Maybe they're not back.

Maybe it's like on the third day they rose again.... and then ascended into heaven to sit on the right noodley appendage of FSM...

But then FSM will have to do everything with its left appendage....

Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86

Looks like another angel is heading for heaven
 

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/FarrahFaw...7916217&page=1

Farrah Fawcett Receives Last Rites
EXCLUSIVE: Sources Close to Actress Tell Barbara Walters These Could Be Her Final Hours
By ALAN B. GOLDBERG and KATIE N. THOMSON
June 25, 2009

Farrah Fawcett, the 1970s "It Girl" who was known for her cascading golden hair, has been given her last rites, sources close to the actress tell Barbara Walters.

O'Neal talks to Barbara Walters about Redmond's relationship with his mother.Enduring a two and half year battle with cancer, those closest to Fawcett warn that these could be her final hours.

"I'm not sure if she's going to make it through the day," Walters said on "Good Morning America." "She's had her last rites."

As Fawcett clings to life, members of her inner circle, Dr. Lawrence Piro and longtime love Ryan O'Neal are gathered at her hospital bedside.

"This is all he wants to do is be with her," Walters said of O'Neal.

From her glory days as a pinup girl whose figure graced a generation of teenagers' walls, to her valiant fight against cancer, at 62, Farrah Fawcett has become a symbol of the will to live.

Those who know and love Fawcett spoke exclusively to Barbara Walters, during what appear to be the actress's final days.

"An amazing woman, with simple roots that ... took on challenges that others wouldn't try. I always admire women that are independent, that ... have a dream and look as good as she does," longtime love Ryan O' Neal told Walters.


Farrah's Golden Career: Pinup, Sex Symbol
In 1976, Fawcett was the pinup girl who launched a million fantasies. The iconic poster with her dazzling smile, cascading golden hair and bombshell body sold an unprecedented 12 million copies, catapulting Fawcett into a sex symbol, idolized by both men and women.


As the decade's "It Girl," her hair, which became known as the "Farrah Do," was emulated by millions around the world.

"That signature hair will definitely be remembered forever and ever and ever ... It was an easy carefree haircut, windblown, but also very sexy and very feminine. Everybody wanted it," legendary hairstylist Jose Eber, who has known and worked with the actress for over 30 years, told Walters.

"...But I think that Farrah ... represented to me what a woman was in the 70s," Eber said. "Woman's lib ...There was a freedom about Farrah's look. There was something healthy about her."

In a 1980 interview, just as her career was beginning to blossom, Fawcett opened up to Walters about her self-regard, ranking herself on a scale of one to 10.

"A nine. ... Barely a nine. I was going to say eight-and-a-half but I thought fractions aren't good," Fawcett told Walters.

"I think you have to have all of me in order to think that I'm beautiful. In other words, it's not just my looks. I think I have to speak and move and relate for you to feel that ... for you to feel beauty from me."

Known for her good looks, the actress later told Walters she was "exasperated" by those who seemingly ignored her intellectual side.

"I think it's a little bit of a curse," Fawcett said of her looks.
Farrah's Road to Fame
Growing up in Texas, that so-called "curse" always lingered. In 1969, as a college beauty queen, Fawcett's looks earned her a ticket to Hollywood where she was discovered by a talent scout. At first, she was one more model and actress surviving on guest parts and commercials, selling everything from shampoo to toothpaste.

In 1973, she married actor Lee Majors, who was starring in "The Six Million Dollar Man." Three years later, everything changed when posters of Fawcett in her red one-piece bathing suit flew off store shelves and she entered the world of television with a starring role on "Charlie's Angels."

"She wasn't a great actress then, but she was learning," said Leonard Goldberg, who created the hit, along with partner, producer Aaron Spelling. "She just had that way about her. When she would turn and look at you, you were mesmerized."

Fawcett played one of three undercover, underclothed crime fighters and "Charlie's Angels" became an enormous hit and cultural phenomenon, working to redefine gender roles.

"What we had for the first time were women operating in what was heretofore a man's world," Goldberg said.

But after only one year, Fawcett walked away from the show at the height of her fame to explore a career in film -- a move, the star told Walters, she did not regret.
"I would do it over again ... I felt that I needed to grow," Fawcett said in 1980. "I find that, for me, personally -- and this is in everyday life -- if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored."

Jaclyn Smith, one of Fawcett's "Angels" co-stars, told Walters, "I was sad because it was not an actress leaving, it was my friend," but says her friend didn't make a mistake. "When Farrah makes up her mind to do something, uh, it's well thought out, it's well ordered and planned, and it's right for her."


Her career faltered, but Fawcett was determined to take charge of her life. Firing her manager, her publicist and separating from Majors, the sweet blond from Texas revealed to Walters that she was no more.

