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Influential Hollywood sex symbol
Raquel Welch has died at age 82
BY MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK — Raquel Welch, whose
emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry
bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.”
would propel her to international sex symbol
status throughout the 1960s and 70s, has died.
She was 82.
Welch died early Wednesday after a brief
illness, according to her agent, Stephen
LaManna of the talent agency Innovative
Artists.
Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966’s
campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years
B.C.,” despite having a grand total of three
lines. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she
successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the
notice of the public.
“I just thought it was a goofy dinosaur epic
we’d be able to sweep under the carpet one
day,” she told The Associated Press in 1981.
“Wrong. It turned out that I was the Bo Derek
of the season, the lady in the loin cloth about
whom everyone said, ‘My God, what a bod’
and they expected to disappear overnight.”
She did not, playing Lust for the comedy
team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in
their film “Bedazzled” in 1967 and playing a
secret agent in the sexy spy spoof “Fathom”
that same year.
Her curves and beauty captured pop cul
ture attention, with Playboy crowning her
the “most desired woman” of the 70s, despite
never being completely naked in the maga
zine. In 2013, she graced the No. 2 spot on
Men’s Health’s “Hottest Women of All Time”
list. In the film “The Shawshank Redemp
tion,” a poster of Welch is used to cover an
escape tunnel, the last of three women he
used images of after Rita Hayworth and Mari
lyn Monroe.
In addition to acting, Welch was a singer
and dancer. She surprised many critics —
and won positive reviews — when she starred
in the 1981 musical “Woman of the Year” on
Broadway, replacing a vacationing Lauren
Bacall. She returned to the Great White Way
in 1997 in “Victor/Victoria.”
She knew that some people didn’t take her
seriously because of her glamorous image.
CHRIS PIZZELLO I Associated Press
Raquel Welch appears at the Los Angeles
premiere of “How to Be a Latin Lover” on
April 26, 2017.
“I’m not Penny Marshall or Barbra Strei
sand,” she told the AP in 1993. “They’ll say,
‘Raquel Welch wants to direct? Give me a
break.’”
Welch was born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chi
cago and raised in La Jolla, California. (The
Jo in her name was from her mother, Jose
phine). Welch was a divorced mother when
she met ex-actor turned press agent, Patrick
Curtis.
“The irony of it all is that even though peo
ple thought of me as a sex symbol, in reality
I was a single mother of two small children!”
she wrote in her autobiography, “Raquel:
Beyond the Cleavage.”
Curtis became her manager and second
husband and helped shape her into a glamor-
girl with hundreds of magazine covers and
a string of movies, plus exercise videos and
books like “The Raquel Welch Total Beauty
and Fitness Program.”
Though she would appear in exploitative
films, she also surprised many in the indus
try with fine performances, including in
Richard Lester’s “The Three Musketeers,”
which earned her a Golden Globe, and oppo
site James Coco in “Wild Party.” She was
also nominated for a Globe in 1988 for the TV
movie “Right to Die.”
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Expressions: Hall County Schools Art Exhibi
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hallco.org.
Free AARP Tax-aide Tax Preparation. 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Feb. 22. Gainesville Senior Life
Center, 434 Prior St. SE, Gainesville. 470-
431-0373, ddoncov77@gmail.com.
“Pygmalion.” 2:30-5 p.m. and 7:30-10
p.m. Feb. 18. Brenau University Hosch
Theatre, 500 Washington St. SE, Gaines
ville. 678-717-3624, boxoffice@gainesvil-
letheatrealliance.org. $16-$24.
Riccarda de Eccher: “Montagna” Artist Talk
and Reception. 5:30-8 p.m. Feb. 16. Sellars
Gallery, Brenau University Simmons Vi
sual Arts Center, 200 Boulevard, Gaines
ville. 770-534-6181, gallery@brenau.edu.
Free.
Arbor Day Celebration. 10 a.m. Feb. 17.
Elachee Nature Science Center, 2125
Elachee Drive, Gainesville. 770-535-1976.
Free.
Grace & Disgrace: Living with Faith and the
Leader of the Dixie Mafia. 2-3 p.m. Feb. 18.
Northeast Georgia History Center, 322
Academy St. NE, Gainesville. 770-297-
5900, info@negahc.org. Free.
Library 101: Gainesville Edition. 10:30 a.m.
to noon. Feb. 21. Hall County Library
System, Gainesville Branch, 127 Main St.
NW, Gainesville. 770-532-3311 ext. 4011,
gkoecher@hallcountylibrary.org. Free.
Church Choir Festival. 3-5 p.m. Feb 26.
Dahlonega Baptist Church, 234 Hawkins
St., Dahlonega. 706-864-1423, cherri.
helms@ung.edu.
ONGOING
Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group.
