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MYRA BRECKENRIDGE
June 28, 2019  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 2:00 a.m. ET

 
This controversial 1970 screen adaptation of Gore Vidal’s bestseller made room for cinematic sex symbols from the past, present and future. Mae West represented the past (and among her on-screen conquests here is a pre-Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck ), a pre-Charlie’s Angels Farrah Fawcett represented the future – and Raquel Welch, playing the gender-bending, transitioning titular character, was very, very present throughout. 
 
 
 
 
 
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