MILLENNIUM MOMENT

After a busy day at work on the set of “Myra Breckinridge,” Raquel Welch

always enjoyed coming home to her townhouse at the Park Newport

Apartments.

The international film star moved to Newport Beach in 1970, citing the fact that the area had “less smog.”

These days, Welch is more likely to frequent a five-bedroom villa in

Beverly Hills, and she has gone from acting in “Myra Breckinridge,” a

movie about a transsexual, to acting in Julie Andrews’ role in

“Victor/Victoria,” a musical about a woman who pretends to be a

transvestite.

* MILLENNIUM MOMENT celebrates the people who have made a major

contribution to the Newport-Mesa community during this century.