Ian Fleming, the writer of the novels that birthed the movie franchise,

was an avid birdwatcher. On a trip to Jamaica after World War II, he noticed a book on birds

of the West Indies by an ornithologist from Philadelphia named James Bond. Years later, Fleming

wrote to Mr. Bond's wife, it struck me that this brief, unromatic, Anglo-Saxon,

and yet very masculine name, was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born.

However, like a spy novel, there's a twist to this story. It turns out an intelligence officer

named James Bond served under Fleming in a secret elite unit that led a guerrilla war against Hitler.

James Charles Bond, a metal worker from Wales, died in 1995 without revealing his spy past.

His family suspects that Fleming used the birdwatching James Bond to protect the identity of the real James Bond.

One of the reasons I pay attention to popular movies is that their popularity reveals so much about us.

Sean Connery's British secret agent first appeared during the height of Cold War paranoia and offered us

the assurance in film after film that the West could defeat the Soviets. In the decades since,

James Bond has taken on our most frightening enemies and saved the world with his unique mixture of

brash courage and technological wizardry. The westerns of the 1930s gave

us solitary heroes who inspired us during the Great Depression. The comic book superhero films

of recent years typically make far more money overseas than they do in America, highlighting the

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