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"The Avengers has made a deserved return , because it is one of the small handful of consistently inventive, offbeat and thoroughly entertaining programs on television." - Playboy , March 1967 Review By: debi ...

A tall, incisive British leading lady and sometime character player with admirably high cheekbones and a crisp style of line delivery, Rigg came to specialize in icy villainesses such as the ungrateful daughter ...

Today: Actress Diana Rigg is 70. Guitarist Carlos Santana is 61. Singer Chris Cornell is 44.

Today is the anniversary of British Columbia joining the Canadian Confederation in 1871.

A tall, incisive British leading lady and sometime character player with admirably high cheekbones and a crisp style of line delivery, Rigg came to specialize in icy villainesses such as the ungrateful daughter ...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 20-26: July 20: Rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef is 73.

Dame Diana Rigg , the theatre actress still best known for her portrayal of Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series The Avengers , is 70 this month, but you wouldn't know it from her zesty attitude to life.

Dame Diana Rigg may be 70 this month but she still drives a Mercedes sports car, smokes 20 a day and swears by a bottle of Merlot before bedtime.

I can remember watching The Avengers some number of years ago on TV, but they were all the later episodes, the ones that featured Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.

Where now there are superheroes, once there were secret agents. In the '60s, secret agents were the kings of popular culture, reigning over both big screen and small.

CAROL CLING MORE COLUMNS REVIEW movie: "Wanted" running time: 110 minutes rating : R; extreme violence and profanity, sexual situations, nudity verdict: C- now playing: Cannery, Cinedome, Fiesta, Green Valley, ...

“Sometimes I'd see a design, but it was usually a logo and on the outside. I thought there was nothing for the most important person; the one under the umbrella. It just didn't make sense.”

For way too long the umbrella has been undervalued as a classic style icon. Think Gene Kelly in "Singing in the Rain", Diana Rigg in "The Avengers", Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady". Sensing this accessory has ... via Trend Hunter Magazine

Photo / Supplied Herald rating : * * * Cast : Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Young, Diana Rigg Director : John Curran Running time : 125 mins Rating : M Screening : Bridgeway, Lido, Rialto ... via NZ Herald

W. Somerset Maugham wrote his novel THE PAINTED VEIL in 1925. Since then there have been two film versions, neither of them widely acclaimed. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“They were brilliant in the way they segued from comedy to tragedy and back again.”

SOMETHING odd is happening in the theatre world. In the past few months in London, Diana Rigg has appeared in a stage version of Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, and there's been a ... via The Austrailian

“It's so great that people love Edna - she's been very good to me”

Michael Ball has been appearing in musicals for more than 20 years West End show Hairspray has won a record seven awards at the Theatregoers' Choice Awards. via BBC

“Who knows whether that particular person will ever work in this town again?”

Poor Gemma Arterton. This refreshingly honest actor - who cheerfully describes herself as a "motormouth" - has been cast in the upcoming Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, and she has been chatting merrily away to ... via The Hindu

“It's quite hard for me who has a bit of a motor mouth. I've been learning for the last six months to think before I speak.”

Is Gemma Arterton feeling the heat for having recently blurted out a key plot point involving her character in Quantum of Solace ? Seems that way. via Cinematical

Donald Monat and Diane Appleby again impersonate Patrick MacNee and Diana Rigg . via Internet Archive