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James Bond is the subject of a new art exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating his 25 years of literary and cinematic sang-froid. The show honors the gift of 14 newly struck prints of Bond films to the museum’s film archives by Albert R. (Cubby) Broccoli, the producer of most of the Bond films. The exhibition includes screenings of the 14 new Bond prints, as well as enlargements of stills, posters, production-design sketches and video clips. There’s more obscure Bondiana to boot: Jaws’ teeth (“Moonraker”), Rosa Klebb’s blade-wielding shoes (“From Russia With Love”), Tee Hee’s metal arm (“Live and Let Die”), a gold-plated gun with solid-gold bullets (“The Man With the Golden Gun”) and a laser gun and poison pen (“Moonraker”). Strangely missing from the exhibit: Oddjob’s steel-brimmed bowler.

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