Raquel Welch came into the spotlight in the late ''60s marketed as an international sex symbol after posing on the poster for “One Million Years B.C.” in 1966. Her first major role came in the sci-fi classic “Fantastic Voyage.” She won a Golden Globe for her role in “The Three Musketeers,” while also starring in small roles on several TV shows. Into her later years, Welch still held her sex symbol status by promoting her own line of beauty products and wigs. Raquel Welch died Feb. 15, 2023. She was 82.
This has not been a good few weeks for 60s sex-symbols... Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.[3] Stevens also worked as a film producer, director, and writer.[4] She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960. Stevens died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles on February 17, 2023, at the age of 84.
Gary Rossington Dead: Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Was 71 (people.com) He was the last of the founding members of Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Robert Blake, dead at 89. He started as a child actor in the famous "Our Gang" series, was famous for his role as Baretta and the movie, "In Cold Blood", and the murder of his wife, Bonnie, and the controversial trial that followed.
If I were a rich man.... Actor Topol, who appeared in 'Fiddler on the Roof' hundreds of times, has died : NPR Sunrise... Sunset...
Bobby Caldwell (196) What You Won't Do for Love - YouTube Soul singer/songwriter Bobby Caldwell, best known for his 1978 hit “What You Won’t Do For Love,” has died at 71.
Jerry Springer - possibly best known for his iconic "smash hit" show, but so much more... what an interesting man - known for being a kind man. He was a broadcaster, journalist, actor, producer, lawyer, and politician.
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). He was so much more than an an entertainer. He was a civil rights activist and a supporter of Martin Luther King. His political and humanitarian views and influence were well known throughout his life.
Gordon Lightfoot If you could read my mind, love... Gordon Lightfoot Memoir: Read Late Singer’s Biography, Buy Book Online – Rolling Stone
I forgot to give honorable mention to the great Barry Humpfries "Dame Edna". In the day of Drag Queens, she is certainly the queen of queens.
Tina Turner, the "Queen of Rock'n Roll" has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.
