Legendary actress, icon and sex symbol Raquel Welch has died at age 82.

www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/entertainment/raquel-welch-death/index.html

Let me tell you, there was no dorm room anywhere, especially male dorm rooms,  in the 1960s that did not have that famous poster of her in the prehistoric bikini on the wall.

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This is one of my favorite things by Raquel Welch. It's from a TV special she did in 1970. I remember seeing it when it first aired. It was later found out that the producers were skittish about Raquel's singing, so her voice was dubbed in by Tina Cole of My Three Sons and the singing King Family. Turns out Raquel didn't actually have a bad voice and she later did very successful live shows in Las Vegas and elsewhere where she sang for real.

This is quite the spectacle. It was filmed on location at the Mayan Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico.

Raquel Welch
"Aquarius"/"Let the Sunshine In"
1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVw8323XOk

She was quite the icon indeed - sad to say goodbye    :\'(  :\'(  :\'(

R.I.P. Raquel Welch

:\'( :\'( :\'(


Cat

What say there, Miss Fuzzy Britches?


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She was awesome in Fantastic Voyage… and Mother, Jugs & Speed.  8)

R.I.P to Raquel. :\'( She will be missed.

There's a very nice tribute in the La Jolla Light which brings up many interesting points and has a good perspective on Raquel's complex career.

Raquel Welch, international film icon and La Jolla High School alumna, dies at 82

www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2023-02-15/raquel-welch-international-film-icon-and-la-jolla-high-school-alumna-dies-at-82

Excerpts:

While attending La Jolla High, where she graduated with honors in 1958, she won the titles of Miss La Jolla and Miss San Diego — the Fairest of the Fair.

But to the world, the beauty queen turned single mom was an exotic actor whose smoldering looks and curvy figure suited the mood of the swinging 1960s.

She had only three lines in the 1966 film “One Million Years B.C.,” but her doeskin bikini did all the talking, launching her to international fame almost overnight.

“I liked that there was something very superhero about her,” Welch told the Los Angeles Times in 2016, referring to her role as Loana the cave girl. “At least I wasn’t one of those mincing little girls; I never wanted to be that.”

Indeed, Welch had a complicated relationship with her persona. Determined to prove that she was more than a sex symbol, she refused to do nude scenes. But her fame was always tied to her sexuality, a fate she accepted with regret.

But Welch earned a reputation for being strong-willed and independent. In 1970, at the peak of her fame, she took a role no one wanted — as a transgender woman in the adaptation of Gore Vidal’s bestseller “Myra Breckinridge.”

On her early career:

After a screen test opposite James Coburn for the 1965 James Bond spoof “Our Man Flint,” she became one of the last contract players at 20th Century Fox to sign a multi-year deal.

One of the studio’s first moves, she said, was to suggest she change her first name to Debbie, saying Raquel “felt too ethnic.” She refused.

“I’m proud of my Bolivian heritage,” she told the Times years later.

Legendary actress, icon and sex symbol Raquel Welch has died at age 82.

www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/entertainment/raquel-welch-death/index.html

Let me tell you, there was no dorm room anywhere, especially male dorm rooms,  in the 1960s that did not have that famous poster of her in the prehistoric bikini on the wall.

https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/poster/7/8/break/images/artworkimages/medium/2/raquel-welch-in-one-million-years-bc-bettmann.jpg

RIP Raquel Welch.  :\'(

These things usually come in threes.

First it was Gina Lollobrigida who passed last month. Now Raquel Welch.  :\'(

Who will the next 60s bombshell be? ???

These things usually come in threes.

First it was Gina Lollobrigida who passed last month. Now Raquel Welch.  :\'(

Who will the next 60s bombshell be? ???

I don't know, My guess is as good as yours.

The View cohost Sunny Hostin, known for frequently making unintelligent comments, let loose this whopper on Thursday's episode.

The View audience loudly boos when cohost says Kim Kardashian is Raquel Welch-level sex symbol

www.yahoo.com/entertainment/view-audience-loudly-boos-cohost-171649381.html


As the cohosts discussed the recent death of actress and pop culture sex symbol Raquel Welch on Thursday's episode of the ABC talk show, Joy Behar praised the late icon's impact.

"You know, they don't make any sex symbols like that," Behar said. "I don't know any present "

Sunny Hostin jumped in, adding, "Well, Kim Kardashian is kind of a sex symbol," which prompted the studio audience to loudly boo the response.

Hostin's fellow panelists also rebuked the assertion, with Whoopi Goldberg quickly quipping, "No," while Behar and a (visibly stunned) Hostin joked that the audience was "turning" on them.

"That's not even, you can't even put them in the same ... I'm moving on," Goldberg said before introducing the next Hot Topic discussion.