Word: rigg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goaded by Carson's wife Ruth (Diana Rigg), the two men do a certain amount of preachy credo-strutting. Night and Day is much concerned with the van ities and responsibilities of journalists and a free press. Ruth has the tart last word...
Ruth has done a one-night stand with Wagner in a London hotel and develops a fierce unrequited crush on Milne. She is, it seems, a romantic manquée who cannot recoup in sex what she has lost in love. While Rigg delivers all of Ruth's crisp-edged lines with hilarious asperity the feminine vulnerability of the role eludes her until she hears that Milne ha been machine-gunned to death. Then she rages in grief, waving a newspaper and asking what page in it was worth that price...
...increasingly Rubensian Elizabeth Taylor is a good choice to play the aging actress heroine, Prince has photographed his star so uncharitably that she looks like a raunchy barmaid. Most of the supporting players, including the talented Len Cariou, are stage actors with no screen presence. At least Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, playing the cattiest of the women in Hugh Wheeler's overly bitchy script, provide Night Music with a glimmer of razzle-dazzle...
Born. To Diana Rigg, 38, auburn-haired Shakespearean actress best known as the karate-chopping counterspy in TV's The Avengers, and Archie Stirling, 35, a businessman and her companion for a year: their first child, a girl; in London...
...speakers aren't really Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Diana Rigg and Tony Britton just sound like them in an upcoming BBC comedy skit wickedly titled "Public Lives." The Liz-Dick nuptial parody is part of a six-week series starring the British-born Rigg, 38, who also plays English Actress Celia Johnson in the 1946 movie Brief Encounter. Rigg is especially proud of her transformation into Taylor. Says she: "I did the major makeup work myself. The black wig, the beauty spot-and showing off the cleavage...