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"TV had a lot more impact back the '70s than it can today. Charlie's Angels received huge numbers weekly - little or nothing really dominates the tv landscape like this today. There are so many programs and so many more shows it's hard for anything to have the audience, or amount of attention, that Charlie's Angels received. Farrah was a significant TV star when the medium was plainly dominant." - Larry King The feeling that Farrah Fawcett brought on in the 1970s can be affirmed by the actual fact that TIME magazine chosen her as the "epitome of '70s glamour". Indeed, there was no celebrity or supermodel that so comprehensively captured the interest of the American public during that decade. Her career achievements are impressive, considering Fawcett didn't emerge in to the cultural limelight until halfway through the decade. Whereas most famous celebrities earn a reputation for themselves by their mid-20s, Fawcett didn't become a home name until 1977, when she was already 30 years of age. In other words, when Farrah became famous, she defied the odds, and her continued success in subsequent decades demonstrated that women could stay attractive well into middle get older. To limit the achievements of Farrah Fawcett to her glamour is to diminish the cultural importance of her appearance, to disregard the significant role she played with respect to the representation of women in popular American media. In an effort to do justice to the intricacies of Fawcett's image, this biography explores Farrah's body of work, with attention paid to the particular interpretations of her oeuvre and open public image. Fawcett's personal qualifications also is discussed, as is her bout with tumor that ultimately required her life at the premature get older of 62.
