 Several scenes, including the one where Bond and Anya meet each  other in a Cairo bar, were written by an uncredited  Tom Mankiewicz (qv). According to him, the scene originally made  reference to Tatiana Romanova, the Bond girl in  _From Russia with Love (1963)_ (qv), but this was cut. If it had  been left in, the film would have included direct references to both  the Sean Connery (qv) and George Lazenby (qv) eras of the Bond  series.