Raquel Welch DEAD

[rhythmbandit]

Hollywood megastar Raquel Welch dies after 'brief illness' as fans pay tribute

Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. star Raquel Welch has died aged 82 following a 'brief illness', according to her heartbroken family

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I was strangely obsessed with her as a child. It was probably the Q in the name and the boobs

 

[jivafox]

I got very sad then for a second and then realised I was thinking about Sophia Loren.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I got very sad then for a second and then realised I was thinking about Sophia Loren.

MUCH HUGS ANYWAY

 

[jyxz]

I didn’t think she was that old tbh

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Of course Raq once had a perhaps not exactly amazing if you ask me GAY CLUB HIT

 

[Rita]

She was absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

 

[Funky]

I didn't realise she was that old!

 

[jyxz]

Did this chart high enough for ASFM forgotten hits?

 

[VoR]

I can't say I've seen any of her movies, but she always seemed fun and very self aware. Also, pulling focus this shamelessly at your Son's wedding because you can't stand his new wife is quite the cunt move.

 

[VoR]

[on her Myra Breckinridge co-star Mae West] I do think she was a spectacular talent. There's no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.

 

[Saltwater]

I didn't realise she was that old!

She wasn't that old, 82 is relatively young
Anyway RIP, she was an icon.

 

[RJN]

I didn’t think she was that old tbh

I'll make an exception for people who died this week

 

[GNL]

I don't know why, but I assumed she was a Brit.

 

[VoR]

 

[jyxz]

I don't know why, but I assumed she was a Brit.

Ekland?

 

[COB]

Ekland?

You were DUBBED IN THE END you know.

 

[Funky]

She wasn't that old, 82 is relatively young
Anyway RIP, she was an icon.

I meant I would have guessed that she was in her 60s, not that 82 is ancient...

 

[GNL]

I realise I was thinking of Vanessa Redgrave.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I got very sad then for a second and then realised I was thinking about Liz Truss.

 

[Art Decade]

 

[ButterTart]

82 No age.

 

[lolly]

Perhaps I'll treat myself to one of her lovely wigs in tribute.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

This film looks like a right load of old shit. Was Mae West always such an appalling actress? Does @jivafox have an answer to these important questions? I might have to watch it over the weekend

 

[VoR]

The only Mae West film I've ever seen is her very last masterwork, Sextette, which is genuinely hypnotic in its awfulness.

 

[straightorbroken]

This film looks like a right load of old shit. Was Mae West always such an appalling actress? Does @jivafox have an answer to these important questions? I might have to watch it over the weekend

It's better than Sextette (1978). West refused to share the screen with her and tried to ban Welch from wearing white, black and red in their scenes together. Needless to say, it did not stop Welch. The thriving, jiving Genevieve Waite has a small blink and you miss her (she winks) cameo. The director was a horrid misogynist and the whole movie could well be quite problematic in general now that I think about it, but his other film that I have seen, Joanna (1968), is an absolute hoot.

 

[GNL]

Was Mae West always such an appalling actress?

I think she was less of an actress, and more just a sort of pez dispenser where you pop the head back and a RACY PUN comes out.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I once got chatting to a gentleman in one of London’s more glamorous homosexual nitespots who started looking mournful and said WISH I’D BEEN BORN MAE WEST, LUV. Well, I thought, this is going well

 

[VoR]

I'm in a Sextette YouTube cycle now. I think I genuinely cried real tears the first time I saw this.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I'm in a Sextette YouTube cycle now. I think I genuinely cried real tears the first time I saw this.

This looks like a cackfest as well. I must add it to the list.

 

[VoR]

On Youtube in full!



The gym scene from around 46.30 is really quite something as well!

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

HURRAH!

 

[GNL]

<3

 

[VoR]

I’ll be inconsolable the day Piggy dies

 

[Mike(y) W]

Her name was everywhere when I was a kid in the eighties. Thirty years or so later and I did have to look her up to remind myself of why the name was so familiar.

 

[Finn]

I got worried Miss Piggy was being TERFy here, but on further inspection the 'W-O-M-A-N' is in reference to the song they duetted on. Thank goodness.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

On Youtube in full!



The gym scene from around 46.30 is really quite something as well!

I shouldn’t be watching this at this hour of the day as I have better things to be doing but goodness what a stunning actress Miss West was. Investing heart-rending emotion and relaxed realism into every line. As well as a PEZ container (), this comes to mind

 

[COB]

I was strangely obsessed with her as a child. It was probably the Q in the name and the boobs

It really is quite an exotic name isn't it? See also: Raquel from Only Fools And Horses

 

[straightorbroken]

Raquel Watts was another fully charged one.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Oh my days the Sextette GYM SCENE indeed