In remembrance of Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009

While most heavenly angels may only be given their wings after years of working for the Big Guy, Heaven's newest angel put in her time on Earth, working for a man named Charlie. Farrah Fawcett, pinup girl and actress of Charlie's Angels fame, died from cancer this morning. The 62-year-old had been battling anal cancer for three years.

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In remembrance of Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009

POSTED: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 9:00 PM

Filed Under: In Memoriam | TV

farrah-fawcett While most heavenly angels may only be given their wings after years of working for the Big Guy, Heaven's newest angel put in her time on Earth, working for a man named Charlie. Farrah Fawcett, pinup girl and actress of Charlie's Angels fame, died from cancer this morning. The 62-year-old had been battling anal cancer for three years.

Fawcett's death in a Santa Monica hospital followed her very recently engagement to actor Ryan O'Neal. The couple had been together since 1982, and have a son, Redmond, born in 1985. Before her relationship with O'Neal, Fawcett was briefly married to The Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors.

Fawcett, a Texas native, began her rise to fame in the '70's after dropping out of college in pursuit of a modeling career. Before anyone knew it, the unknown bombshell landed herself a role in Aaron Spelling's hit TV show Charlie's Angels, and was simultaneously plastered across teenage boys' bedroom walls. Her famous, record breaking poster, featuring a smiling Fawcett in a red bathing suit (see right, try to control yourself), soon made her the subject of every boy's wet dreams, and the model for every girl's late 70's hairstyle. Fawcett never lost her sex appeal, posing for Playboy topless in 1995, and again in 1997 at the age of 50. Both issues of the magazine became best sellers.

Outside of her sex symbol status, Fawcett is often best known for her role as Jill Munroe in Charlie's Angels, despite only being on the show for one season. She has been in the spotlight for more than 30 years, appearing in many stage productions and made for TV movies, for which she received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations. Most recently, Fawcett produced and starred in a documentary about her battle with cancer.

Between her moments of glory, Fawcett's life has had it's fair share of drama. Fawcett's abrupt departure from Charlie's Angels resulted in a lawsuit for breach of contract. And the movie career that she left the show for gave her a couple notoriously bad films. In her personal life, Fawcett made the tabloids for her allegedly abusive boyfriends, as well as a Joaquin Phoenix-like moment on David Letterman in 1997. Her son's blatant drug problems and arrests have also been widely publicized.

In the end, Fawcett's fairytale story of a gorgeous nobody rising to fame is a memorable one. Her legacy as both an actress and sex icon will live on in more than just VH1 episodes of I love the '70s. And flowing, feathered blond hair will forever be synonymous with 'Farrah.'

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Posted 2009-06-26 22:07:35

Farrah Fawcett is such a beautiful woman, and she will be missed by millions of people. Even though we knew this was coming because her battle with cancer, it is still such a sad thing.

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