RIP Diana Rigg
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Tom Wolper
Sep 10, 2020, 10:10:42 AM9/10/20
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Part of my pandemic watching was a DVD box set of the Emma Peel era of The Avengers. She was so much fun to watch. And I'm glad she got to have a high profile role in Game of Thrones later in life. She was 82.
Bob Jersey
Sep 10, 2020, 10:20:54 AM9/10/20
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You beat me to it. I'll drop mine from web.
Tom Wolper, Sept 10th:
Part of my pandemic watching was a DVD box set of the Emma Peel era of The Avengers. She was so much fun to watch. And I'm glad she got to have a high profile role in Game of Thrones later in life. She was 82.
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Adam Bowie
Sep 10, 2020, 10:37:03 AM9/10/20
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I just love the Emma Peel era Avengers. This is very sad. She was fantastic in just about everything she did.
There was a fantastic late 80s BBC drama called Mother Love in which she played a wonderfully calculating woman. Sadly, it's hard to find. And although it may have been the Lazenby Bond film, she was great in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. More recently, aside from Game of Thrones, she had a lovely cameo in a beautiful little comedy called The Dectorists (may be on Netflix) where she played the mother of her real-life daughter Rachel Stirling. And she features in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small which just started airing in the UK last week.
Emma Peel Forever.
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PGage
Sep 10, 2020, 10:42:02 AM9/10/20
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She really was great. I will add this tweet from channel4news:
“Her daughter said Rigg died in her sleep this morning, having been diagnosed with cancer in March.
She said she ‘spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter and a deep pride in her profession. I will miss her beyond words.’l
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Part of my pandemic watching was a DVD box set of the Emma Peel era of The Avengers. She was so much fun to watch. And I'm glad she got to have a high profile role in Game of Thrones later in life. She was 82.
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Brad Beam
Sep 10, 2020, 5:49:30 PM9/10/20
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From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam Bowie
>More recently, aside from Game of Thrones, she had a lovely cameo in a beautiful little comedy called The Dectorists (may be on Netflix) where she played the mother of her real-life daughter Rachel Stirling. And she features in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small which just started airing in the UK last week.
Funnier than their first on-screen pairing on “Doctor Who” (2013), when Mom was causing trouble at t’mill up North as the human symbiotic host of an ancient leech, and Daughter was her lab rat. (And, the writers sprinkled several “Avengers” references throughout the episode.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78292o2CMk&t=108s
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David Risner
Sep 10, 2020, 6:00:00 PM9/10/20
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First two seasons (series) of Detectorists are on Amazon Prime here in the US. Looks like what Amazon has labelled as season 2 includes the Christmas special that aired just after series 2 aired in the UK.
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Steve Timko
Sep 10, 2020, 6:17:41 PM9/10/20
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I hate to value women on their sex appeal alone. I'm sure Diana Rigg was a wonderfully intelligent person in real life. But her characters seemed to be people who were a lot of fun and adventurous. Not high maintenance. That made her extra hot.
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Diner
Sep 10, 2020, 9:48:14 PM9/10/20
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I'll add two things.
One is that, as a fourteen year old circa 1979-80, I discovered Avengers reruns and became completely besotted with her. I thought she was the sexiest woman I had ever seen. And it wasn't just her looks but the sly intelligence she radiated that fascinated me so. A few years later I saw her in "King Lear" and "The Great Muppet Caper" around the same time, and I was bowled over by her range. That never stopped impressing me. (The only thing I didn't like her in was "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries," but that wasn't her fault - I just didn't like the character or the format.)
And the other is... this, which makes me like her on a whole other level:
On Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 6:17:41 PM UTC-4, Steve Timko wrote:
I hate to value women on their sex appeal alone. I'm sure Diana Rigg was a wonderfully intelligent person in real life. But her characters seemed to be people who were a lot of fun and adventurous. Not high maintenance. That made her extra hot.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 2:59 PM David Risner <da...@risner.org> wrote:
First two seasons (series) of Detectorists are on Amazon Prime here in the US. Looks like what Amazon has labelled as season 2 includes the Christmas special that aired just after series 2 aired in the UK.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 2:49 PM Brad Beam <b....@suddenlink.net> wrote:
--From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam Bowie
>More recently, aside from Game of Thrones, she had a lovely cameo in a beautiful little comedy called The Dectorists (may be on Netflix) where she played the mother of her real-life daughter Rachel Stirling. And she features in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small which just started airing in the UK last week.
Funnier than their first on-screen pairing on “Doctor Who” (2013), when Mom was causing trouble at t’mill up North as the human symbiotic host of an ancient leech, and Daughter was her lab rat. (And, the writers sprinkled several “Avengers” references throughout the episode.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78292o2CMk&t=108s
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Dave Sikula
Sep 11, 2020, 5:38:51 AM9/11/20
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She was my first show-business crush, and I never got over her.
I saw her final performance in "My Fair Lady" (which, as I think about it, may have been her last time on a stage), and she was everything I wanted her to be. Dry as dust (which was exactly right) and just a joy. Exquisite. In the curtain call, Harry Hadden-Paton and Alan Corduner gave her the last bow and she paid them back by goosing them simultaneously.
My favorite "Avengers" memory? Her final episode, when she leaves and tells Tara how Steed takes his tea.
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