"I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet. ... And with this surge in strength, you lose a little of the softness, I guess," she said.

Tired of being the sex symbol, Fawcett wanted to be taken seriously, so she dove into an unrecognizable role, playing an abused wife, Francine Hughes, driven to kill her husband in the 1984 movie "The Burning Bed."

"I knew that if I wanted to stay in the business, I had to change. I mean, I wanted to change," she told Walters in a later interview.

The TV movie became one of the most highly-rated in history and earned the actress the first of three Emmy nominations.

But if her acting career was finally the triumph she always knew it could be, her personal life wasn't.

Farrah and Ryan: A Hollywood Love Story

After she and Majors parted ways in 1979, Fawcett became romantically involved with actor Ryan O'Neal, who rose to stardom in the 1970 film "Love Story," ironically playing the husband of a woman dying of cancer.

Fawcett and O'Neal carried on a turbulent relationship that spanned two decades. Their first major milestone was the celebrated birth of their son Redmond in 1985.

Though the two never married, they remained one of Hollywood's great love stories.

"I used to ask her to marry me all the time," O'Neal told Walters in an exclusive interview. "But ... it just got to be a joke, you know. We just joked about it."

After 17 years together, Fawcett and O'Neal broke up in 1997.

Four years later, after O'Neal was diagnosed with leukemia, the couple reunited.

"She came right to my side, which I loved her for. And we gradually started to rebuild our relationship," he told Walters.


Fawcett's Courageous Battle With Cancer
As Fawcett helped O'Neal to heal, in 2006, she was struck by the devastating death of her mother and diagnosed with anal cancer -- a relatively rare disease that only affects about 5,000 Americans a year.

"I panicked. I didn't let her know, but I panicked," O'Neal told Walters. "I've been living with cancer for eight years at this point and ... I saw lots of what cancer can do. And I just knew one thing, that Farrah Fawcett was hard to kill."
"Farrah had symptoms for only a fairly brief time before her cancer was diagnosed," said Dr. Lawrence Piro, president of The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, who began treating Fawcett after her cancer did not respond to the first course of treatment. "So there really wasn't an opportunity to find it earlier, it unfortunately just progressed."

Piro told Walters that Fawcett's cancer was treatable, but not curable.


"We had to use the best tools that we could to try to suppress the tumor, but that we would never get rid of it. So, eventually, the likelihood is that she would succumb to her tumor," he said.

With the 2006 diagnosis, Fawcett and O'Neal moved in together.

At her side for the past three years, O'Neal traveled with Fawcett to Germany for more aggressive treatments and, in recent months, was often Fawcett's voice to the media, making it clear that he will always be a constant and steadfast fixture in her life.

O'Neal told Walters that Fawcett is the only woman he's ever really loved.

"He loves her so much," Farrah's longtime friend Alana Stewart told Walters. "When he walks in the room, her face just lights up."

update
 

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/a...25fawcett.html


Actress Farrah Fawcett dies at 62

by Bill Goodykoontz - Jun. 25, 2009 09:44 AM
azcentral.com

Farrah Fawcett, who rose to fame as a sex symbol in the 1970s, died Thursday, June 25.

Fawcett, who was 62, had been battling cancer for two years.

Awwww. She fought for a long time.

Rest in peace, Farrah. :(

And thank you for The Burning Bed and Extremities.

edit: I find this one particularly sad. We, those of us in this age range, remember her poster, her hair, how pretty she was. Then she did those movies and many of us were like "Oh wow!"

I think I will have to rent or buy them to see them again.

And FUCK CANCER.

Wow. How sad. The 70's are officially over. RIP Farrah.

But that smile and that hair will live forever. Be at peace now Farrah, and thanks for the awesome memories.

Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest
Posted Jun 25th 2009 4:30PM by TMZ Staff

Bummer :(
{Farrah}

Maybe he's really having his heart bleached and made smaller.

Kind of unexpected in the short term. In the long term it has probably been a long time coming. I wonder what the post mortum will show.

can't tell if he's dead yet; tmz says yes, but CNN doesn't

They're not reporting his death (yet) on CNN.com. But TMZ has ways of finding stuff out.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Musi...son/index.html

Fox is reporting it ....citing TMZ as the source :lol:

...i think that broke my cherry on the deadpool thing

Yeah, I was thinking TMZ can find stuff out, but they also don't seem to care if they're not considered serious reporters and might not wait for official word.

Fox citing TMZ. I love it.

Hmmm...where's the deadpool?

I'll post a link. but I just found out I had him on my list in 2008, but not this year :(

Awwwww MAN!

Who won 08?

Thanks mon! :)

Fawcet didn't even make the news here. McMahon did though...and we're still just now only being told MJ had a heart attack.

