Posted on 07/02/2009 11:48:25 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Dying on the same day as Michael Jackson, the passing of actress and American sex symbol Farrah Fawcett at age 62 became somewhat of a secondary story.
Amy Wallace with The Daily Beast, however, produced an excellent story on the beautiful Texan that should interest Western Standard readers.
In an email exchange with Fawcett just months before her death, Wallace discovered that novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand was a fan of the actress. Wallace wrote:
But here are a few things that almost no one knew about Fawcett:
1) Fawcett and the writer Ayn Rand shared a birthday, February 2.
2) Rand, the inventor of the philosophical system called Objectivism, never missed an episode of Charlie’s Angels. She was such a Fawcett fan, in fact, that she sought to cast the actress as the lead in a planned TV miniseries version of her best-known work, the gargantuan novel Atlas Shrugged. (NBC later scrapped the project).
3) Rand, perhaps better than anyone else, helped Fawcett understand her place in American culture.
Would Farrah Fawcett have made a good Dagny Taggart, the tough and able railroad executive in the novel Atlas Shrugged?
I’m sure Hank Rearden would have approved.
Same birthday, look alike - were they identical twins, separated at birth??!!
big whoop
Farrah was skinny enough and would look good in a business suit. However, she would have to straighten her hair. Dagny had a subtle but unmistakably powerful femininity.
I have to laugh about Ayn Rand watching “Charlie’s Angels”. I detested the show (although I love Ayn Rand, despite her many faults). I think the show captured her sense of heroes being almost comical super heroes.
Ayn Rand was rather strange.
In a related story: Carl Sagan never missed an episode of “Hee Haw” with Buck Owens.
meh. I haven’t seen all that much of Fawcett’s work to judge her range, and Charlie’s Angels was not the kind of thing that demonstrated acting prowess. Besides, I thoought Jaclyn Smith was the hottest one.
imho I think Fawcett became fragmented when she hooked up with Ryan O’Neal and his clan.
It’s easy to lose your soul in Hollywood and at some point in her career she sold out. I think her most difficult years began when her son Redmond @ age 4 began giving her behavioral problems given the tumultuous relationship and instability she had with the father, Ryan. Ryan O’Neal is a renowned narcissist stemming from his own upbringing.
There was an “artsy fartsy” side to her and somehow i’ve come believe she could have been a muse for a much greater man, but what can you do when you put a narcissist and mirror in one room?
Really? I would have thought Kate Jackson as Dagny.
I’m sure he would have too. However, I can’t see her as Dagny.
My Grandfather had a Feb 2 Birthday, and was politically Libertarian... Must be something about the day
Elvis had to watch Romper Room every day or didn’t want to sing.
Rand was a great Marilyn Monroe fan, too. She apparently had a thing for hotties, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I'd be more impressed if she admitted to being able to sit through an entire viewing of Sunburn.
Miss Frances was very alluring and Elvis was a known Do-Bee.
See if you can find a cpy f The Buringing Bed” w/ Farrah
Abused wife finally kills husband by setting bed on fire. Before I get flamed for the whole abused wife issue, watch the film to get an idea of Farrah’s acting capabilities.
I am not promoting the movie for content - that’s up to you to decide
Ironically, now the Atlas Shrugged project is about to scrap NBC...
The correct word is "something." Also, the "passing" of Farrah Fawcett did not die on the same day as Michael Jackson.
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