One died
recently at 93 and was a beloved star of the TV series The Avengers. All the press has been about the series with Diana
Rigg, 1965-68, as the “coolly kittenish” Mrs Emma Peel. It was fantastic but some
of us remember even more fondly the earlier series, 1962-64, with Honor
Blackman (Pussy Galore in the Bond movie Goldfinger)
as Cathy Gale. Scorchio.
The Daily Telegraph has a brilliant obituary
of Macnee. Quote unquote:
He decided he was too old not to have a proper job, a conclusion reached when he came home to find he had been replaced in the affections of a much younger girlfriend by a French thief and his team of huskies.
That is not even the third-best sentence in the obit.
The other
is a 48-year-old English politician. Yes, English. Prime Minister of the UK,
but English as, despite his Scottish surname. Nothing wrong with that.
They went
to the same secondary school – Eton, obviously – but only one of them was
expelled for pornography and bookmaking offences. Can you guess which one it
was?
So here is
an hour with Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman:
The Telegraph obituary is superb, as they so often are.
ReplyDelete"His corruption began when he was introduced to whisky by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, who had escaped into the garden with a bottle when brought in to consecrate Evelyn’s private chapel."
I can't believe what I'm seeing right now. They really look alike.
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