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?
LMAO.....stay safe !
Rand may have been a great dramatist, but she sure had lousy taste in TV programs.
"And I see Susie, and I see Johnny, and I see Elvis..." ;o)
Farrah was good, but to play the lead in the second most influential book behind the Bible? It’s too much to give to someone of only good talent.
Do you really think Rand’s work was more influential than other religious texts like the Koran? Or the work of Shakespeare and Tolstoy or scientists like Newton and Maxwell?
That's where it comes out in reader surveys by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club.
Objectivists (and Scientologists) are notorious for spamming polls like that.
Rule #1: Don’t like a survey, find a way to discredit it.
And if Scientologists spammed, funny Dianetics or others are not on the list. The Book of Mormon is though.
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