The Man With The Golden Run

It's a dull Saturday afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio, and young Halle Berry is flipping through the TV stations. She's bored in the deep, almost desolate way that eight- and nine-year-olds get bored — but something on the screen grabs her attention. A blonde in a white bikini is rising from the sea. There's a knife in her white-leather belt. Suddenly the afternoon isn't dull anymore. One of those channels that broadcasts old movies by day and infomercials by night is showing a 1962 James Bond film called Dr. No. "I remember that bikini coming out of the water and thinking how...