5:30-6:30 p.m. first Tuesdays of the
month. Grace Episcopal Church, 422 Bre
nau Ave. NE, Gainesville. 727-409-6608,
charlenebestdewitt@gmail.com. Free.
Gold Rush Quilting Guild. 10 a.m. to noon
first Wednesdays of the month. Friend
ship Baptist Church, 3513 Westmoreland
Road, Cleveland. alenekempton@gmail.
com.
Turning Leaves Book Club. 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m. first Wednesdays of the month.
Linwood Nature Preserve Ecology Center,
118 Springview Drive, Gainesville. 770-
535-8293, karin.hicks@uga.edu.
Northeast Georgia Writers. 1 -3 p.m. first
Wednesdays of the month. Gainesville
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Thursdays of the month. Elachee Nature
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Gainesville Lacers. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. third
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Associated Press
Fidel Castro, at right, speaking just after he took office as new Cuban leader during a
television speech, with Cuban President Manuel Urrutia left on Feb. 16,1959.
On this date:
In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donel-
son in Tennessee ended as some 12,000
Confederate soldiers surrendered; Union
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned
him the moniker “Unconditional Surrender
Grant.”
In 1918, Lithuania proclaimed its indepen
dence from the Russian Empire. (Lithuania,
which was occupied by the Soviet Union,
then Nazi Germany, then the Soviet Union
again during World War II, renewed its inde
pendence in 1990).
In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tut
ankhamen’s recently unearthed tomb was
unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist
Howard Carter.
In 1945, American troops landed on the is
land of Corregidor in the Philippines during
World Warll.
In 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of
Cuba a month and a-half after the over
throw of Fulgencio Batista.
In 1960, the nuclear-powered radar picket
submarine USS Triton departed New Lon
don, Connecticut, on the first submerged
circumnavigation by a vessel.
In 1961, the United States launched the Ex
plorer 9 satellite.
In 1996, eleven people were killed in a fiery
collision between an Amtrak passenger
train and a Maryland commuter train in Sil
ver Spring, Maryland.
In 1998, a China Airlines Airbus A300 trying
to land in fog near Taipei, Taiwan, crashed,
killing all 196 people on board, plus seven
on the ground.
In 2001, the United States and Britain
staged air strikes against radar stations and
air defense command centers in Iraq.
In 2009, in Stamford, Connecticut, a
200-pound chimpanzee named Travis went
berserk, severely mauling its owner’s friend,
Charla Nash; Travis was shot dead by po
lice.
In 2011, bookstore chain Borders filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said
it would close nearly a third of its stores.
(Borders closed all of its remaining stores in
September 2011.)
ENTERTAINMENT
Jewel, Post Malone,
Vin Diesel to perform
at the All-Star Game
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah native and
Grammy nominee Jewel, along with Post
Malone and actors Vin Diesel and Ben
Affleck, will be among the performers at
this weekend’s NBA All-Star events in Salt
Lake City.
Jewel will perform “The Star-Spangled
Banner” before the All-Star Game on
Sunday, Diesel will be welcoming fans
and Post Malone will perform a medley
after LeBron James and Giannis Antetok-
ounmpo draft their teams for the game.
The halftime show will feature three
Nigerian artists — Grammy-winning
singer, songwriter and producer Burna
Boy, Grammy-winning and Oscar-nom
inated singer Terns and rapper Rema —
doing an Afrobeats-themed performance.
Once the halftime show ends, the NBA
will host a celebration commemorating
James passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
earlier this month to become the league’s
career scoring leader.
Jully Black will sing the Canadian
Celebrity birthdays
Jazz/pop singer-actor Peggy King is 93. Ac
tor William Katt is 72. Actor LeVar Burton is 66.
Actor-rapper Ice-T is 65. International Tennis Hall
of Famer John McEnroe is 64. Rock musician
Andy Taylor is 62. Rock musician Dave Lombardo
(Slayer) is 58. Actor Sarah Clarke is 52. Olympic
gold medal runner Cathy Freeman is 50. Actor
Mahershala Ali is 49. Electronic dance music
artist Bassnectar is 45. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 41.
Actor Chloe Wepper is 37. Pop-rock singer Ryan
Follese (Hot Chelle Rae) is 36.
national anthem before the game.
Affleck, who stars in the upcoming film
“Air” — the story about how Sonny Vac-
caro signed Michael Jordan to a Nike deal
— will introduce the teams before the All-
Star Celebrity Game on Friday night.
Utah-based group The Bonner Family
will perform “The Star-Spangled Ban
ner” before the Rising Stars game on Fri
day, then again on Saturday — along with
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” sometimes
referred to as the Black national anthem
— at the NBA HBCU Classic college bas
ketball game between Southern and Gram-
bling State.
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