Michael Phillips: Raquel Welch was the star who came in from the Chicago cold

CHICAGO — Raquel Welch died Wednesday at the age of 82. From her teenage pageant years onward, her career was defined and in many ways confined by a gilded cage of marketable, exploitable beauty, sold primarily to men who couldn't quite believe their eyes. She was also a lot more interesting and versatile and ambitious than what those men, women and children saw in 1966. That was the year of her star-making turn as Loana, a coastal tribeswoman in a deerskin bikini in the schlocktastic fantasy 'One Million Years B.