My childhood days as a "fan"
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feliciakwToday marks the passing of Farrah Fawcett (formerly, and how I knew her when I was growing up, Farrah Fawcett-Majors).
When I was but a wee lass, Charlie's Angels was one of my favorite TV shows. My cousin and I had the dolls (I had Sabrina, Jill, Kelly, and Kris), and when we played pretend, I always opted to be Jill (Farrah's character), while Cousin J's favorite was Sabrina. Much later, I had one of the Barbie-sized Farrah Fawcett dolls, but iirc, I sold her on eBay a long time back (and put the money toward the piano I now own). I had the CA trading cards and the board game. I had the lunch box. I even remember reading one of the books based on an ep that the library had.
Cousins SJ1 & SJ2 had her famous poster in one of their rooms, along with other of their favorite 70s celebrities (like Leif Garrett).
I didn't follow her career after she left Charlie's Angels (except to watch Logan's Run because she was in it). It's only in retrospect as an adult that I realize she was only on in the first season. I have no idea what she was like as a person (other than what I saw on her reality show with Ryan O'Neal, and I was not impressed). But as a player on one of my favorite TV shows, she played a rather significant part in my childhood pretend.
When I was but a wee lass, Charlie's Angels was one of my favorite TV shows. My cousin and I had the dolls (I had Sabrina, Jill, Kelly, and Kris), and when we played pretend, I always opted to be Jill (Farrah's character), while Cousin J's favorite was Sabrina. Much later, I had one of the Barbie-sized Farrah Fawcett dolls, but iirc, I sold her on eBay a long time back (and put the money toward the piano I now own). I had the CA trading cards and the board game. I had the lunch box. I even remember reading one of the books based on an ep that the library had.
Cousins SJ1 & SJ2 had her famous poster in one of their rooms, along with other of their favorite 70s celebrities (like Leif Garrett).
I didn't follow her career after she left Charlie's Angels (except to watch Logan's Run because she was in it). It's only in retrospect as an adult that I realize she was only on in the first season. I have no idea what she was like as a person (other than what I saw on her reality show with Ryan O'Neal, and I was not impressed). But as a player on one of my favorite TV shows, she played a rather significant part in my childhood pretend.
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Date: 2009-06-25 06:23 pm (UTC)Back in '82, when I was going down to NYC every weekend to hang out with my friends, we picked a place called Charlie's to have lunch one Saturday afternoon. We were gabbing a mile a minute when one of us glanced toward the door and noticed two new arrivals: Ryan and Farrah. She had no makeup on, and had her hair pulled back in a ponytail. Without the famous "do" and the makeup, I thought she was ordinary enough that she wouldn't catch anyone's eye on the street. But there she was, having lunch a couple of tables away from us.
I hope he can find some peace in knowing he did everything he could for her, and then some.