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McBroom, a photographer, snapped the image that made Farrah Fawcett an icon. He tells TIME how an innocuous photo shoot - in which Fawcett posed at her Hollywood home in a red swimsuit - resulted in the 1976 poster that wound up plastered on millions of bedroom walls. (See pictures of Fawcett's career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fawcett Photographer Recalls an Iconic Shoot | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...months later I got a call from a guy in Cleveland, who said, "Farrah insisted I call you." He had solicited all the Angels to do a poster in a bikini, which he would sell and give the star a percentage of the profits. My understanding is that the other two turned him down. Farrah had made a deal in which she had control of the image - she got to pick the picture and kill everything that wasn't used - and this guy said, "I've hired two photographers, had two photo shoots, spent all this money, and she hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fawcett Photographer Recalls an Iconic Shoot | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

Farther on, a student was standing a step up on a road divider, holding a poster that read, "220 Students Still Being Held," and on and on, the rally was like an information alley. "Tomorrow nothing is on, gather Saturday 4 p.m. Azadi!" was an oft-repeated mantra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forbidden Iran: How to Report When You're Banned | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

Although both he and Cutie have insisted they do not want to be held up as poster boys for changing the Church's celibacy requirement, their stories have added new fuel to a long-simmering debate. The Catholic Church in the U.S. has a serious priest crisis - the number of men entering the priesthood has dropped by 60% over the past four decades and the current average age of active priests is 60. Many dioceses have been forced to close parishes or import foreign priests to deal with shortages. But advocates of celibacy reform say there is a better solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Priestly: Father Cutie Renews Celibacy Debate | 6/21/2009 | See Source »

...their partisans in the blogosphere, where her case has been strenuously debated, behind her beatific smile lies a psycho hedonist capable of depraved murder. But family and friends insist she's just a granola-crunching athlete and honor student from Seattle who has, through bad luck, become the poster child for the perils that await American girls caught up in the dark side of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amanda Knox Talks: The Murder Trial Gripping Italy | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

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