Charlie's Angels Articles

Joan Collins, John Forsythe, Linda Evans Dynasty John Forsythe, best known as the oil tycoon Blake Carrington on the television series Dynasty, died from complications of pneumonia on Thursday, April 1, at his home in Santa Ynez, a couple of hours northwest of Los Angeles. Forsythe, who was 92, had been suffering from cancer. Born John Lincoln Freund on Jan. 29, 1918, in Penn's Grove, [...]

Farrah Fawcett Tribute: Part I For a while, she had better luck on the small screen. Among her generally acclaimed performances in made-for-TV movies were those in The Burning Bed (1984, right), as a battered wife who sets her sleeping husband on fire (hence the title); Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986), opposite Tom Conti; Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987), [...]

Unlike Michael Jackson's sudden death, Farrah Fawcett's didn't come as a surprise. For quite some time, Fawcett had been suffering from a rare form of cancer that had recently spread to her liver. The former television star and sex symbol (born in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 2, 1947) was 62. But expected or no, Fawcett's death truly saddened me. Once upon a time, I [...]

In the Los Angeles Times and at ProPublica, Charles Ornstein's excellent article "Farrah Fawcett: 'Under a microscope' and holding onto hope" describes Farrah Fawcett's fight not only against cancer, but also against tabloid journalists and the UCLA medical establishment. The Times piece also includes snippets from the videotaped interview. Here's a brief quote: "In a three-hour conversation with The Times in August — her only [...]