Ernst Stavro Blofeld novel, "The Spy Who Loved Me", though its events take place while Bond is battling SPECTRE in North America. In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1963), Bond learns that Blofeld has altered his appearance radically —he is now tall and thin; has reduced his weight to ; sports long silver hair, a syphilitic infection on his nose, and no earlobes; he wears dark green tinted contact lenses to hide his distinctive eyes. Perhaps less calculating than previously, he is notably saddled with the exploitable weakness of snobbery about his assumed nobility, indicating that he is losing his sanity. He is
Telly Savalas è al telefono" (1972), an Italian giallo; "Pancho Villa" (1972), playing the title role in a Spanish spaghetti Western; "A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die" (1972), another Western, this time with James Coburn; and "Senza ragione" (1973), an Italian thriller. "I had worked my way up to star billing," he later said, "when the bottom dropped out of the movie business. I could have stayed in Europe and made Italian, movies but I discovered the big difference between an Italian and American movie is that in the American movie you get paid." Savalas first played Detective Kojak in