Shaken, Not Stirred

In my Dr. No review, I mentioned a critic who, in his review of Tomorrow Never Dies, had kvetched that Bond would never drink Smirnoff...which was pretty clueless, of course, as Bond had been drinking Smirnoff in his very first movie.

Well, the internet is a fine research tool, so I found the review in question: Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly. Here's the sentences in question:

Would James Bond really be caught dead drinking Smirnoff vodka? Sadly, the very notion of a Smirnoff martini blends all too well into the harsh-grained mediocrity of Tomorrow Never Dies.

Sorry, Owen, but yeah, he would be caught dead drinking Smirnoff:

It's a sad, sad day when movie critics become bigger elitist snobs regarding liquor than Bond himself...