 In addition to "Diamonds Are Forever", he used them in "Live and Let Die", "From Russia, with Love" and "The Man with the Golden Gun".As with several others of his works, Fleming appropriated the names of people he knew for the story's characters.The name of one of Fleming's two travelling companions from the US, Ernest Cuneo, was used as Ernie Cureo, Bond's taxi-driving ally in Las Vegas, and one of the homosexual villains, "Boofy" Kidd, was named after one of Fleming's close friends—and a relative of his wife—Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran, known to his friends as "Boofy".