Sam Mendes picked a good time to split up with wife Kate Winslet. The director of “American Beauty” and “Road to Perdition” is now casting Bond girls for the 23rd installment of the 007 series. This one, again starring Daniel Craig as the licensed-to-kill British agent, will be in 3-D and is fast-tracked for a 2011 release. So far only one name has surfaced as a potential Bond babe, Freida Pinto of “Slumdog Millionaire.”

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