Having worked for Channel 10 as a producer for their LA Olympics coverage in 1984, he began fine-tuning his thematic talents. He is currently designing a hotel shaped like a peacock for an Indian billionaire. His imagination, at times, has been a little bit overpowering for his adopted home town. A plan to erect a 14-storey bronzed Aussie lifesaver at the mouth of the estuary on the Southport Broadwater attracted criticism and even, dare we say it, sarcasm. It obviously stung.
Bond is undeterred.
The mayor here is a wonderful person, a decent man, but he doesn't have a skerrick of imagination. I think they're afraid that people will get drunk, or that sharks will be attracted to bright pyjamas or something. These locals spats, however, are a mere trifle compared with his responsibilities for the Olympic Games. He alludes to a storyline that will run through the opening ceremony, the actual games, and the closing ceremony. A unified tale encapsulating those all-precious 16 days next year.