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MikeC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 04/19/2006 : 1:29:25 PM
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Apart from the obvious explanation of
"They used a whole lot of LDS back in
the Sixties", there is an additional
explanation of why a TV special about
Raquel Welch would have featured her as
prominently singing and dancing.
There was a time in her career when
she was marketed as an heir to Ann
Margret. Certainly, there are some
gross physical similarities between
the two, but because of this perceived
similarty, obviously someone also
decided that "Hey! This Raquel Welch
must sing & dance, too!"
As I recall, a lot of her movies from
the mid sixties to the early 70's
(up to at least MYRA BRECKINRIDGE)
always seemed to feature her in
gratuitous musical numbers.
There is also the factor that at
that time in popular culture, it
was expected that stars would be
multi-talented in the mode of, say,
any of the members of the Rat Pack.
This, of course, is absurd thinking:
there was only one, say, Frank
Sinatra, and it is unfair to expect
any other entertainer to be as
multi-talented as someone like
Frankie, but that was the common
practice back in the day. Granted,
it led to things like the movie
A HARD DAYS NIGHT, but it also
led to things like records by
William Shatner, Jack Webb and
Sebastian Cabot.
This thinking actually has had a
resurgence in recent years: see
the putatative recording careers
of Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Lynn
Sigler/DiScala and that guy from
NORTHERN EXPOSURE and MY BIG FAT
GREEK WEDDING trying to convince
people that they can sing as well
as act.
Me? I'd get the DVD, but play it
with the sound turned all the way
down, just to see Raquel Welch in
her physical prime.
MikeC, She ain't bad these days, either..... |
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