Farrah Fawcett dead at 62 after long battle with anal cancer

[Walter Cronkite]

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal at the 1989 premiere of 'Chances Are.' Fawcett died after a 3-year battle with anal cancer today.

Farrah Fawcett, the 1970s jiggle icon known equally for "Charlie's Angels," her feathered hair, that skimpy red swimsuit, and her stormy love life, died this morning after a long struggle with anal cancer, Entertainment Tonight reports. She was 62.

Longtime love Ryan O'Neal, who recently promised to marry Fawcett, and her friend Alana Stewart, who filmed a documentary about her cancer battle, were by her side when she died at 9:28 a.m. PST at a Los Angeles hospital. Her only child, Redmond O'Neal, is in jail on drug charges, but did receive permission for a final visit with his mother a few weeks ago.

Fawcett was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2006, and though it went into remission, it reappeared last year. She wanted to keep her struggle private, but the National Enquirer published stories about her health, apparently gleaned from hospital employees who illegally pried in her records. Fawcett even cooperated with a sting operation to flush out the prying employees.

As of a few months ago, Fawcett still had hope that she would beat cancer. Her doctor said in April that Fawcett "remains in good spirits with her usual sense of humor. She's been in great shape her whole life and has an incredible resolve and an incredible resilience."

Not long after, O'Neal confirmed that Fawcett hadstopped treatment, was bed-ridden and has lost most of her famed locks.

Barbara Walters said on "Good Morning America" this morning that Fawcett had received last rites, and that she had been too weak to marry O'Neal, as he had promised. Fawcett and O'Neal dated through most of the 1980s and 1990s, then reunited after O'Neal's own cancer scare a few years ago. Fawcett was previously married to "Six Million Dollar Man" star Lee Majors in the 1970s.

Farrah Fawcett, right, Kate Jackson, left, and Jacyln Smith were the original 'Charlie's Angels.' Fawcett only spent a season on the show, but she's inextricably linked with it.



Jackson, Fawcett, and Smith were reunited at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in August 2006.

Source: nj.com

[Summer Rain]

I heard she had HPV. Women need to go get the HPV vaccine!!!

[Sodomy]

Goodbye America's plastic rose
May you ever be a poster on a wall
You were the face that placed itself
Where teens jacked and stroked their balls

You called out to our country
And you whispered to those in their throes
Now you belong to heaven
Well, it's a shame about your nose

{Refrain} And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never worrying about crapping on lawns or appearing drunk on gin And your footsteps will always fall here
Among America's beer can strewn hills
Your anus burned out long before Your legend ever will

Loveliness we've lost
These empty days without your smile
Your toothpaste ads were masturbatory
And your hair extremely wild

And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words cannot express
The many orgasms we had, in those Carter years

{Refrain}

Goodbye America's plastic rose
From a country lost just like your hole
Who'll miss the wings of your Farrah do'
And we'll check our anuses for moles

[Kellie-Girl]

I heard she had HPV. Women need to go get the HPV vaccine!!!

Lots of parents are refusing to give their daughters this vaccine based solely on their stupid, misguided notion that the vaccine will cause their daughters to go out there and start getting on every cock that comes within 5 miles of them.