When Megastars Die, We Get Old

You are realizing your age today if you grew up in the 1970s or ’80s. Farrah Fawcett, whose iconic image was as ubiquitous on the bedroom walls of American teenage boys as Kim Il Sung’s was in the homes of North Koreans, died of cancer at 62 yesterday. Age is the cruel fate of all sex symbols. In Fawcett’s case, she not only contended with Father Time but with the public’s changing tastes that dated what once symbolized sex. Demographics, and Sir Mix-a-Lot, killed the pin-up girl monopoly of bleach-blond anorexics. But even twenty years after her heyday, ’70s postergirl Fawcett so symbolized sex that her 1995 appearance in Playboy became the bestselling issue of the 1990s. To put this in perspective, an over-the-hill Farah Fawcett beat Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, and Denise Richards in their primes. (more…)

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Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 8:21 am in Celebrity News | 17114644 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/06/26/when-megastars-die-we-get-old/When+Megastars+Die%2C+We+Get+Old2009-06-26+15%3A21%3A21Daniel+J.+Flynn