Farrah Fawcett near death, priest summoned

[florige]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/ktla-farrah-ryan,0,3015055.story

Geezus I didn't know there was even a such thing as anal cancer.

Report: Farrah Fawcett Near Death, Priest Summoned





LOS ANGELES -- There are reports this morning that indicate family and friends of actress Farrah Fawcett have begun to arrive at her bedside to say their last goodbyes as the pin-up icon battles the final stages of anal cancer.

A priest has reportedly been summoned, according to family sources.

The 62 year old actress has been hospitalized for the past 2 week, and is now in the intensive care unit.

Sources say Fawcett, whose battle with anal cancer was chronicled in the NBC documentary Farrah's Story, is not doing well.

"She is being treated for her condition," according to Farrah's publicist Arnold Robinson.

Ryan O'Neal is by her side during the latest battle in her fight against the deadly disease. And he's fighting back against a man who, claiming to be Fawcett's high school sweetheart, has been writing unsavory things about O'Neal on his Farrah Fawcett website.

A cease and desist letter issued by O'Neal's attorney demanded that Greg Lott shut down his site, stop making defamatory comments about O'Neal and stop using Farrah's image to sell merchandise.

Lott had written that O'Neal has been running around with other women while Fawcett was sick, and also made drug allegations against O'Neal.

He took his site down after receiving the letter, which was dated June 23.

The news about Farrah's hospitalization comes on the heels of O'Neal's statement to Barbara Walters that while Farrah is "fighting for her life, "I've asked her to marry me, again, and she's agreed."

"We will, as soon as she can, say yes," O'Neal, 68, says about his companion since 1980. "Maybe we can just nod her head," he said, with a laugh.

"I used to ask her to marry me all the time," O'Neal said for the interview to air Friday on 20/20. "But ... it just got to be a joke, you know. We just joked about it."

But now with Fawcett, deteriorating from cancer, "I promise you, we will," says O'Neal. "Absolutely."

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006. The disease has now spread to her liver and she has given up almost all treatment, according to her doctors.

The "Charlie's Angels" star and O'Neal have a son together, 24 year old Redmond O'Neal.

[z0sa]

anal cancer? ouch.

[IronMexican]

Damn. Sounds painful.

[JudynTX]

:(

[ashbeeigh]

(CNN) -- Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and "Charlie's Angels" stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, has died. She was 62.


Farrah Fawcett rose to fame in the 1970s, thanks to a best-selling poster and the hit show "Charlie Angels."

Fawcett, who checked into a Los Angeles, California, hospital in early April, had been battling anal cancer on and off for three years.

Ryan O'Neal, Fawcett's romantic partner since the mid-1980s, recently told People magazine that the sex symbol was declining.

"She stays in bed now. The doctors see that she is comfortable. Farrah is on IVs, but some of that is for nourishment. The treatment has pretty much ended," he said in a story posted May 7.

Fawcett's cancer journey has been documented in a television special partly shot by the actress. Fawcett began shooting "Farrah's Story," by taking a camera to a doctor's appointment. Eventually, the film expanded to include trips overseas in hopes of treating the cancer.

The documentary aired on NBC on May 15.

Fawcett's beauty -- her gleaming smile was printed on millions of posters -- initially made her famous. But she later established herself as a serious actress. She starred as a battered wife in the 1984 TV movie "The Burning Bed." She appeared on stage as a woman who extracts vengeance from a would-be rapist in William Mastrosimone's play "Extremities." Watch Fawcett accept her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame »

She reprised the "Extremities" role on film in 1986. Other Fawcett films include "Logan's Run" (1976), "Saturn 3" (1980), "The Cannonball Run" (1981), "The Apostle" (1997) and the Robert Altman-directed "Dr. T and the Women" (2000).

To many, Fawcett will always be best known for her red-swimsuited image on the pinup poster, which sold a reputed 12 million copies after its release in 1976.

Fawcett was a model best known for bit parts, commercials and as "Six Million Dollar Man" actor Lee Majors' wife when she shot the poster in early 1976 at the behest of Pro Arts, a Cleveland, Ohio, company.

Photographer Bruce McBroom placed Fawcett -- then known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors -- in the Indian blanket-draped front seat of his 1937 Chevy and snapped away. Fawcett did her own hair -- a long, tousled cascade of blonde locks -- picked out the red bathing suit and chose the frame later used for poster, according to a story in the Toronto Star.

The poster, with Fawcett's million-dollar smile front and center, became a sensation.

