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...Raquel Welch: Broadway's ebullient new woman of the year...
...Raquel Welch has been causing tumultuous scenes for so long that they seem ordinary. But the ones outside the Palace are different. They are on Broadway, where right now she truly is the woman of the year. After 18 disappointing years in films, Welch, 41, has found a new career doing what she always wanted but was rarely allowed to do: sing, dance and play comedy. "Woman of the Year has put me into a whole different category," she says. "Suddenly I've gone from being a Hollywood sex symbol to a legitimate actress in the minds of many...
...Welch first took the part during Lauren Bacall's two-week vacation last December, and the critics came down with a case of puppy love. "When was the last time you heard wolf whistles in a Broadway theater?" asked the New York Times. Box-office receipts dropped only slightly during Welch's first week; during the second week they soared. Broadway had not made such a fuss over a temporary replacement since Eve Harrington subbed for Margo Charming in All About Eve. And that was only a movie...
...circulated concerning the show's characters. It was as if Beaver fans, disillusioned by the late '60s, wrote their own contemporary psychic postscripts to the show. Beaver was said to have been killed in Viet Nam. Wally was reputed to have married either Barbara Billingsley or Raquel Welch. Eddie Haskell was rumored to be either Porn Star John Holmes (whom he resembles) or the wraithlike Alice Cooper. The collective unconscious of '60s America, resenting and yet longing for the simple verities of Mayfield, attempted to corrupt the suburban paradise...
...journeyman actor. Ken Osmond joined the Los Angeles police department in 1970 and sued the distributors of Holmes' films to clear up the confusion. Dow is a writer, sometime actor and the father of a son (it was his TV stand-in who was married to Raquel Welch). Mathers is currently negotiating with a network to update the past in a two-hour TV movie version of Leave It to Beaver, starring the original cast (minus the late Hugh Beaumont), with Beaver playing Father Cleaver, and a new generation of pesky children...