Dean Martin and Raquel Welch, circa Raquel Welch Characters: K. Javascript is switched off! Please activate Javascript to use all functionalities of our website. Upper or lower case makes no difference. Picture date from:. This website uses cookies Home Raquel Welch, 80th birthday on September 5.
And I didn't. He said, "Well, that's not fun. I had read the book, and I thought it was hysterically funny. I knew the studio was making it into a movie, and I heard they were talking to Anne Bancroft about doing the lead. When she turned it down, I called producer Richard D. Zanuck and said, "I don't know what kind of actress you're looking for, but it occurred to me after reading the book, if there was a guy who wanted to change himself into a movie star woman" - and that's what this character was about.
He begins as Myron, a very gay movie critic who's totally infatuated with all of these swashbuckling heroines. He wanted to switch over and become a woman like that. So I told Dick, "If this guy wanted to become a glamorous female movie star, he might like to look like me.
Let me get co-producer David Brown on the line. And I said, "Well, I liked the experience of it. I enjoyed making it. I couldn't control that the script wasn't coming together. Each rewrite got further and further from making any sense. It wasn't traditional male and female stuff. It was talking about homosexuality or lesbianism or whatever. It was about crossing the line and breaking new ground sexually. But the problem with the movie was it had none of the fun and absurdity and truth of that exploration, which was dealt with so effectively in the book.
It was just a bunch of weird scenes strung together. It became this sort of Fellini-esque crazy dream that's all over the place. It wasn't the funny adventure it should've been. It was a bizarre adventure with some offensive things in it. A lot of audiences didn't really understand what was going on. But when I wanted to possibly find ways to enhance my character, to make her more vulnerable or have some kind of backstory, he was not interested.
That was the hardest part, to realize that I was really an object. Not just to Don, but to the film industry in general. I was a completely non-verbal object that wasn't allowed to talk more than necessary. And that isn't exactly my personality, as you can now hear. I probably did over think [my lines in One Million Years B. Not that it mattered. I went to the director, Don Chaffey , very early in the shoot and said, "Don, may I have a word with you? And he sighed and said, "Yeah, what is it?
I could tell right away that he was not very interested. They don't want to hear anything from me. Just show up in the costume and take orders. He said, "See that rock over there? That's rock A. When I say action, you run from rock A and when you get to the middle of the frame, you look up at the sky like there's a giant turtle growling down at you.
You scream, run to rock B and we break for lunch. Actually, there was never just one bikini. They made several of them. They were created by this wonderful costume designer, Carl Toms , and he had to do it in triplicate. Because, as he explained it to me, at one point my character would get wet, and then there was a fight scene and blood would get on it. So they had to have several versions of the same costume, and they all had to be formfitting.
So he literally designed it around me. Carl just draped me in doeskin, and I stood there while he worked on it with scissors. Every day, every day. I have people that handle my fan mail, and every day tons of photos come in, with requests for autographs. The fur bikini [from One Million Years B. I do feel very fortunate, because I had no suspicion that a dinosaur movie would ever pay off for me as an actress.
I figured, it's going to be swept under the carpet, nobody will ever see it. I had a couple of small children at the time, and I used to take them over to see Ray Harryhausen. He did all the special effects on the movie, all the stop-motion animation, and he's pretty much a science fiction legend. Ray would show my kids all the little figurines he used, all the dinosaurs. And then he'd show them how the animation was done, and they were fascinated. So that's what it seemed like to me.
It was great stuff for kids, but maybe not the ideal way for an actress to enter the movie-making scene. I even complained to the studio. I was like "Please, please don't make me do the dinosaur movie. It's a classic. It'll live on forever. You could say a lot of things about [ One Million Years B. I don't care if I'm becoming one of those old fogies who says, "Back in my day we didn't have to hear about sex all the time.
My fantasies were all made up on my own. They're ruining us with all the explanations and the graphicness. Nobody remembers what it's like to be left to form your own ideas about what's erotic and sexual. We're not allowed any individuality. I thought that was the fun of the whole thing.
It's my fantasy. I didn't pick it off the Internet somewhere. We have equated happiness in life with as many orgasms as you can possibly pack in, regardless of where it is that you deposit your love interest. It's just dehumanizing. And I have to honestly say, I think this era of porn is at least partially responsible for it. Where is the anticipation and the personalization?
It's all pre-fab now. You have these images coming at you unannounced and unsolicited. It just gets to be so plastic and phony to me. Maybe men respond to that. But is it really better than an experience with a real life girl that he cares about? It's an exploitation of the poor male's libidos.
Poor babies, they can't control themselves. I just imagine them sitting in front of their computers, completely annihilated. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Thomas Paine. You can take the girl out of Glasgow. Exploring the spidery corners of a culture and the weird stuff that tourist brochures ignore.
A photographer's view of the world - words and images to inspire your travels and your dreams. Psycho And Sondheim! Richard Benjamin Rules! Like this: Like Loading French Fry Burgers! Cheese-Dipped Burgers And More! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email Address never made public. Surf Kawela Hawaii. GreenDreams Exploring sustainable options, minimalism, and gardening.
In Saner Thought "It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error".. Bonjour From Brittany Celebrating what makes Brittany unique. Wheelescapades Tea, Tours and Escapades. Robbie's inspiration Ideas on writing and baking. Darlene Foster's Blog dreamer of dreams, teller of tales. The thoughts and life of me Enter at own risk.
0コメント