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...married future Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors and became Farrah Fawcett-Majors - one of those celebrity name changes (Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Meredith Baxter Birney) that virtually guarantee the couple will split. She and Majors separated in 1979 and divorced three years later...
...Blond Angel Charlie's Angels - a fantasy fashion show masquerading as a cop drama - was supposed to be an ensemble, with Fawcett supplementing the soft, russet beauty of Jaclyn Smith and the spikier, higher-IQ'd brunettishness of Kate Jackson. It didn't turn out that way. It's a toss-up whether Charlie's made her a star or she made it a hit, but within two months of the premiere episode, the show was on the cover of TIME, with Fawcett poised at the apex of the Angels triangle. She was the trio's breakout babe...
...Publishers, and especially photographers, had a lot to work with. Fawcett's thin, animated lips and row upon row of immaculate Chiclet teeth conspired into a sunny, uncomplicated smile. Her body was athletic, her arms honey-glazed. And that wild mane of hair gave rise to the rumor that a lion at the San Diego Zoo had been secretly scalped. The whole package was alluring but not shamelessly sexy; a throwback to pinup queens of an earlier era, it signaled the freewheeling fun of the ultimate Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. If the big, bulky computers of the day could have programmed...
...Farrahmania. She was the decade's premier poster girl, with 8 million sold in a year. The number of baby girls named Farrah quickly spiked. A myriad of hairdos went Fawcett-feral. She signed a lucrative deal to front a line of Faberge perfume and accessories. She also furnished the press with aphorisms that might have been recycled from the Marilyn Monroe quote book ("The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think"). Some women might shrink from this fame tsunami; Fawcett expertly surfed...
...ubiquitous a media sensation was Fawcett in that year of grace that she was written into magazine pieces on utterly unrelated topics. A June 1977 TIME cover story on the health boom began with this larkish "BULLETIN: Noted Physical Fitness Enthusiast Farrah Fawcett-Majors will appear in the tenth, 20th and 30th paragraphs of this article, jogging nude around the Central Park Reservoir, pausing every 50 yards to give a demonstration of rope-skipping. Aerobics points will be awarded to readers." The same summer, New Times magazine put her on the cover with the tagline: Absolutely Nothing in This Issue...