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...shows that do not line up in the lower-middle class seem to fall into the cutesy class, where sex is more explicitly winked at than in previous years. In last week's first episode of NBC's Diana, starring Diana Rigg as what the producers identify as a "fun-loving divorcee" (a somewhat more sophisticated Mary Tyler Moore?), Diana slept in the same bed with a drunken stranger. In NBC's The Girl with Something Extra, E.S.P. is the coyly reconcilable difference between Newlyweds Sally Field (the former Flying Nun) and John Davidson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: Under Arrest | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Diana Rigg, 33, British actress who played the sultry, liberated karate expert of television's The Avengers; and Israeli Artist Menachen Gueffen, 43; she for the first time, he for the second; in London; on July 6. Trained originally as a Shakespearean actress, since 1972 Rigg has been a leading lady with England's National Theater Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1973 | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen to Lionheart declaim passages from the pertinent play before he kills them. Besides Price, who is at his most enjoyably fulsome, the large cast includes a bounty of fine British players: Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Milo O'Shea, Eric Sykes and, as those viperous but ill-fated critics, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley and Dennis Price. The movie is bright and, a good deal of the time, quite funny. It is farce as broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...Diana Rigg. American TV audiences know a certain Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel, that so-cool, so-luscious British counterspy with wicked brown eyes and auburn hair who effortlessly karate-chopped and kneed her way through 34 episodes of The Avengers. If this is the same Rigg, what's a pop actress like that doing in a nice place like Shakespeare? "I'm both a commercial and classical actress," Diana says flatly. "They want to box me up, frame me and put a title under me, but I defy that. Besides, it doesn't matter what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Who Is That Lady? | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Peter Hall's film of a Midsummer Night''s Dream, with Diana Rigg and the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be shown at 8 and 10 p.m. at ELIOT HOUSE DINING HALL, Friday and Saturday nights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

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