Comments on: RIP Farrah Fawcett http://www.edrants.com/rip-farrah-fawcett/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: J.D. Finch http://www.edrants.com/rip-farrah-fawcett/comment-page-1/#comment-255845 J.D. Finch Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:23:38 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=11805#comment-255845 Early Fawcett is representative only so far as a song like Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky" was representative of 60's music: something manufactured and not a product of organic art sprung from the culture. I don't know how smart or not Fawcett was, but the "poor little sex symbol who got no respect" angle became overplayed by the media. In the 80's I was part of a playwright group in Philadelphia that previous to my arrival had workshopped William Mastrosimone's Extremities. There and elsewhere there was no lack of respect for Fawcett's more serious work. The way she was perceived by the Joe Blows who owned her poster vs. those with even a small place in the theater/art/film world was poles apart. Early Fawcett is representative only so far as a song like Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit In The Sky” was representative of 60′s music: something manufactured and not a product of organic art sprung from the culture. I don’t know how smart or not Fawcett was, but the “poor little sex symbol who got no respect” angle became overplayed by the media. In the 80′s I was part of a playwright group in Philadelphia that previous to my arrival had workshopped William Mastrosimone’s Extremities. There and elsewhere there was no lack of respect for Fawcett’s more serious work. The way she was perceived by the Joe Blows who owned her poster vs. those with even a small place in the theater/art/film world was poles apart.

]]> By: Anna Clark http://www.edrants.com/rip-farrah-fawcett/comment-page-1/#comment-255836 Anna Clark Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:27:56 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=11805#comment-255836 It's rather horrifying to think that her last months of life were spent trying to figure out who at her hospital was divulging her medical records to the tabloids. She did find out who it was...and, in a strange turn, that person who profited off sharing Fawcett's most personal information to the celebrity media ended up dying of cancer herself before Fawcett did. She was able to die in peace and privacy, of course. It’s rather horrifying to think that her last months of life were spent trying to figure out who at her hospital was divulging her medical records to the tabloids.

She did find out who it was…and, in a strange turn, that person who profited off sharing Fawcett’s most personal information to the celebrity media ended up dying of cancer herself before Fawcett did.

She was able to die in peace and privacy, of course.

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