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My body & soul My Body and Soul: Diana Rigg, actress, 60
Guardian UK ^ | Laura Potter

Posted on 04/21/2009 7:50:38 PM PDT by pissant

Are you healthy? For my age I'm quite good. I confess I do a lot of the wrong things: I smoke and I drink wine, and people might be horrified at my eating habits - I eat when I'm hungry and if I'm not I don't.

How much sleep do you need? A lot. Without it I'm a wimp. I become tearful and hopeless, like a child. I regard bed as my best friend.

Attitude to smoking? I smoke more than I should - 20 a day. I've smoked since I was 18 with intervals of not smoking when I was pregnant and when I've been ill. The curious part about it is I can go for hours without; getting on a plane and not smoking for 15 hours simply doesn't worry me at all.

And drugs? In my late 20s, early 30s, working in America I tried cocaine and amyl nitrate. I can't take pot, I just go to sleep. Obviously I don't touch them now. Many years ago when I was working on Broadway I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking, I gave them drama therapy.

Is sex important to you? Not any more. I'm all for people of my age having a continued sex life, but although I had a wonderful sex life I'm perfectly reconciled and happy not to go there again.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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41 posted on 04/21/2009 8:57:04 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey kids! Let's elect a confessed cokehead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve
That's a wonderful picture of her, you had that one hidden away! Rounded guitar or a mandolin?
42 posted on 04/21/2009 9:00:50 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: kcvl; devolve

Thanks for the pics. Two talented women.


43 posted on 04/21/2009 9:06:41 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: potlatch

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A mandolin I believe

2 in the /MOVIES/ folder

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44 posted on 04/21/2009 9:07:44 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey kids! Let's elect a confessed cokehead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: pissant

A professor in college said I look like her.


45 posted on 04/21/2009 9:08:50 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: pissant

Bump for a pleasant stroll down Memory Lane.


46 posted on 04/21/2009 9:09:12 PM PDT by dighton
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To: devolve

A mandolin but wonder if she could play it. Beautiful picture of her as she looks more ‘innocent’ and sweet looking there.

Wonder what she would look like now had she lived?

Yes, the feather Boa is cut off on the lower left. I’ll take a look at it sometime.


47 posted on 04/21/2009 9:13:11 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: rintense

Hells bells. Compliments don’t come much higher than that!


48 posted on 04/21/2009 9:25:29 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: potlatch

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Fiberoptic cutting off several times right now

I may be off


49 posted on 04/21/2009 9:29:33 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey kids! Let's elect a confessed cokehead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: WashingtonSource
LOL When you get to 70+ time sure does take its toll. The great thing about being 70 is you speak your mind and don't care if someone is offended. You don't have to put up with fools (no dig to you :O) the bed is lovely, the dust on the table doesn't bother you, eat when you feel like it etc. I have made dinner at 2am and my dogs don't give a shi!. Have a sweet dreams....:O) You can guess my wrinkles,(its not a pretty picture) I have been smoking since I was 13...but again, my dogs don't care...
50 posted on 04/21/2009 9:42:12 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: rintense

(chuckles) yea but are you a guy or a gal?


51 posted on 04/21/2009 9:43:41 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

she’s very much a chick


52 posted on 04/21/2009 9:50:08 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: goat granny

Somewhere between a chick and a broad.


53 posted on 04/21/2009 9:53:20 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: pissant
See “Pictures of Lilly” by the Who. As long as she's happy with her life, good for her. 13 years old in 1965, I need say no more. Still a fan.
54 posted on 04/21/2009 10:47:57 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: pissant

Is this article from 1998 ?


55 posted on 04/21/2009 11:32:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: gunner03

in the Marines for 23 years...good on you, but I bet the marines kept you in shape......semper fi


56 posted on 04/21/2009 11:34:00 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: rintense

I think thats where most men like their women to be..:O)


57 posted on 04/21/2009 11:37:56 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: skinkinthegrass
*HUGH SIGH*....
when I was a kid, She was / (still) is "wonderful"
when I was 13/14...thanks for the memories.


Precisely, neighbor. God bless you, Mrs. Peel...


58 posted on 04/22/2009 2:40:49 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: potlatch

I try not to get involved in any of those fashion trends useless threads. Fashion is not our main concern today and neither is someone’s looks because they don’t fit into what “SOME” describe as beauty today. As I said... beauty is skin deep and if some of these botoxed babes would only realize they should be living their lives for themselves first, then maybe they would love themselves more than injecting their faces/bodies with junk that God knows what will do to them when they become the age of this fine woman who was and still is beautiful. She trumps them all...

Maybe they should think about how great she looks today even at 71 years old and how they might look after they can’t take any more botox treatments and their faces have all but fallen off their heads and no one out there cares about them anymore and maybe...how they too might feel when talk like this is about them. Different story I would think.

The world is full of too much hatred, nastiness, cold heartedness and void souls.


59 posted on 04/22/2009 10:08:48 AM PDT by cubreporter (Rush Limbaugh - Truth, honesty and the American Way. Go Rush!!!)
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To: cubreporter
[The world is full of too much hatred, nastiness, cold heartedness and void souls.]

I agree with that.

I mentioned the ‘fashion police’ threads as I couldn't believe the meanness on them when I browsed a few. In fact, I spent quite a bit of time researching “first lady inaugural’ gowns and made up a large post of them to put on one thread for comparison.

Not much was said, because the pictures belied many words that had been posted and that was my intent.

I dislike meanness and lying about things. When I make a statement I tell the truth as I see it. We all have our opinions.

60 posted on 04/22/2009 3:47:10 PM PDT by potlatch
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