Where would I be without the cellar???

I wouldn't know who's dead or who's alive, that's where!!!

Ed MacMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson


How'd you like to be in the elevator for THAT conversation on the way up?

No one had Jackson, that I saw. Here's mine:

Louie Anderson
Karl Malden
Olivia DeHavilland
Ted Kennedy
Hulk Hogan
Tara Reid
Oprah Winfrey
Walter Cronkite
Daniel Craig
Joan Rivers

I guess Fawcett is more an American icon. I did think she was wonderful in The Burning Bed. Powerful movie and performance, imo.

He's not only merely dead...

RIP Michael

edit: it was just on local news...but not on CNN yet.

The grim reaper is working overtime. Damn.

Extra Michael Jackson O2 Arena tickets made available at NME.com

Katie just reported it. He's dead.

Katie who?

edit - Oh - she's still employed? Wow!

they probably put him in a coma . .. as a prelude to freezing his head

:lol2: I laughed out-loudz, really. Good one Cloud.

I think the confusion about if he was dead or in a coma stems from the fact that they tried holding a mirror to his nose.

LA Times reports he's dead according to hospital and law enforcement.

Holy shit. This has been a bad week for 70's icons.

It sure doesn't take long for the vultures to swarm
 

Let's see him buy his way out of this one.

The 80's are officially over.

(the nineties were over when Kurt Cobain bit it)

He was amazing singing as a kid. Then he gave us some incredible ground-breaking stuff. It was both sad and creepy to watch him turn into what he became.

I feel sorry for his kids. They're still so young, and now they're going to have to put up with all the muck raking about his lifestyle choices.

:haha:

Um...being a pederast is not a lifestyle choice. Some of the other weirdness, yeah, fine, okay. But just because he was acquitted of child molestation and bought off several other claims of the same doesn't mean he wasn't a boy lover.

Was he enormously talented? Absolutely. I was a huge fan of his talent. But he was a messed up human being.

How did kids at Neverland know when it's bedtime?
When the big hand touches the little hand.

A jury failed to convict him. It's slanderous to accuse him of being a pedarist without proof, which obviously doesn't exist since he wasn't convicted.

Whether or not he was though, I still feel sorry for his kids because they're going to have to put up with all this being dragged up again.

eta: I wasn't referring to that anyway in my initial post. I was really just talking about his weird behaviour and lifestyle.

What's the difference between a grocery bag and Michael Jackson? One of them is made of plastic and it's dangerous for kids to play with, and the other one is used to carry groceries.

Ali...um, okay. Then I'm slandering the dead.

Undertakers have announced that now that Michael Jackson has died, they are gonna melt him down, recycle the plastic, and make toys so that the kids can play with him for a change.

Kind of ironic that the first time his kids appear in public WITHOUT those veils will be at his funeral.

Actually, this whole MJ the fiddler thing was all going through court when I first joined the cellar. I think that was where my trouble started here at the cellar, and in some cases, it has not improved.

I'm not mad at you, girl. I disagree with you. There's what you can get away with under the law, and there's what is. Michael bought his way out of a lot of potential lawsuits. That's why he's broke. If innocent, he should have gone to trial and been proclaimed innocent in every single case.

Yeah I know you're not upset with me. Some people were though. My whole thing was that if there were charges, and it went through the usual judicial chanels and for whatever reason was never convicted, that should be the end of it really, and that was my point back then too.

As far as now goes, I just think it'd be nice if people could lay off the whole thing for the sake of his kids, and also simply because he's gone now and if he was what some people believe, then they have nothing more to worry about now anyway. He's gone and it's a sad day for his family, and also the music industry.

The problem Els is that the truth and what can be proved are two extremely different things. For example - was/is OJ a murderer?

It's interesting what American culture seeps so far around the world.

Farrah was most famous for her poster.

http://cellar.org/2009/Farrah_Fawcett.jpg

The Dep't of Making Shit Up finds that 63% of American males age 38-50 have fapped to that image. Why: timing. It was approximately 1976, and America had not really discovered the female nipple. I know this seems far-fetched in our modern day and age, but it was a tremendous advance for its time. The poster was risque. Shortly after this, Jacqueline Bisset would do her white T-shirt move in "The Deep", and America would discover that the nipples were actually attached to larger areolas and breasts and things.

I'm sure the Aussies discovered the nipple in the late 50s, early sexual bloomers that they are.

We're big on nipples down under. :D

You have nipples "down under"? See a doctor, ya freak.

Now what did I say to you about being funny?!?

Umm... Let's make that 64%...

ahem... 65%.

THIS.

Now back to your regularyly scheduled fapping.

As are we up from under. :D