BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Author and presenter James Naughtie replaces Avengers actress Dame Diana Rigg as chancellor of Stirling University.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
"The Duchess" reminds us that non-traditional families are nothing new, certainly not to weirdo nobility across the pond.
007 Bond Supplement (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Don't forget to check out my different view of last year's James Bond 007 news. (Note this page updates monthly)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Dame Helen Mirren is to return to the stage for the first time in six years. The Oscar-winning actress, 63, will star in a three-month run of Jean Racine's 17th-century drama, Phèdre, at the National Theatre.
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
By David Lambert - Warner Home Video and The BBC have announced that January 13th will see a DVD release titled The Henry James Collection. Works of the classic author (1843-1916) have a long history... (more)
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
One-night-stand James Bond George Lazenby tracks a killer in this Venice-set Italian horror-thriller. Rating:2
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Is it really wrong to watch this YouTube clip from the new series of Extras and think ‘Ooh, Diana Rigg - somehow still quite foxy.” It probably is, isn’t it. Apart from being some sort of appaling pervert, I think I know the reason I felt just a little bit of phwooar watching that. [...]
Not PC (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Seeing this is my million-day, and this is my blog, here are pics of two of my favourite people, Frank Lloyd Wright and Diana Rigg. And the politics? Today, you'll have to head to other places to keep track of today's continuously changing political events. I'm a blogger, not a journalist. ;^)
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
The Arm Chair Blogger (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Bob Crampsey, the Voice and the Authority on Scottish Football has died aged 78, after battling Parkinson’s Disease. Crampsey was one of the most respected commentators and journalists in Scotland. With his death we have lost the one man who was trusted by all sides, the one man who brought balance and perspective to every [...]
Kate Stone (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
It is hot here in Santa Fe. It has been hot for months. Now with the monsoon season upon us it is hot and humid, a combo I don’t tolerate well. I haven’t been blogging much because I keep taking off for higher mountain ranges to the north where the temperature is lower and there is shade [...]
Werner Patels (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
It's hard to believe that the former leather-suited karate girl Emma Peel, a.k.a Dame Diana Rigg, is seventy years old. She was born in Yorkshire (love the place) on July 20, 1938. According to an extensive interview with the Daily Telegraph, it is revealed, for example, that 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...
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Mrs. Peel, you're still needed... and wanted. Diana Rigg , who played the coolly delicious, leather-clad Emma Peel in the playful '60s British spy series " The Avengers ," turned 70 on Sunday. A birthday Search salute exploded: Lookups for the septugenarian surged a staggering 90,086%, landing her leather boots among the day's top 25 terms. That's more searches than Miley Cyrus with her new "Breakout"...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I usually frown heavily upon newspaper features and obituaries that focus on older people, yet are accompanied by photographs of them when they were considerably younger. (Who are they kidding, anyway') Yet here I am, using a shot of actress Diana Rigg taken during her sensual prime to illustrate a post about her turning 70 years old today. My only excuse is that I always think of Ms. Rigg (born
BLCKDGRD (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Diana Rigg, my favorite ex-lover ever! The private rehearsals for this episode were OMFG! Best show ever.
