Word: raquel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole venture had a ring of effort and honesty about it, despite its failings, and I went to see 100 Rifles to investigate how many of Will Penny's virtues could be traced directly to Gries. Well, no I didn't either; I went to 100 Rifles to see Raquel Welch undressed and a lot of killing, just like everybody else...
...there is no second Raquel Welch. A recent Reuters poll of worldwide film exhibitors reported that Raquel was among the top ten box-office draws. Her pictures are all instantly disposable-but so is the wrapper around a candy bar. "Everyone pays a lot of lip service to sensitivity and artistry," she complains. "But when you come right down to it, it's all money and shooting schedules. They want to be able to write everything out like a financial statement and come out with a neat little sum at the bottom...
Nudity is only one of Raquel's no-nos. She does not smoke, or drink alcohol or coffee. On the set, she tends to be remote with her costars. Making 100 Rifles, she was so distant that Jim Brown stopped talking to her altogether. When he wanted to communicate with Raquel, he did so through her husband-even when it came to passing the salt. When a publicity photograph called for a seminude clinch, Raquel called for a towel to insert in the chest-to-chest confrontation...
...Curtis home is a Hollywood classic: two stories, 3½ acres, a pool, a pool house and a steep, unplanted hillside. Also present: Curtis and the two children from her previous marriage, whom he has adopted. Inside the three-car garage sits Raquel's Silver Cloud Rolls-Royce with license plate RWC. "The Rolls-Royce is good for prestige," she feels. "And Patrick looks like a great manager when he's sitting in the back seat...
...Raquel's next projects are Shipment of Tarts, a period comedy, Tilda, a story of a woman chasing her kidnaped son, and We Only Kill Each Other, a biography of Chicago Gangster Bugsy Siegel and his moll Virginia Hill. The roles are hardly calculated to win Academy Awards, but at least they call for more than pouts and poses. "I feel people are trying to bury me in a sea of C cups," she laments. There is little likelihood that she will go under. "Marilyn couldn't fight it because she wasn't strong enough," Raquel theorizes...