It's all in the wrist

No, this is not a reference to an exuberant teenager of bedsit lonely heart, but the pronouncement of Kamal Ka in the the James Bond film Octopussy, at achieving a maximum dice roll score each time in backgammon.  Louis Jourdan, who was most acclaimed in Gigi yet was best known to me in this 1983 007 outing, has passed away, marking another actor who faced off against Roger Moore who is no more.  Recently Geoffrey Holder (Baron Samedi, Live and Let Die) and Richard Kiel (Jaws, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker) have also died of natural causes.  French-born Jourdan played Ka, the exiled Afghan prince who improbably forms an alliance with  renegade Soviet General Orlov (Steven Berkoff, in what is almost an audition for Rambo: First Blood, Part II).  I say 'improbable' given the actions of the USSR in the land of Ka's birth.
When first announced past midnight on Sunday, there was no mention of Jourdan's role as a Bond villain.  Yet come the 8am news, he was given due credit for that too.  I was a bit foxed by the midnight bulletin feeling sure that Jourdan was Kamal Ka and when this was confirmed at 8am, I was elated.  My wife was confused why I should be happy at what in all other circumstances is a sad event but I was suppose I was a bit like David Tennant's Dr Who in the episode Utopia, when the doctor theorises the name of the last settlement in the history of the universe and is jubilant at its confirmation, despite the tragic environment.
Kamal Ka is beaten at his own game by James Bond who uses the challenger's privilege of using the host's dice (Ka's loaded dice) and promptly gets a double six himself, costing Ka a hefty sum.  As Bond walks to collect his winnings, he explains to the duffer of a British ex-colonel who was taking a hammering from Ka, that, "It's not really all in the wrist."  Supreme bedder of women, what else would Bond say?