Word: fawcett
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...Stunning Angel The tawny hair, the toothy smile and the provocative pose that Tricia Helfer displayed in the PEOPLE item about her portraying Farrah Fawcett of Charlie's Angels fame [Feb. 2] certainly captured the aura of the '70s star. Back when 59% of all U.S. television sets were tuned to the Angels each week, TIME zeroed in on the show, which starred a trio of skimpily clad female detectives...
...Typically, each Angels episode makes sure at least one co-star strips down to a bikini in the first ten minutes, the better to keep males in a state of gape-jawed passivity and expectation thereafter ... Even people connected with the show seem abashed by its implicit sexism ... Farrah Fawcett-Majors, the spectacularly maned frosted blond who is first among equals as a sex object [is] seen braless on all the shows. She has even on occasion refused to don a bikini, not because she has an objection to the costume but because she felt the only rationale...
...certain mane-tossing, 1970s crime fighter, newcomer TRICIA HELFER didn't just sashay into character for NBC's Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels, airing in March. Growing up in Canada, the former model had no TV, so the role required work. There was Fawcett's walk to learn and history to absorb. And then there were the physical enhancements. The hair extensions were easy. But how did Helfer mimic the other iconic parts of Fawcett's physique? "We had a range of prosthetic nipples," says Helfer. And to think Farrah made do with just...
...Sarah E. Fawcett contributed to the reporting of this story...
Although the ideas animating these kinds of thoughts were no doubt praiseworthy, Fawcett hammered them home in an almost unrelentingly preachy way, interspersing them among dialogue that seemed, on occasion, to strive for naturalism and psychological poignancy. Sadly, even the play’s handful of jokes fell flat; most notably, at the end of a lengthy double-entendre monologue punning on baking terms with sexual allusions, the punchline was something to the effect of “Oh, I always love baking cakes.” There is no subtlety in The River...