Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe she will, maybe she won't. Meanwhile, Myra presents Raquel with her first real opportunity to show what she can do. Although the role is impeccably tailored to her assets and attitudes, the odds are stacked against her. In the first place, it is hard to imagine a book more difficult to transpose into quality film. Such scandalous scenes as a female-to-male rape with a leather dildoe may prove too much even for today's censors. When Author Vidal is not trumpeting the beatitudes of bi-sexualism, he is trying to convey another message: ours...
...Raquel has a shy Puritan heart, she also has the kind of forthright Puritan mind that in early America could probably have reconciled Scripture with slaving and rum-running. On-screen she may be the ultimate prehistoric predator, but in real life she is a carefully pre-fabricated commodity, a paradigm of the harddriving, self-made New Woman who just happened to choose acting as a career. "I'll admit I'm extremely strong-minded," says Raquel. "I don't know any other...
...such a crowd. Twelve-year-olds. 40-year-olds, cab drivers and long-haired toughs. A girl in the front row waves throughout the performance, crying, 'Mick, I love you!' Some real sex now. Jagger sits on the stage, the mike stuck between his legs, singing his new song. Midnight Rambler, a raw rhapsody to rape by an intruder...
...than guttural one-liners, but the pattern seemed set. Then, in March 1968, Fox announced that it had purchased the rights to Myra. Trouble was, Fox was at a loss to cast the transsexual title role. Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury and Anne Bancroft were considered. Fox even tested eight real transvestites, but decided that an uncloseted queen just wouldn't do. Then Producer Robert Fryer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) had an inspiration. "If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman in the world. He would become Raquel Welch...
...Vatican sold Sindona the bulk of its 15% interest in Italy's largest real estate firm, Società Generale Immobiliare (assets: $175 million), which has not only dotted postwar Italian cities with tower apartments but erected similar projects in Montreal, Mexico City and Washington, D.C., including the capital's most In address, Watergate. When word of the sale leaked out, jitters swept the Milan stock market; brokers feared that a liquidation of Vatican securities holdings might depress stock prices generally. Italian newspapers speculated that the Vatican was pulling its money out of Italy to avoid paying a dividend...