"I had a Raquel Welch in the pocket and decided to play it."
August 6, 2007 12:56 AM   Subscribe

She's a mighty pretty woman. She's a funky dancer. She has hijinks with famous people and Orkans. She sings. She uses soap. She can bond with Janis Joplin and outswim a speargun (but not a boat). She fights. She has problems with buttons (and accents). She likes wigs. She's even a poker hand. And she looks dang good for 66.
posted by miss lynnster (43 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
(I hereby dedicate the "funky" link to hermitosis.)
posted by miss lynnster at 12:59 AM on August 6, 2007


Is that a Raquel Welch in your pocket, or are just playing with yourself?
posted by Poolio at 1:12 AM on August 6, 2007


or are you ...
posted by Poolio at 1:13 AM on August 6, 2007


I took that quote from the "poker hand" link. Because I know how you people are.
posted by miss lynnster at 1:29 AM on August 6, 2007


geriatric pr0n filter ...
posted by homodigitalis at 1:31 AM on August 6, 2007


She's also a Latina! Ok, well, half. :)
posted by redteam at 1:35 AM on August 6, 2007


Rrrrowrrrrr!

That "Orkans" link...still guffawing here. I'd forgotten how delightfully goofy that show was.
posted by pax digita at 2:07 AM on August 6, 2007


Raquel was the first pop-culture female icon that registered with me as a young boy. The first image-goddess that I can remember being aware of. Total Woman-ness. And good lordy mercy, she looked damn good to me back then! Haven't actually thought of her in years, though. Thanks for the post!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:09 AM on August 6, 2007 [1 favorite]


And as Lillian Lust ("the babe with the bust"), Welch was two of the many good reasons to see the original Bedazzled, written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
posted by rob511 at 2:18 AM on August 6, 2007


OK, when the October "Whadduh I wear for Halloween??" AskMes start flooding in, I'm just going to post that fourth link, over and over and over. That Scorpio-- No, the Libra! Any of Rachel's ensembles! Capricorn!
posted by maryh at 2:30 AM on August 6, 2007


You couldn't keep me off her lawn.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:37 AM on August 6, 2007 [1 favorite]


Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it!
posted by sambosambo at 2:59 AM on August 6, 2007


You failed to mention that she can beat the crap out of Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.

"The woman is a menace!" - Kramer
posted by wendell at 3:31 AM on August 6, 2007


Really hoping this was an obit...
posted by Sheldon at 3:31 AM on August 6, 2007


Va va voom!
posted by malaprohibita at 4:31 AM on August 6, 2007


I just watched Raquel Welch and Bob Hope singing "Rocky Racoon."

Please turn the internet off.
posted by pracowity at 4:53 AM on August 6, 2007


Yes, she's always been beautiful. But isn't anyone else disturbed in the slightest that she looks 30 years younger than she is? I'm all for aging gracefully, and this seems just Dorian Gray. Smoke and mirrors. Four hours of MAC makeup.

To me it's more sad than praiseworthy. I'd much rather judge a woman on her contributions to the world than her looks.
posted by Stewriffic at 5:18 AM on August 6, 2007


(And I think I win the award for stick-in-the-mud)
posted by Stewriffic at 5:20 AM on August 6, 2007


Her performance in Bedazzled is both divine and ridiculous. I suppose that's actually true of the entire movie, which is why I'm such a fan.
posted by piratebowling at 5:23 AM on August 6, 2007


I have actually had sex with her.
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 5:33 AM on August 6, 2007


She couldn't resist me.
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 5:34 AM on August 6, 2007


FPPs that have more than 90% of their links pointing at Youtube have got to go.
posted by smackwich at 5:40 AM on August 6, 2007 [1 favorite]


Thanks, lynnster, I needed that.
posted by hermitosis at 5:44 AM on August 6, 2007


For what it's worth, it's easier to be and stay ugly, trust me.
posted by nicolin at 6:23 AM on August 6, 2007


