The New York Times
Raquel Welch, the voluptuous movie actress who became the 1960s’ first major American sex symbol and maintained that image in a show business career that lasted a half-century, died on Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 82.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Damon Welch. No cause was given.
Ms. Welch’s Hollywood success began as much with a poster as with the film it publicized. Starring in “One Million Years B.C.” (1966) as a Pleistocene-era cave woman, she posed in a rocky prehistoric landscape, wearing a tattered doeskin bikini, and grabbed the spotlight by the throat with her defiant, alert-to-everything, take-no-prisoners stance and dancer’s body. She was 26. It had been three years since Marilyn Monroe’s death, and the industry needed a goddess.
Camille Paglia, the feminist critic, described the poster photograph as “the indelible image of a woman as queen of nature.” Ms. Welch, she went on, was “a lioness — fierce, passionate and dangerously physical.”
When Playboy in 1998 named the 100 sexiest female stars of the 20th century, Ms. Welch came in third — right after Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Brigitte Bardot was fourth.
Throughout her career, Ms. Welch was publicly admired more for her anatomy than for her dramatic abilities. She even called her 2010 book — a memoir cum self-help guide — “Beyond the Cleavage.”
But when she had a chance to show off her comic abilities, the critics were sometimes kinder. Ms. Welch won a Golden Globe for her role in Richard Lester’s 1973 adaptation of “The Three Musketeers”; her character was a hopelessly klutzy 17th-century Frenchwoman, torn between two lives — as a landlord’s wife and the queen’s seamstress.
Despite a career based largely on sex appeal, Ms. Welch repeatedly refused to appear nude onscreen. “Personally, I always hated feeling so exposed and vulnerable” in love scenes, she wrote in her memoir, noting that even when she appeared in a Merchant Ivory film (“The Wild Party,” 1975), those acclaimed arbiters of art-house taste pressured her to do a nude bedroom scene.
“I’ve definitely used my body and sex appeal to advantage in my work, but always within limits,” she said. But, she added, “I reserve some things for my private life, and they are not for sale.”
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Top photo - that's a nice pussy.
Well, now. Judge who sentenced White shooter in Buffalo had this to say about our race problems at killer's sentencing (life without parole for the cocksucker) -
"The ugly truth is that our nation was founded and built in part on white supremacy. Starting with the treatment of Native Americans by the first European settlers to the cruel, inhumane economic engine nation building practice of slavery. To indentured servitude, to Jim Crow laws, to government policies creating segregated public housing with communities of color often placed in environmentally hazardous locations. To the manner in which expressways were built, dividing urban neighborhoods to create easy access to government subsidized developments in the suburbs with restricted covenants prohibiting the sale of suburban homes to African-Americans. To redlining practices in communities of color, further devaluing those neighborhoods.
To the GI Bill, a well-deserved financial boon to our servicemen; unless, of course, you were a serviceman of color. To the war on drugs and mass incarceration disproportionately of men of color, to the school to prison pipeline."
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A million years BC ago, her pubic hair would have hung like a caveman's beard.
Jo-Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940, the oldest of three children of Armando Carlos Tejada, a Bolivian-born aeronautical engineer, and Josephine Sarah (Hall) Tejada, an American of English descent.
May the iconic beauty RIP. She had a good run.
Ni que fueras Raquel Welch was the typical reply to a girl that refused your romantic attempts, back in those old days when you were a student.
Hidalgo County sheriff: Meteor reported west of McAllen
Glad it was in the fat city not the dumb city of sanbene. They all would have run to browntown for help
Rest in Peace Jo Raquel Tejada.
Smart lady. Married 4 times. Kept the first husband's last name.
(had two affairs but let us not talk about that....she was a beauty queen).
Now that she is gone, Jessica Teta Kalifa will want to take her place. Have
you seen the political signs she has posted around town? I can't wait to see what graffitti will be placed on them. Te sales Jessica, portate como mujer
decente y professional para que te des a respetar por la gente.
Chiches do not win and election, or do they?
Puros mamones!
Egg 🥚 Cage Free Eggs, they never asked me that.
Jessica Tetas wishes she looked like Raquel Welch.
Meteorite crashes in South Texas causing startling boom, authorities say
The only startling boom came from los pendejos de sanbene causing the expressway to be closed for several seconds. The local cherife was leading the startled citizens of el cenote down the highway heading para el norte. IDIOTAS.
Behind them was the participants to the charro days parade Limas/Conrado elementary doing their typical EL VIEJITO dance.
Jo-Raquel Tejada wanted to make it in Hollywood. To get there, she had to become Raquel Welch.
pinches gringos maricones.FACT
WELL, is she a meskin or not?
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