And now Raquel Welch dies

[teela brown]

She was 82. I thought she was a lot younger than that.

[Zeener Diode]

No, that's about right. And she still had the looks.

[claudius]

I suppose I'm at the age when the cultural icons I grew up with will start dying with regularity, but damn it makes me feel old.

[Detroit Hoser]

I assumed she was already dead.

[Zeener Diode]

Raquel made an appearance in Portland while filming scenes for Kansas City Bomber; a local dive bar was featured in the movie, and they still have memorabilia from that time.

The first movie I saw her in was Mother, Juggs and Speed, an easy-forgettable 70s flick. Years later I stumbled across Myra Breckinridge in the "Critics Pick" section of my favorite video store, but I didn't rent it. Now I wish I had.

[SmartAleq]

Her memorable cameo in The Magic Christian is the first time I recall seeing her--or maybe that one where she wore the bunnyfur bikini. That lady had the [Madeline Kahn] bone structchah[/MK] of the gods for sure. I sometimes wonder if women like her and Helen Mirren didn't make some sort of deal with a goddess to be so fine looking so late into life--I guess it could be plastic surgery but if it is, then the doc involved might have done a deal with the devil to get the right hands for the job.

I'm feeling old too--first album I ever bought with my own money was Sgt Pepper and I remember thinking how unfathomably old being 64 would be and now I'm here. Sigh.

[Sputnik]

She was a San Diego girl. La Jolla high 1959, I think, and she went to SDSU. Go Aztecs.

[Detroit Hoser]

Originally Posted by SmartAleq

Her memorable cameo in The Magic Christian is the first time I recall seeing her--or maybe that one where she wore the bunnyfur bikini. That lady had the [Madeline Kahn] bone structchah[/MK] of the gods for sure. I sometimes wonder if women like her and Helen Mirren didn't make some sort of deal with a goddess to be so fine looking so late into life

I'd throw Dame Julie Andrews and Holland Taylor onto that list of women who seem to get more beautiful as they age. Shirley Jones, too, although I've heard rumblings that she may be in decline. Still, the last time I saw her hawking nursing homes she looked incredible.

[nosey D]

Originally Posted by claudius

I suppose I'm at the age when the cultural icons I grew up with will start dying with regularity, but damn it makes me feel old.

You know all those years you gained by living right? Well, these are them.

And of Mrs. Welsh - that's another bucket list item that I won't be checking off. Damnit!