The theme to “The Spy Who Loved Me” seems like the right tune to serenade Nvidia head honcho Jensen Huang, who fell into a honeytrap with a Chinese intelligence asset, which is a crossword-clue way of saying “spy.” Apparently Trump knew about it for the past year but considers it no big deal, even though keeping Nvidia’s chips out of Chinese hands is a key component of the Great AI Race that we must win for reasons I don’t understand (I also don’t understand why Iran must at all costs not get a nuclear weapon, either, so maybe it’s just me).
Whatever they say, the real reason seems to be that this Huang fellow holds the fate of the world economy in his hands. All his techbro brethren attested to his brilliance and a desire to just move forward. These guys must see themselves as James Bond. No matter what woman Bond romances, she’s almost never heard of again after the installment ends.
In the 10th Bond film, “The Spy Who Loved Me,” Roger Moore’s Bond and Barbara Bach’s Soviet agent aren’t exactly in love, though they get in a clinch at the end – moments after she threatens him with a gun. It’s not very steamy, but the film’s theme song, composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, sure is. The movie’s title appears in the lyrics, but the clear emphasis is on “it,” whatever it might be.
Carly Simon’s single version made it to No. 2 in 1977. This live performance came a decade later.
One huge fan of the song is Thom Yorke, leader of Radiohead, who called it “the sexiest song ever written.”
