Charlie's Angel

And yet another American icon has become an angel.  Farrah Fawcett-Majors, as she was once known, was a scintillating sex-symbol of the 70s.  When the TV series Charlie's Angels made its debut in the 70s, three young women would capture the imagination of not only young teens in search of pin-ups, but a nation who wanted to see what perils these young investigators would get caught in.  And who were these gorgeous women?  Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith.  The only angel I was familiar with was Kate Jackson, as she was a character on the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.  Farrah and Jaclyn were relatively new to me.  But of the three, Farrah Fawcett would become the most recognized.  My cousin Rudy had posters of her all over his room and of course his t-shirt with her face emblazoned on it.  Her poster was as popular as my growing up pin-up idol, Raquel Welch, in her dinosaur-pic costume.  And Farrah would attempt the silver screen.  She played a somewhat "ditsy" attendant at the New You Shop in the science fiction film Logan's Run and helps Logan and Jessica in their dilemma.  Her tour-de-force performance, was in The Burning Bed in which she portrays a very abused wife.  Paul LeMat is the abusing husband, and he gets his just desserts.  She deservedly earned an Emmy nomination for this performance.  This made-for-TV film showed us she could act well in situations many women could relate to.  I wish I could say I was a big fan of hers, but I did like the work she did.  Learning of her illness was sad, and then reading of her passing...well, she is now at peace.