Rest in peace, Miss Fawcett.
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That is very sad news. She waged a fierce battle for a number of years.

RIP, Miss Fawcett.

Yes, that was a hell of a battle she put on. BRAVA!
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She was never my favorite Angel on Charlie's Angels (that would be the true leader of the Townsend Detective Agency -- Sabrina Duncan, played by Kate Jackson) and I preferred Version 2.0 of the team (Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd) to Version 1.0 (Jackson, Fawcett, Smith). But, when you think of Charlie's Angels now, you think of her and the hair and the smile and the ease of manner and the effortless style as much as anything or anyone else.

I hope this Angel was assumed immediately into Heaven. Sigh.

I think we owe her the honor of remembering, more than her Charlie's Angels stint, her excellent work as a serious actress in The Burning Bed. She was more than a pretty face topped by a great set of locks.

Agreed on all counts, miliosr.

RIP Farrah.

Ouch. I thought I was writing a nice appreciation of Farrah Fawcett as something more than a mere actress but I guess I wasn't.

Fairly or unfairly, she will be remembered from the first season of Charlie's Angels and her best-selling swimsuit poster from that era. The serious roles will fade away -- as will the Playboy shoots, the ill-fated appearance on Letterman, the ill-advised forays into reality television and her sometimes tumultuous personal life. People will remember her -- rightly so -- as that phenomenon of nature which only God himself can bestow on us. Not a bad epitaph, if you ask me.

Her “serious” work was okay but nothing to write home about. A lot of actors could do a better job of playing battered wives and rape victims, but probably none of them have the beauty and dazzle to send a great nation bananas by posing in a swimsuit. The backstory of The Poster here, from the photographer. Nice article:

I liked Fawcett in "Saturn 3" I know...i know...

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There was something back in the late 70s or early 80s, a kind of ad for some kind of heath organization, or just some kind of health public service kind of thing that she did. I believe Barbra Streisand did something a bit like this, but it wasn't so memorable. She was still very beautiful and statuesque, and her little monologue ends 'Because when you have your heath, you have it all.' She really made this sound profound, and another friend was equally impressed at the uncanniness (most surprising) of this little TV piece.

There was another disastrous Letterman appearance right after 9/11, I was in disbelief. I hadn't known till the obit that there had been one in 1997 as well in which she was 'incomprehensible'. But I always thought of that old TV spot, and what had happened to her. A lot in the Ryan O'Neal family has malfunctioned, Tatum O'Neal said so a couple of years ago. In any case, something happened in which she stopped being 'healthy' long before she had cancer. That Letterman thing was truly one of the saddest things I've ever seen, even Courtney Love's gross appearances were vaguely intelligible.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/06/the_e...ty_death_c.html

Poor Farrah!

New Farrah content from Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/200...e-bennetts.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features...slideshow200909

Thanks, miliosr. That article sounds beyond depressing. Ryan O’Neal was an appealing young actor back in the day and he turned into a middle aged lunk hitting on his own daughter. “Bon vivant,” my foot.

Get a load of Farrah’s curlers in slide 2.

I'm a subscriber to Vanity Fair and I'm dreading the Farrah article already. (It's not that her tumultuous later life is coming as a surprise to me. I just don't know if I want to read the autopsy of said life.)

Thinking of her relationship with Ryan O'Neal and, to a lesser extent, with Lee Majors, I can't help but think of the remark a friend of Rita Hayworth's made about her five husbands: "I knew all of her husbands and none of them were good for her."

As for the photos from the first season of Charlie's Angels -- she really was a darling of the gods, wasn't she?

Reports of Ryan O'Neal's bizarre/violent/self-destructive behavior have surfaced for years, and to his credit he's admitted to much of it, so it's not that much of a surprise. But the behavior at the funeral is depressing, especially the fact that he claims he made a pass at his own daughter.

Funny how Farrah and Michael died on the same day, and they both had big funerals. Everyone thought Michael's would be a circus but for the most part it was a dignified and well-handled affair. Farrah's, on the other hand ...

As I was standing in the supermarket checkout line yesterday, I saw that the print edition of People has a Farrah cover story on the racks with diary entries from her friend Alana Stewart regarding Farrah's battle w/ cancer. Oh brother! She's barely been put to rest and already people are releasing books/diaries!! (And, no, I didn't buy the issue.)

It’s inevitable, I guess (and given Fawcett’s uncommon openness about her illness it’s hard to call it an invasion of privacy). Alana Stewart seems to be an actual friend so perhaps Fawcett knew she'd be doing it.