DO YOU MEAN, "DON'T TOUCH"?: Farrah Fawcett, after a brave battle with cancer, has died at the age of 62. ALOTT5MA staff wish her family and friends well.
The Board meeting seemed to reach the consensus that the male staff members (all of us in our mid-to-late 30s) weren't quite of age enough to appreciate her for her smoking 1970s hotness. And I certainly didn't. Nevertheless, while I spent those years with posters of Star Wars and the Bashki version of Lord of the Rings, most older brothers around the neighborhood had the poster. The naughty banter no doubt sailed past me, but the image was a hint about what other things in life awaited me.
And Farrah Fawcett's Peak Hotness was such that she aged gracefully and was, even into her sixties, objectively stunning. Even as we mock the 1970s excesses of fashion, Ms. Fawcett was a woman who, even as icon of an era, transcends the limitations of the then-current fashion.
I don't really recall her talent as an actress -- or even many of her roles other than as an Air Force Major in Six Million Dollar Man, some sort of spacebabe in the horrendous Saturn Three (with Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel), and of course as a Charlie's Angel -- but she seemed to have lived her life well and done her profession credit.
She will be fondly remembered for the next sixty or seventy years by millions of old men who were once young.
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