Farrah Fawcett R.I.P.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8118426.stm

:( rip

The actress earned a string of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her small screen roles, but never won one of the major awards.

Uh those are major awards.

nominated, but never won

Oh I see. What's happened to my reading comprehension?

"The Burning Bed" was my first introduction to FF and it was fucking harrowing. She should have won for that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPeKtGNbMc4

Farrah + Charles Grodin + Art Carney

Terrible news. I hope she's at peace.

man, anal cancer... ugh what a way to go. sounds almost as bad as hydrocele testis

RIP

RIP -- glad she's finally out of pain.

sigh.. I guess this worked out pretty conveniently for Melissa Joan Hart after all.

FWIW, FF represented womanhood itself to my teenage older sisters in the late-70s, at least as the epitome of all things hair-wise. Probably would have been my first crush if I had been born slightly earlier, but that honor goes to Lynda Carter instead. RIP.

didn't she have a reality show late in her life? i watched it once, i think... she seemed like a fun girl

Things I never knew:

Her contract for "Charlie's Angels" stipulated that she had to be home every night by 6:30 to make Majors' dinner at their Bel-Air home, but the domesticity didn't last. While on location in 1979, Majors arranged for his dashing buddy O'Neal to look in on Fawcett. By fall, she had moved into O'Neal's Malibu beachfront home, Time magazine reported in 1997.

And something about the poster:

oday we know that the poster image was shot by freelance photographer Bruce McBroom on behalf of a now-defunct Ohio company called Pro Arts Inc., using a Nikon-F camera. He took it in early 1976 near the pool at the Bel-Air home Fawcett-Majors shared with her then-husband, when she was 29 and had not yet made her TV debut as "Charlie's Angels" crime fighter Jill Munroe (that debut came on Sept. 22, 1976, around the same time the poster was released).

There was no stylist -- Fawcett-Majors did her own hair and makeup. And the Indian-blanket backdrop was a last-minute addition the photographer grabbed from the front seat of his '37 Chevy. The subject of the photos decided which shot would become the poster. She would eventually own the copyright to the image as well.

By March 1977, it had sold 5 million copies. Today that number is north of 12 million

That was the greatest pinup poster in the history of humanity, just ahead of Betty Grable's fine fine ass.

Wow. RIP.

I've never seen that poster before... It looks kinda scary, her smile is so wide and unnatural.

Um, sorry. RIP.

so whose decision was it to ice those nipples

she was just happy to see me

can't believe you've never seen that poster. and i can't believe you don't like it! the smile is both unnatural and entirely natural at the same time. i love it.

stfu tuomas

oh wow. i knew that she was sick, but still this is really sad. like so many suburban kids during the 70s, farrah was my first "it girl." that she was also likable, talented and very, very human (something i learned about as a teenager) made her even more special.

RIP ;_;

yeah, you know, when i watched her on TV, she did seem very, very human

it was really nice

"man, anal cancer"

yeesh, poor farrah. she seemed so screwed up for so long. i think that's how antonin artaud died too. they both had great cheekbones.

anal cancer? :-(

oh jeez :(

artaud would have dug farrah in the off-broadway production of extremities. especially that one performance when an actual stalker confronted her while she was on stage.

my favorite joke from the 70's:

did you hear about the Egyptian plumbing student?

yeah, he's a pharaoh faucet major.

"The Today Show" ran a weeklong interview with Ryan O'Neal not too long ago in which he discussed those creepy home movies Fawcett and her best friend filmed as she did the chemo; it was pretty obvious that the end was near. O'Neal looked destroyed.

I know it's sad and all, but I was more shocked when I discovered a local presenter had commited suicide. :-(((( She was only 37. Just divorced from her female partner and leaves behind a kid. Apparently burnout, difficulties with motherhood (combining it with a job) and most of all the divorce made her "step out of life" (as we say so beautifully over here).

I watched her TV special. You could totally see it was a case of when not if. Poor Ryan O'Neal, he just seemed so utterly devastated.

didn't he just remarry her last week?

I never saw her in anything. I knew as a teen that "Charlie's Angels" was not for MY ILK.

Me too, Nathalie. RIP Yasmine

xxpost

I didn't see Yasmine coming at all, although it was well known that she was battling depression. Still, so sad. Especially the way she did it.

Dr Morbius, they were planning to in the coming days but didn't manage to.

wait, she had a small part in Logan's Run. I saw that (fairly recently).

also, myra breckinridge iirc

wait, she had a small part in Logan's Run.

I had forgotten this until I saw it recently, too. She works in the laser surgery clinic, I think.

I didn't remember her in The Apostle, either!

Jammin' in heaven with MJ and Ed McMahon.