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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on June 25, 2009, 12:22:42 PM
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LOS ANGELES -- CNN is reporting that Farrah Fawcett has died after a long battle with cancer.
Fawcett, 62, died Thursday mornimg at a Los Angeles hospital surrounded by friends and family.
Her death brings an end to a 3 year battle with anal cancer which later spread to her liver.
Fawcett, a native of Texas, is the daughter of James Fawcett and Pauline Evans.
She attended University of Texas in Austin, graduating with a degree in Microbiology, but still wanted to be an actress.
After winning a campus beauty contest, she was spotted by an agent, who encouraged her to pursue acting.
After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles. Her all-American look helped her easily land roles in various television commercials for such products as Ultra-Brite toothpaste, and Wella Balsam shampoo.
In 1968, she met actor Lee Majors, star of the popular TV series "The Big Valley" (1965).
In 1970, she won her first major role in the film adaptation of the Gore Vidal novel Myra Breckinridge (1970).
In 1973, she and Majors married, and the following year, she won a recurring role in the crime series "Harry O" (1973).
A supporting role in the science fiction film Logan's Run (1976) brought her to the attention of producer Aaron Spelling.
She cast her what was to become her trandmark role in the TV series "Charlie's Angels" (1976).
She played a private investigator who works for a wealthy and mysterious businessman, along with two other glamorous female detectives, played by Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith.
The show immediately became the most popular series on television, earning record ratings and a huge audience.
Farrah left the show was at its peak to pursue a movie career.
The move drew a negative reaction from many fans. As a result of that and some poor script choices, her career briefly hit a slow spot.
In addition, she and Majors separated in 1979.
In 1981, she met Ryan O'Neal, a friend of her husband's, and they began became friends and spent a great deal of time together. In 1982, she filed for divorce, which Majors readily agreed to. Soon, she and O'Neal were a couple and moved in together.
She made a major comeback when she starred in the searing story of a battered wife in TV movie, The Burning Bed (1984), based on a true story. Her performance landed her nominations for both an Emmy and Golden Globe.
The following year, she and O'Neal became the parents of a son, 'Redmond O'Neal'. She tried to continue her momentum with a starring role in Extremities (1986), but while she garnered some positive reviews, the show was not well-received.
In 1995, she surprised her fans by posing for "Playboy" at the age of 48 ad it became the magazine's best-selling issue of that decade.
Her relationship with O'Neal was deteriorating, however, and in 1997, they broke up. The breakup took a toll, and at that time she received very bad publicity when she appeared on "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) and gave a rambling interview, sparking rumors of drug use.
The couple eventually reunited, but never married.
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Sorry to hear it. Charlie lost one of his angles.
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(http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb212/photogirl25_2007/farrah_fawcett_main.jpg)
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(http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb212/photogirl25_2007/farrah_fawcett_main.jpg)
Didn't every guy in America have that poster ?
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Didn't every guy in America have that poster ?
Purt near. #1 selling poster in HISTORY.
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I was too young to have the poster. My neighbor had one and I always admired it. She was freaking hot.
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I was too young to have the poster. My neighbor had one and I always admired it. She was freaking hot.
Damn whippersnapper. ;D
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My most vivid memory of that poster is when, at 13, I went on a hunting trip to Alaska with my dad for Dahl sheep. In the center of Alaska, dozens of miles from anywhere........ In the outhouse was THAT poster of Farrah Fawcett.
I got my sheep, BTW.
AND, a couple years later, I rescued a kitten that I named "Farrah" so that I could say that I had "Farrah" in my bed every night.
No comment on the obvious puns is required................. boys WILL be boys!
Bart
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Mine is the same pose, but with a different background.
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A degree in micro-biology. A degree in micro-biology. Keeping focused here.
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Farrah who? The only thing I know of here is she dated or was married to William Shatner. Sorry guys, but at least you got your memories and posters. Perhaps this will lead to new revival of her career for the younger folks.
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I'm old enough to remember her from '70s. As I got older ('80s) I saw how beautiful she was. For you guys in the '70s, Cindy Crawford is my poster girl from the '80s. I would still like to get a picture with her!
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Farrah who? The only thing I know of here is she dated or was married to William Shatner. Sorry guys, but at least you got your memories and posters. Perhaps this will lead to new revival of her career for the younger folks.
Actually TB, she was married to Lee Majors (The Big Valley, Six Million Dollar Man) and had a son with Ryan O'Neal (Paper Moon) who was her guy off and on for nearly thirty years. He was with her right up till the end. They never married.
A good old Texas Girl!
Great looking, average actor, appeared in Playboy a couple of times and as others have said, that red bathing suit got alot of guys a little younger than me through puberty.....
I'll never forget Jack Elam in one of the Cannonball Run movies and the line..."Can I examine her now, AJ?".....Elam was playing a proctologist!
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Thanks for the iconic poster TAB. She went down fighting a cancer that many don't discuss or talk about..
She was smarter than the roles she played, and will be missed.
I had that poster,.....
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True bummer, and someone who battled it out to the big casino, unfortunately lost. God bless and may she find her reward.
A little something from youtube, not much, but show some of our younger members how pretty she was , and her SMILE, was beautiful. My quote " any one can be beautiful, it takes attitude to be cute " she was both.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHaVTNMLBI
Her vs Michael Jackson, I never saw her grab her crotch, although I would have liked that more than MJ.
RIP Farrah, condolences to the family, Even Ryan.
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I too had that poster....and to steal a bit from Steve Martin....
"Farrah Fawcett Majors has never called me ONCE! And after the hours I've spent holding up her poster with one hand!
(mine was actually tacked to my bedroom wall, but Steve man, he was preaching to the choir.)
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She is beautiful.
Never had the poster, I had the one of Raquel.
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Farrah who? The only thing I know of here is she dated or was married to William Shatner. Sorry guys, but at least you got your memories and posters. Perhaps this will lead to new revival of her career for the younger folks.
You missed out youngster. She was hot and she was a Texas girl from Corpus Christi.
I had the poster too. It's a shame.