Thursday Reads

 Obituary:  Actress Diana Rigg, 82, best remembered for her role in the UK adventure series The Avengers, has died after a short battle with cancer.  She was diagnosed with the disease in March.  According to her daughter, she died peacefully in her sleep.

Rigg, who won an Emmy award in 1997 for her performance as Mrs Danvers in "Rebecca" and a Tony award for playing the title character in "Medea," was also a Bond girl in 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

More recently, Rigg found fame with a new generation of fans as Lady Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones," but perhaps her most definitive role was secret agent Emma Peel in "The Avengers," in the classic series that was later adapted into the 1998 movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman.

Rigg was twice Emmy-nominated for her 1965-68 stint playing the catsuit-wearing, kickass spy opposite Patrick Macnee's bowler-hatted and besuited agent John Steed.

She was a 1960s icon of sorts.

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Children should never be exploited by filmmakers to make a point, even if that point is about children being used sexually in this culture.  This is what this reviewer cannot understand about opponents.  Many are not rightwingers at all. 
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