A few items of the day: While South Korea and Japan were far behind the U.S. in vaccinations at the beginning,  they have both now passed us in shots/person . Only 36% of parents support vaccinating their children.  It was 26% in July. Daniel Craig has been James Bond longer than anyone else.  His final appearance as 007 will be  No Time to Die ,  ( Rotten Tomatoes :82/ ), the 25th movie of the series, to be released next week. At 2 hours 43 minutes, the longest Bond film ever. Cary Joji Fukunaga is the first American director. Rami Malek ( of  Bohemian Rhapsody  fame ) is the villain Craig will reprise his role in the  sequel to  Knives Out . The next Bond?   Idris Elba ,  Lashana Lynch  ( black and female, who is in  NTtD ) and  Tom Hardy . I remember well my very first Bond flick, the 1963  Dr. No .  Can you believe that was almost 60 years ago?  The reviewers hated it.  I wondered wh...