Story of the Scene, By Roger Clarke
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The celebrated scene of Harrison Ford shooting a scimitar-swirling assassin was made particularly zippy because the star had an urgent need to use the lavatory.
Other revelations: Jack Nicholson's remark in Chinatown apropos Polanski ("Where d'you get the midget?") injected real danger into the nose-slitting scene; given a banana-print bikini, Ursula Andress made her own white one for Dr No; One query: Clarke describes the use of sexy outtakes from Nic Roeg's Performance in a Dutch porn film as "apocryphal", but others say it won a prize at Amsterdam's Wet Dream Festival.
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