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Poor Farrah Fawcett. She had devoted her final years to "perhaps her greatest role," as CBS anchor Katie Couric put it, "a model of bravery as she stood up to cancer." Fawcett allowed herself to be profiled as she was dying of anal cancer in an NBC documentary Farrah's Story produced by her friend Alana Stewart. NBC's Lee Cowan reminded us of "her signature hair gone, her wincing in pain, pictures she wanted the world to see, determined to fight the cancer that eventually killed her." Yet when death finally came, her curtain call was overshadowed by Michael Jackson.
Nevertheless, CBS' Couric reminded us of Fawcett's image "in a one-piece red swimsuit that sold an estimated 12m copies and became as emblematic of the '70s as disco." ABC's David Muir called her "a television icon, a blonde bombshell in the truest sense whose glamour and smile first captivated the American audience in the '70s." NBC's Cowan stated that "every teenage boy" had the poster in his room. "There was also her golden halo, the looks that made her the perfect Angel for Charlie."
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