I heard Honor Blackman being interviewed on the radio today. I'd tuned in for Steve Wright's big quiz, but he's on holiday again so Mark Radcliffe, who's standing in for him, wasn't following the normal format of the show (of course, since Steve has the copyright on his format).I couldn't believe how crass this guy was. I mean sure, most people remember Honor for two things - playing Cathy Gale in The Avengers, and playing Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. But that was pretty much all he wanted to talk about. She left The Avengers in 1964, the same year she filmed Goldfinger. These are both well over FORTY years ago! Didn't he think that at her age (she's either already 80 or she will be in December of this year, depending which source you believe) and with her experiences since, there'd be some other things - some more recent things - she'd rather talk about? I dunno, it just seemed to me that this well respected actress would by now have had enough of talking endlessly about roles she played so long ago. Maybe if that's all she'd ever done it would be excusable, but if you check her out on IMDb you'll see she's worked in just about every year since then. She's even had a part in Coronation Street!
To her (apparent) embarrassment the only other piece of her work this idiot was interested in was her hit single (it reached #5 in the UK charts) "Kinky Boots," recorded as a joke with Patrick Macnee - again in 1964 - since it was an allusion to Mrs Gale's penchant for leather clothing. Her Wikipedia entry records that it was a surprise hit in 1990 after being played incessantly on Radio 1, but even that's seventeen years ago! Doh!
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