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Raquel Welch has been named as a beauty icon at the age of 66. The actress became an international sex symbol more than 40 years ago after playing a cave-woman in the 1966 film One Million Years BC. And she proved she can still turn heads — without the fur-lined bikini that helped make her famous — at a celebratory dinner in New York The mother of two, who was named Playboy’s Most Desired Woman of the Seventies, was the guest of honour at the event organised by make-up company M-A-C Cosmetics. Creative director James Gager said: "Raquel Welch is...

Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces So you think beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Think again. According to new research from the University of Exeter in Great Britain, the preference for pretty faces over ugly ones is embedded in our brains from the moment of birth and possibly prior to birth. Newborn babies come fully equipped with built-in preferences, including a preference for an attractive face, that help them make sense of their new environment, report the BBC News Online and Newsweek magazine. The Exeter researchers showed more than 100 infants two images that were placed side by...

Did anyone just see Raquel Welsh on O'Reilly? WOW she looks great! She talked about how much she admired Mel Gibson and how she was brought up with traditional values. Bill seemed shocked! Good for her! Catch the rerun at 11:00 if you missed it.

LOS ANGELES -- Raquel Welch broke her left arm in a car accident and is recuperating from surgery. "She's okay, she fractured her arm in several places and is in pain," publicist Jill Bushinsky said. The actress was driving alone on Saturday when she was involved in a two-car accident, Bushinsky said. She said no one else was injured. The accident happened in the Bel Air Estates area when Welch's vehicle rear-ended a BMW that was stopped at an intersection, police spokesman Renee Montoya said. Welch, who is 63 today, won a Golden Globe for her work in The Three...