Pebrero 16, 2023

There she was, staring out at the world as though from the beginning of time.

Wrote Raquel Welch, in "Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage."

R.I.P., Raquel Welch.

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Rory ayon kay ...

Still with us: Angie Dickinson (91), Julie Newmar (89), Joan Collins (89), Sophia Loren (88), Brigitte Bardot (88), Ursula Andress (86), Shirley Eaton (86), Jane Fonda (85), Claudia Cardinale (84), Ann-Margret (82), Jill St. John (82), Elke Sommer (82), Britt Ekland (82).

gilbar ayon kay ...

The world is Better, for having had her in it

Michael ayon kay ...

A stunning beauty. Proof that God exists

Lawnerd ayon kay ...

I once had to explain what antibodies were to a large group of non-scientist lawyers. I used Raquel’s scene in Fantastic Voyage as the explanation. Worked. Every male of a certain age in that room wished at one point that he was the one ripping the antibodies off of Raquel. RIP.

boatbuilder ayon kay ...

RIP.

So I clicked on it, and NO PICTURE??!!.

Talk about your cruel neutrality...

Bill R ayon kay ...

Nice bit of writing there. Am I wrong to wonder if it is Ms. Welch or a ghostwriter?

Anyway RIP.

Iman ayon kay ...

Such an impressive woman! RIP.

Randomizer ayon kay ...

Raquel was always smokin' ass hot, but never slutty.

Richard ayon kay ...

She managed to carry it off without being cheap. She was always "almost".
It was a strategy.

EAB ayon kay ...

My favorite of her roles is Lilian Lust in Bedazzled. She’s hilarious. “Can you hear my pores breathe?”

Václav Patrik Šulik ayon kay ...

I confess that I always had a crush on Ms. Welch. Not lust, which seems cheap. She was always beautiful; lust is a tarnishing, capricious idea. I always admired her for not stripping or yielding to the Hollywood grooming machine. Requiescat in pace, Raquel Welch.

lonejustice ayon kay ...

I had that poster of her from “One Million Years B.C.” on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager. My parents did not approve, but they never made me take it down either.

William ayon kay ...

Her most memorable screen role was as the poster in Shawshank Redemption. Her gorgeousness drew focus from her roles. She was memorably gorgeous, but the only performance where I can recall her role as opposed to her beauty is as the klutzy maid in The Three Musketeers. Well, when you look like that you don't have to be Cate Blanchett. She was good with Dudley Moore. Sadly she never got to play Woody Allen's love interest.

0_0 ayon kay ...

Raquel always brought up being a sex symbol so she could deny it or achieve in spite of it or whatever.
But she was the one who would bring it up.

Rusty ayon kay ...

A lot of teenage seed was spilled over that picture.

Wince ayon kay ...

Wince said...

Althouse said...
Meade questioned whether "quelch" is a word at all.

Immediately, my mind went to Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.

11/3/22, 9:51 AM


RIP

rcocean ayon kay ...

She was great in BC, Bedazzled, Bandolero (this was Western not a SUV), and Fantastic Voyage. And fun in The Kansas City Bomber.

I remember her best from Seinfeld, where she has a terrible temper and beats up Kramer. And Fantastic Voyage, where she has little chemistry with Stephen Boyd (for reasons later made clear).

Like Brigit Bardot, she was a strong woman AND a sex symbol. She posed for Playboy but refused to go nude.

Wince ayon kay ...

What's truly amazing is how early Welch (born 1940) had her two children, in 1959 and 1961, well before her sex symbol days.

hombre ayon kay ...

Marilyn, Raquel and Sophia - the first string!

R.I.P., Raquel. The classiest of all.

Narr ayon kay ...

Then there was Senta Berger in "When Women Had Tails."

Scotty, beam me up... ayon kay ...

As a teenaged red-blooded American straight male in the middle of puberty in the mid-1970’s, “Mother, Jugs, and Speed” was the first real time that I took notice of Raquel Welch. Yes, I had watched “Fantastic Voyage” when I was much younger but I was more in awe of the technology of that science fiction movie than of Ms. Welches’ “jugs”. I will have to go back and watch both movies now that I am in my 60’s - unless, of course, “Mother, Jugs, and Speed” is now verboten in woke Hollywood due to Bill Cosby’s various transgressions (telling black males to take responsibility for their actions and then his drugging and rapes of actresses - ironic considering his first mention transgression) and the sexist / misogynistic term of “Jugs”.

n.n ayon kay ...

You can be feminine female, moral, lovely, sexy, and not take a knee to social progress. RIP

Sally ayon kay ...

I've always been very fond of Ms. Welch after she came to Vietnam to see me (and the other 15000 guys in the 4th Infantry Division).

Douglas B. Levene ayon kay ...

I saw Raquel Welch on Broadway in Woman of the Year and she was great, just a wonderful, beautiful actress. RIP, Raquel.

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