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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on September 10, 2020, 02:45:12 PM

Title: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 10, 2020, 02:45:12 PM: Utterly enchanting actor

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54106509
Title: Re: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: Owlswing on September 10, 2020, 07:14:49 PM: Remember in The Avengers kicking Jacky Pallo in the teeth, mistiming it and actually kicking him in the teeth! (regrettably probably apocryphal!)
Title: Re: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 10, 2020, 08:56:35 PM: Quote from: Owlswing on September 10, 2020, 07:14:49 PM

Remember in The Avengers kicking Jacky Pallo in the teeth, mistiming it and actually kicking him in the teeth! (regrettably probably apocryphal!)
I fear that that was Honor Blackman rather than Diana Rigg - both wonderful.

And both dead this year.
Title: Re: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: Owlswing on September 11, 2020, 01:49:29 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 10, 2020, 08:56:35 PM

I fear that that was Honor Blackman rather than Diana Rigg - both wonderful.

And both died this year.

I told you I had a shit memory! Drops me in the shit every time! Dammit!
Title: Re: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: jeremyp on September 11, 2020, 10:46:34 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 10, 2020, 08:56:35 PM
I fear that that was Honor Blackman rather than Diana Rigg - both wonderful.

And both dead this year.
Linda Thorson must be a bit concerned.
Title: Re: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: jeremyp on September 11, 2020, 10:53:54 AM: This is my favourite memory of Diana Rigg

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=919490364784977

Sorry it's on Facebook, it's the only place I could find the clip. Clicking the link won't steal your soul.
Title: Re: Diana Rigg dead
Post by: Robbie on September 11, 2020, 10:14:12 PM: Oh no! I was only thinking of her today - yes, really. It was because I saw her in "All Creatures Great and Small" (great new series), the other night & was remembering her in other things.

I particularly remember her in a TV drama in the late eighties in which Diana Rigg played a murderous mother and grandmother. At the time she thanked the television coming for giving her the part of a lifetime. I now cannot remember what it was called but was based on a book which I had read - Mother Love? Maybe. It was brilliant as was she. I hope it is shown again in tribute to her.

She died of cancer but it sounds as though her last months were comfortable:-
"She spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter and a deep pride in her profession," from her daughter.