Sixty-two is too damned young. Yes, I owned the poster.
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The Grand Panjandrum
RIP.
The Burning Bed was a pretty good made-for-TV movie.
RememberNovember
I think it’s safe to say anyone 30 and up did.
Da Bomb
She fought a good fight. She will be missed.
Poopyman
Yes and yes.
Condolences to her family, especially to her son and Ryan O’Neal, who seems to have been totally in love with her and quite a different guy than the one I had imagined based on his Hollywood image.
Kyle
I’m gay, and even I owned the poster.
She was fantastic.
Jay Andrew Allen
My brother in law owns the t-shirt. I imagine he’ll be wearing it this week in tribute.
It’s kind of nice to live in an era when we can say “62 is too damn young.” I wonder if my grandchildren will marvel that we once used to pass away at the premature age of 87.
PeopleAreNoDamnGood
Sorry to hear this, RIP to Farah.
Speaking as a 62 year old, I would say that I consider myself lucky, and the more the birthdays come along, the luckier I feel.
Surreal American
Most of my memories of Farrah Fawcett go no further than the 1970s: Charlie’s Angels, the iconic poster, Logan’s Run and Saturn 3 (which I haven’t even seen). I’ll have to catch some of her later work some time.
Remind me not to care how Lee Majors reacts to this.
R.I.P. Ms Fawcett
The Saff
Goodness but she was gorgeous. The epitome of the all American girl.
And 62 is too young. Peace, Farrah.
spudgun
Never really thought anything about her either way (I was in the Jaclyn Smith camp), but for some reason this news makes me incredibly sad. Perhaps because her cancer fight became so public and she showed herself to be such a tough, brave, wonderful human being…I’m truly glad she’s not suffering anymore.
Poor Farrah. I feel for her family and friends too. R.I.P.
Derelict
62 is WAAAAAYYY too young.
I didn’t own the poster, or ever really catch the infatuation with her. But I can still appreciate that she was beautiful, and she made many people happy through her work and life.
R-Jud
I did not have the poster, being a) born in ’79 and b) a straight chick, but my mother had the hairdo. And so I have fond memories of Farrah as the lady on TV who looked like Mom.
RIP, and condolences to her family.
The Other Steve
I remember at the age of 9 my friends father who worked at the Winnebago plant took us over there to give us a tour.
And there was Farrah… hanging on the wall above his work bench in all her glory.
Bud
I was a young gay boy, and I had her poster too. Of course, I pretended she turned me on, but I would just look at it and think how fabulous and pretty she was.
canuckistani
Kate Jackson was always my favourite Angel, but I too had the poster. And 62 is far too young.
John Hamilton Farr
Farah Fawcett was in my graduating class at UT Austin, one of my classmates perhaps, although I didn’t know her at the time.
donnah
That poster came out in 1976 if I remember correctly; it was my senior year in high school. All the boys I knew had one either in their locker or in their college dorm room. She was our Betty Grable.
I’m glad Ryan O’Neal was there for her in the past few years. He seemed like a good guy and was with her all the way.
RIP, Ms Fawcett.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@canuckistani: I am sorry but Kate Jackson was the Thelma to Farrah and Jaclyn’s Daphne!
I think they purposely cast someone like Kate Jackson to make the others seem even prettier.
JackieBinAZ
I think the joke at the time was “after all that time I spent holding up that poster with one hand…”
Brachiator
@The Saff:
According to the AP obituary for Fawcett:
Imagine that.
In addition to her beauty, she demonstrated great courage during her battle with her illness, and something even greater than courage in finding a way to outwit the media goons who tried to invade her privacy towards the end, setting up a sting to ensare those who were bent on revealing information about her medical condition. And I can’t help but admire how she found a way to satisfy curiosity about her health — on her own terms — in the recent NBC documentary.
Not too bad for an Angel.
Woody
I was already 30 when “the poster” was published.
I ogled it, of course. But at the time, I was not in need of imaginative stimulation.
Damn fine-lookin’ woman…
RIP
cleek
never owned the poster. Farrah’s looks never really did much for me. i thought Jaclyn was much better looking, and i really dug Kate’s cute nerd vibe. but since i was 6 years old in 76, i wasn’t really the target demographic for any of them.
still, yeah, 62 is too young.
estamm
I was in high school when the poster came out. My friends all had it, but I liked the Cheryl Ladd poster better, which I got. Expect e-bay to have a bunch of those posters soon. Farrah battled her cancer bravely and with dignity, which says a lot about a person.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
I staunchly oppose torture, but I think a quick trip to Gitmo and some light waterboarding would be justified for some of you in light of the foul heresy you have released into this thread. Farrah is and always will be the Alpha and Omega of cheesecake 70s detective shows.
gwangung
Well, Farah was my third favorite angel of the original trio…but my respect and opinion of her went way, way wayyyyy up when she started producing a really strong body of work, starting with THE BURNING BED. Lots of pretty faces, but not many can focus the talent to match that.
And 62 is way too soon…
The Moar You Know
I did not expect that this news would be as depressing as it is. I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore.
Cris
@canuckistani & @Gordon, The Big Express Engine: Sorry gentlemen, the correct answer is Kelly Garrett.
Cris
Me too. Little did they know how much they were imprinting our proclivities.
patrick
My older brother had her poster on the back of his bedroom door.
I must have … uhmmm … looked at it 1,000 times.
Godspeed, Farrah.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
A terrible loss — she was definitely an icon of our time and it was awful how much she suffered. Condolences to her friends and loved ones.
