Word: raquel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scooter's curtain-time alert is for the flesh-and-blood human being who is the weekly guest star: Raquel Welch, for instance, looking scholarly in spectacles as she practices Shakespeare. Scooter guesses that she has decided to change her image, and he says that this is fine; she doesn't need to wear any of those scanty, revealing costumes on The Muppet Show...
...Jean Paul Belmondo doesn't consider himself a sex symbol." This intelligence comes from Raquel Welch, presumably an expert on the subject; she once acted with the French star in L 'Animal. Nevertheless, Belmondo's charm leaves millions of Frenchwomen à bout de souffle. In Flic ou Voyou, Belmondo's latest film, he plays a cop disguised as a gangster and gets entangled in fistfights. In more civilized moments off the set, Belmondo brushes up on his tennis. Even a nonsex symbol needs a touch of love...
...million years ago. In 2001, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke presented ape men who evolved, in part, by murdering those of their neighbors who had not yet learned to use clubs. Cartoonists gave us Fred Flintstone and his pet dinosaurs. The epic movie One Million B.C. offered a grunting Raquel Welch dodging various prehistoric beasts and cave men with something more than evolution on their minds...
Faces from the '60s included a wood sculpture of Playboy's Hugh Hefner (March 3, 1967) in the days before the coming of women's liberation; Bobby Kennedy (May 24, 1968) just prior to the California primary; and a sculpture of Raquel Welch (Nov. 28, 1969), the sex-symbol star of Myra Breckinridge...
...abashed American accent and bulges his eyes in every closeup, proving once again that he is the last word in screen vulgarity. His crass pyrotechnics are almost topped by Charlton Heston, who turns Henry VIII's death scene into a veritable anthology of hammy acting gestures. Raquel Welch, no fool, sees to it that she is more seen than heard...