In the latest chapter of Amy Winehouse's well-oiled sorrows, producer Mark Ronson has publically taken himself and the singer out of the apparently fierce competition to draft a theme song for the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. It is not clear how close the pair ever were to a firm commitment from the movie's producers; Ronson said that there are "loads more really famous people" in the race, but that they had been "approached" to try their hand at it and had gotten as far as cutting a demo that, Ronson avers, "sounds like a James Bond theme." (Considering that "James Bond themes" run the gamut from swoony ballads performed by Louis Armstrong and Carly Simon to chaotic, weird attempts to rock the house by Duran Duran, that's a categorization that leaves one a lot of wiggle room.) Ronson also blamed the stalemate on Winehouse's well-publicized personal issues, including those with the demon rum, though the BBC reports that a spokesman for the singer insisted that "the decision was taken because she had 'other ideas' about how the song should be developed." (No one was prepared to comment on rumors that the real problem was that neither Winehouse or Ronson could think of any words that rhymed with "solace.")
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