Smudgemo
At ages 9 and 7, my brother and I each had our own copy of that poster. To assert my authority of the older brother, I drew a mustache on his.
Cat Lady
I’m surprised at how much I find this news saddening. Perhaps it just drives home the ephemeral nature of youth and beauty, although she had the latter to the end, along with grace.
Cancer is such an awful disease. May her struggle serve a greater purpose. RIP.
CaseyL
I, too, am amazed at how hard this news hit me.
Being female and (more or less) straight, I never had The Poster; what I did have was The Hair. For, oh, about 3 hours…
I have this very wild, thick, exceedingly curly head of hair. I love it now, but in high school I would have sold an internal organ for straighter hair that would actually hold a style without putting up a struggle to the death.
One day, in desperation, I went to a beauty parlor and said “Give me Farrah Fawcett-Majors’ hairdo.”
I’ll gloss over what they had to do in order to get most of my hair to lay flat down my back, with just the tips curling up, and to make the swept-back wings on either side of my head. Suffice it to say I spent about 2 hours in the chair.
It looked PERFECT. I was over the Moon.
Then I went outside.
Miami Beach, late spring = incredibly humid.
I got about 2 blocks from the salon before my Farah Hair turned into one big Frizz Mop. The swept-back wings turned into oversize fuzzy pom-poms rising scarily from either side of the part in the middle.
It was AWFUL. Hilariously awful, which just made it worse, really.
I remember to this day my feelings of joy-turned-to-horror.
Oh, Farah. See what you made me do. *Weeps*
Oh, Farah. You were a very brave and classy lady; and, for a good decade or more, the ideal of beauty a lot of us either lusted after or tried to emulate.
RIP.
Zuzu's Petals
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Another dramatic role worth watching: as Robert Duvall’s long-suffering wife in The Apostle.
R-Jud
@Zuzu’s Petals:
I’d forgotten about that. Very interesting film.
pragmatic idealist
I second The Apostle, great movie which showed how good an actress she really was.
guyermo
michael jackson was also rushed to the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest.
Jim-Bob
No, John, the poster owned you.
spring chicken
I’m very sorry to hear of Ms. Fawcett’s death. To me she was a fine actress and an even finer human being. She will be missed!
BDeevDad
@guyermo: Michael Jackson died at 50
spring chicken
Wow! Michael Jackson has also died! I feel sorry for the sweet little boy he once was. RIP
Amok92
Well we know what the next 4 months of cable news will be about ‘On Larry King tonight, did the chimp poison the Prince of Pop’ etc…
Mike G
Well we know what the next 4 months of cable news will be about ‘On Larry King tonight, did the chimp poison the Prince of Pop’ etc…
And on Fox News, “Michael Jackson’s Death: It’s All Obama’s Fault”
Manic Depression
I too owned the poster as a teen. And I had to repeatedly buy new ones. They kept getting posterized.
Mnemosyne
@BDeevDad:
Today turned out to be a bad day for icons.
geg6
Oh, my gawd. All of the icons of my youth seem to be checking out all in one day. Farrah. Damn, I wanted that hair. I tried and tried and tried and tried. It never came out like hers. But I had the exact bathing suit she had on in the poster. I even have a photo of me from my senior year in high school wearing it, with the not-quite hair even.
As for Michael…well, I hope he found a way to come to peace with his demons before he went. I remember how adorable and ridiculously talented he was in the Jackson 5. And I still think (though I’ll never admit this IRL or even here ever again) that Off the Wall and Thriller have some of the best pop/dance music ever recorded. Hands down. Now if he could have just kept his hands off the little boys…
It’s a bit like someone walking on my grave. Farrah was exactly the same age as my John. And Michael was exactly the same age as me. We’re getting old. Thankfully, neither of us feel all that old and, cross my fingers, we’re healthy. But it’s sad to see these two go, along with a little of my youth.
spudgun
@tripletee (formerly tBone): Whoa, that’s way harsh, dude! Surely we should get a lighter sentence like, say, watching an entire season of “Scarecrow and Mrs. King” or similar…
Anway, I stand by my girl-crush on Jaclyn – so you can suck it. ;-)
Kathy B.
Good Bye Farrah, an angel on earth and an angel in heaven. I am 54 yrs old and you were very much a part of my life growing up in the 70’s. How all loved YOU! How all were jealous of YOU and YOUR beauty. Lee, what were you thinking when you divorced her!! And Ryan, why did it take soo long to propose to her. I know she WILL be missed. Such an icon of our time,. This week we lost 3 GREAT PEOPLE, but HEAVEN GAINED 3 GREAT PEOPLE!! Hope to see all of you at one time or another, I hope later than sooner, but ALL of you were LOVED GREATLY!! THANK YOU!! for enhancing MY life! Or I should say THANK YOU for ENHANCING ALL OF OUR LIVES!!! Thank YOU!! Kathy & Ray
cosanostradamus
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Poor Farrah. She didn’t deserve to die like this. Nobody does.
She didn’t deserve to be famous, either, but… Most people don’t.
So now she’s really an angel.
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Screamin' Demon
Farrah will go down in history with Groucho Marx, Aldoux Huxley and C.S. Lewis in one respect.
She, like they, picked the wrong day to die.
ricky
Brachiator @ 20
The eyes of Texas were upon her.
http://imgcache.allposters.com/images/MMPH/174360.jpg
The Raven
And, here’s the story of the famous poster.
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