She was one of the titular characters in Mother, Jugs, & Speed, with Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel. (I think she played Mother. No, wait, it was Jugs.)
posted by kirkaracha at 6:39 AM on August 6, 2007


It takes two men and a boy just to look at her.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:57 AM on August 6, 2007 [1 favorite]


No post > Youtube post
posted by smackwich at 7:54 AM on August 6, 2007 [1 favorite]


This 1970 interview with Dick Cavett is quite fascinating. Janet Joplin is the other guest, a study in contrasts.
posted by madamjujujive at 7:58 AM on August 6, 2007 [1 favorite]


Yes, she's always been beautiful. But isn't anyone else disturbed in the slightest that she looks 30 years younger than she is? I'm all for aging gracefully, and this seems just Dorian Gray.

Go and look at Sofia Loren. Yowza.

Raquel can blast my antibodies with a laser anytime.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:14 AM on August 6, 2007


nooby aba naba.
posted by adamrice at 8:18 AM on August 6, 2007


That Aquarius video is surreal (and kinda hot). Everyone was just collectively high as a kite through the '60s, weren't they? There's no way sober people could think up a dance number like that, and certainly not for entertainment purposes.
posted by Gamblor at 8:20 AM on August 6, 2007


i remember raquel in a dinosaur movie when i was a kid. i remember the camera shots up her skimpy cavewoman sarong to this day, wish there had been more.

when presenting an academy award, she told the audience "i'm here for special effects. there are two of them."

ok miss lynnster, now do a post on charlotte rampling.
posted by bruce at 9:08 AM on August 6, 2007


I'm not sure if it was Raquel or Ann Margaret that first awakened in me the idea that there might be more to do with a beautiful woman than just LOOK at her.

I used to watch a lot of old movies when I was a young impressionable pre-teen. I was getting to know myself thinking of women who were 20 in the movies but older than my mother in real life.

But Raquel certainly was special. There was nothing about her that wasn't divine. I saw pictures of her somewhere when she turned 60 and the woman was still exquisite.
posted by Ynoxas at 9:45 AM on August 6, 2007


miss lynnster > smackwich
posted by saladin at 9:51 AM on August 6, 2007


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posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:54 AM on August 6, 2007


now do a post on charlotte rampling.

Warning: posts on Charlotte Rampling will devolve into pictures of Sean Connery wearing a leather diaper and bandolier, or youtube footage of people licking Seannery for his magic sweat.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:19 AM on August 6, 2007


Okay, that's it... I think I need to do a Sean Connery post.

Once I was getting a backrub while watching Dr. No & I fell asleep. I proceeded to dream that Sean Connery was giving me a backrub. That was hands down one of the best dates of my life.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:23 AM on August 6, 2007


I can't watch youtube at work, but did you include the fact that she helped Andy Dufresne escape?
posted by inigo2 at 12:01 PM on August 6, 2007


Interviewer: Would you like to have a sixteen-ton weight dropped on top of you, Eric?
Eric: Don't know.
Interviewer: How about you?
Michael: I want to have... I want to have Racquel Welch dropped on top of me.
Interviewer: Dropped on top of you.
Michael: Oh yes, not climbing.
Eric: She's got a big bottom.
posted by Tim McDonough at 3:57 PM on August 6, 2007


i remember raquel in a dinosaur movie when i was a kid.

One Million Years B.C. Which, interestingly, was a remake of One Million Years B.C.
posted by SPrintF at 7:57 PM on August 6, 2007


Yeah One Mill Years .. buxom loincloth wrestling in frot of all the cavemen. cant beat it
posted by celerystick at 8:28 PM on August 6, 2007


My Aquarius video has been yanked.

*cries*
posted by hermitosis at 9:41 PM on August 6, 2007


Dang! According to this, it says Bob Hope's estate got pissed off I guess. :(
posted by miss lynnster at 10:40 PM on August 6, 2007


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