Comments on: Farrah Fawcett, RIP

By: Diane Reel

Diane Reel — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:47:24 +0000

A note to Farrah,

You made such an impact on a little girl’s life, that would be me. I graduated high school in 1976 and watched you on Charlies’ Angles. I had always had short hair and never knew it could be long and beautiful like yours. Once I saw you on Charlie’s Angels, I grew my hair long and was beautiful for the first time in my life. I always say, “Farrah hair”. I remember a guy in the park I had liked so much, but would never give me the time of day, he was so taken with my new found beauty. It’s nice to feel beautiful. I love you and miss you. Love to Ryan. My friends have been saying to me for the last three months, sugar, sugar, i miss sugar. She went back to Corpus Cristy. I was confused. University of Texas. Give God a kiss for me. I love you always, “candy girl.” Diane Reel

By: Laura(southernxyl)

Laura(southernxyl) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:14:35 +0000

“So I was surprised to find myself a little sad when I heard she died.”

Why?

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…”

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:32:51 +0000

It may have been worth working hard for her, and for her fans for her later work.

But, as it happens, that part of her career had no impact on me.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:28:25 +0000

It’s really worth working hard and becoming a serious actress on stage as well as TV. Not!

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:15:19 +0000

My memory is not doing tricks. I stopped watching television in 1981. If she had a great career after Charlie’s Angels, bully for her.

My point is that even though I have not paid attention to Farrah in about 30 years, her death brought a flood of memories of the old days when she was a household name and her face was everywhere. I think a lot of men who were teenagers at the time had a similar response.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:40:31 +0000

Dunno Lex, your memory is playing tricks. She seems to have done a lot of serious acting and winning prizes for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett#Dramatic_roles

But, I guess, that is how most people remember her: in Charlie’s Angels.

By: RJO

RJO — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:00:03 +0000

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o’ the great;
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renownéd be thy grave!