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Posted by Deray28 • 6/25/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: death, farrah fawcett, michael jackson
about Michael Jackson "stealing cammera" from Farrah Fawcett???
Now everything is about Michael and no-one is talking about Farrah anymore. She'll probable get 2 minutes in tonights news but he will get the rest of the week!
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Farrah has a documentary about the final years of her illness as well as a whole hour of 20/20 devoted to her tonight. -
Farrah's fame was of an entirely different genre as MJ's. Yes she was an icon, but not as much an idol. -
Yeah...selfish Michael Jackson for dying!
Michael Jackson was a global superstar...I'd never heard of Farrah Fawcett until she died, and I doubt many people outside the US had.-
I was just about to say that.
Farrah Fawcett was more a celebrity. In her acting career, she actually wasn't terribly popular. Plus, she had been battling cancer for so long, we all knew it was coming. Michael was so sudden. Michael Jackson was huge here, but it was nothing compared to his popularity overseas in Europe and Asia. -
I have been living in the US for a few years, I'm Mexican and I knew who Farrah Fawcett was. You never watched the original Charlie's Angels?
Yes, I know that Michael was a much bigger figure than Farrah. Probably I'm wrong and she would've gotten the same attention she is getting now had MJ not died today (the re-run of her documentary, etc.). But, maybe it would've been much more. In the past year she became a voice and a face for the fight against cancer and that should be promoted more than the controversy that MJ's life was. -
I'm English...and I'm 22...so I never saw the Charlie's Angels series, and she hasn't been reported on in the British press because no one here knows who she is.
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Farrah was only on Charlie's Angels for a year and struggled to maintain an acting career afterwards.
She was most famous for her poster.
Mexico is close enough that they would have been aware of American pop culture. I doubt Europeans and Asians really knew who Farrah was. -
She was famous for a poster? Bloody hell...people are reacting like she was really important!
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And she did playboy at 50 -
In her final years, she became an advocate for cancer research. But yes, she was more of a celebrity than anything else.
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hmmmmm you still gotta wonder though - how many people lusted over FF posters in their bedroom compared to MJ.
She does deserve some of the attention too.-
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According to the news there were 6 million of those posters sold.
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Just being honest - she was a sex goddess compared MJ who was the king of pop.
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I find the whole idea very odd...people are dead, it's sad but unless you knew them personally...bleh, I'll never understand why people react the way they do to celebrity deaths.
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For me, it's not sadness as much as it is shock over the death of a childhood icon. He was my favorite performer as a child of the 80's.
Siuil, you are probably too young to remember what Michael Jackson mania was. For me, it was very EVERYWHERE. Red leather jacket, silver gloves, Thriller video, his music played all over the radio. MTV still played music videos and Michael Jackson was the star. -
I don't know... from the female point of view, I remember quite a few girls who were seriously in love with MJ... they thought he was the sexiest thing ever, back in the day.
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I understand how important Michael Jackson was to music, and how present he is in everyone's consciousness...but it's grieving for celebrities that I don't understand. Like when Heath Ledger died people were really really upset, and I thought it was sad to die so young with a daughter, and that it was a shame there would be no more performances from him...but I didn't know him so actually being upset about it seems weird.
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I guess we just feel close to certain celebrities even though we don't know them. I grew up reading People magazine and other magazines like that. Reading everything about Lady Diana (Diana happens to be my real name), and in some sense I felt close to her, I admired her and I cried when she died.
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ok...I guess I'm not into gossip magazines etc. so I don't get personally attached to celebrities.
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Oh, I had no reaction to Heath Ledger dying. I could have cared less actually. I usually have very little reaction to people dying, but Michael's music was a happy memory for me in a childhood that had precious few good memories.
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People were expecting Farrah Fawcett to die, after a long and public battle with cancer.
Michael Jackson, on the other hand, very unexpected.
Larry King was planning on doing a whole show on her today, but it seems it'll happen some other time. They'll both get the tributes they deserve.-
Yes, I guess everyone that saw the FF documentary a few weeks ago just feel now really sad because everyone had hopes that she would win against cancer. A lot of people related to that battle and to her openness about it.
And, on the other hand, no-one had any idea if MJ was sick, other than his vitiligo. It is more of a shock. -
I didn't watch the documentary (don't even know when/where it aired!), but I read the news last night that she received last rites from a priest.
I said to my sister something along the lines of "Well, it won't be long now for Farrah Fawcett", and not a day went by before it happening.
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this thread is not right! how can you ask such a question?!!!!-
I'm sorry Lolita, my intention was not to offend anyone. It is more about the way the press is reacting to both this deaths not about who was important.
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