@overholt A line that has always stuck in my head was penned by someone (though I do not recall the source) about another controversial cinematic entity connected to Gore Vidal, 'Myra Breckenridge':
'The book that should never have been written is now the movie that should never have been made.'
@usluck Is that a still from 'Myra Breckenridge', widely considered the worst movie ever made by a major Hollywood studio?
#movies #MyraBreckenridge #Hollywood #RaquelWelch #FarrahFawcett
I'm likely the only one amused by this, but
When I searched for Martha Brockenbrough, my tablet suggested "Breckenridge" and I was like oh no, that's right, Raquel Welch died.
#RaquelWelch reminiscing about her #MyraBreckenridge costar #MaeWest
"She's got a lot of chutzpah and she's completely bonkers."
https://www.altfg.com/film/raquel-welch-myra-breckenridge/
#GoreVidal's satirical novel is excellent. #MichaelSarne's 1970 #movie version was a critical & #boxoffice cataclysm.
Raquel Welch. Actress: Die drei Musketiere. A new reigning '60s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, Eine Million Jahre vor unserer Zeit (1966), if nothing else, captured the hearts and libidos of modern men (not to mention their teenage sons)...
#RIP #RaquelWelch (1940–2023)
Briefly – but memorably – a #film star in the mid-'60s, displaying her looks/physique in #movies like ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., FANTASTIC VOYAGE, & the disastrous #MyraBreckenridge, in which she's the sultry result of a sex-change op. (She and costar #MaeWest didn't get along at all.)
At her best in #JamesIvory's underrated #TheWildParty (1975), a precursor to last year's #Babylon.
Welch's orgiastic dance at her 1920s #Hollywood party is 1 of #cinema's highlights.
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