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...last months, before her death today at 62, Fawcett served as another important emblem: the gaunt, glamorous battler against anal cancer. She could have left her fans with memories of a white-hot celebrity as Charlie's blondest angel, a solid career playing besieged TV-movie heroines and a volatile private life that was almost always public. Instead, she waged a fight for cancer awareness in the best and bravest way she knew how: with a two-hour ABC TV special, widely seen in May, that showed her at home, in a California hospital and in a German clinic, often...
...actress - and Fawcett fooled her fans by becoming an excellent one - can find an arc of redemption through suffering. Fawcett was given a diagnosis of anal cancer in 2003 (the same year O'Neal came down with leukemia), and after a period of remission, it returned in 2007. She was the third of the original Charlie's Angels to suffer from cancer...
...Long a board member of the national advisory council for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, she became an ardent activist for the Cancer Society. She put the news of her condition, and the remains of her celebrity, to worthy use. O'Neal hoped she would finally marry him, and she agreed, but at the end, she was too weak for the ceremony to be performed. A Catholic priest performed last rites a few hours before her death this morning in Santa Monica, Calif. O'Neal was with...
...behavior during the announcement - he repeatedly told the audience members he loved them, before pumping his fists, striking a catwalk pose and disappearing behind a curtain - led to speculation that his health would prevent him from completing the marathon residency. More recently, British tabloids suggested the singer had skin cancer. (Watch TIME's video "Appreciating Michael Jackson, the Musician...
Recently, Jackson was preparing for a comeback tour, and when plans for a series of London shows were postponed in May, rumors emerged again that Jackson was sick - this time with skin cancer. Concert promoter AEG Live repeatedly declared in the press that the change in schedule had "absolutely nothing to do with Jackson's health...