Soon after the photo shoot, Fawcett was asked to join the cast of a new Aaron Spelling TV show, "Charlie's Angels," about a trio of female detectives who work for a mysterious man named Charlie, whose only appearance in the show was through his voice (supplied by John Forsythe). Watch Fawcett talk about why she left "Angels" »

Fawcett, who played Jill Munroe, was the last to be cast. Co-star Kate Jackson was the known name at the time, but thanks to her poster, Fawcett became the breakout star.

The highly rated TV series kicked off what came to be known as "jiggle TV," series full of pretty actresses who appeared in bikinis at the drop of a hat.

"Denunciations of 'massage parlor television' and 'voyeurism' only brought more viewers to the screen, to see what the controversy was about," wrote Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh about "Charlie's Angels" in their indispensable reference, "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows."

ABC's "Three's Company" and CBS's "The American Girls" were among the shows that immediately followed, and shows such as "Baywatch" owe "Charlie's Angels" a debt.

But Fawcett didn't stay with "Angels" long. At the end of the first season, unhappy with her contract, she left the show and was replaced by Cheryl Ladd.

Fawcett's career stagnated for a time after "Charlie's Angels." She appeared in a handful of forgettable films and divorced Majors.

But her career received a major boost with her starring role in "The Burning Bed," a 1984 TV movie co-starring Paul Le Mat. Fawcett played an abused wife who sets fire to her husband's bed as he lies sleeping. Fawcett received an Emmy nomination for her performance.

Fawcett also became romantically involved with O'Neal around this time. The pair had a son, Redmond, in 1985.

In recent years, Fawcett has appeared sporadically in the public eye. She posed nude for Playboy in 1995. In 1997, she appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman," an interview that became notorious for Fawcett's apparent incoherence. She later said she was just having fun with Letterman.

She reunited with her "Charlie's Angels" co-stars, Jackson and Jaclyn Smith, for an awards show in 2006.

Fawcett was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1942. She married Majors in 1973; they divorced nine years later.

She was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.



http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/25/obit.fawcett/index.html

[JudynTX]

RIP Farrah, you'll be missed :(

[Taco]

r.i.p.

[tp2021]

Rip

[bdictjames]

Anal cancer is another form of colon cancer, just in the rectum.

Hope she dies in peace.

[Bender]

To many, Fawcett will always be best known for her red-swimsuited image on the pinup poster, which sold a reputed 12 million copies after its release in 1976.
I had that poster on my wall in 1976 when I was a teenager.

[Evil Angel]

I had THE poster when I was a lad.

http://bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/farrah-fawcett.jpg

R.I.P.

[manufan10]

http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/FarrahObit_01.jpg

RIP :(

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I had THE poster when I was a lad.

http://bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/farrah-fawcett.jpg

R.I.P.

i have the pillow of this. and no it wasn't ever violated.
i also had the poster and the trashcan of this.
RIP

[Fpoonsie]

i have the pillow of this. and no it wasn't ever violated.
i also had the poster and the trashcan of this.
RIP

I have the pillow, too. :toast

Very sad story, though. Anal cancer has GOTTA be a bitch.

RIP Farrah.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I have the pillow, too. :toast


nice. i thought i'd would be the only one.

[word]

Anal cancer is another form of colon cancer, just in the rectum.



I read that is not true. Actually closer to cervical cancer. Both are caused by the pamplona(sp) virus. Could be wrong, as I often am.

Anyway, RIP Farrah. She was a beaut and a Texas gal.

[mrsmaalox]

Sad news. RIP

[LuvBones]

She fought this with all her strength and I just pray she's in heaven now, free from her body. RIP Farrah Fawcett.

[SpursStalker]

Rip

[ploto]

Rip

[The Gemini Method]

May you rest with the angels, Charlie's Angel...

From the ACS:

"
Anal cancer is still relatively rare in the U.S. but has been on the rise in recent years, mostly because of the increased spread of HPV. The American Cancer Society estimates there will be 5,290 new cases of anal cancer in 2009. About 3,190 will occur in women and 2,100 in men.

Risk factors for the disease include having unprotected sex with multiple sex partners, having anal sex, smoking and having a compromised immune system or HIV
Anal cancer is still relatively rare in the U.S. but has been on the rise in recent years, mostly because of the increased spread of HPV. The American Cancer Society estimates there will be 5,290 new cases of anal cancer in 2009. About 3,190 will occur in women and 2,100 in men."

[David Bowie]

RIP Farrah,

I only saw her in the film "The Burning Bed." SHe was truely beautiful and a gifted artist. I saw the special about her cancer about a month ago. It made me so sad. I cried a little when I learned she died.