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2A Thursday, February 16, 2023 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com 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.” THANK YOU FOR READING FULL ACCESS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION The Times’ print edition brings you in- depth coverage of the biggest local news stories. 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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 Publish your event Don’t see your event here? 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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. Associated Press
