Farrah: 'America's Ideal of Itself'

'Charlie's Angels' star diagnosed with cancer in 2006

(NEWSER) - Farrah Fawcett died this morning in Los Angeles after the battle with cancer that followed her 2006 diagnosis, Entertainment Tonight reports. The Charlie’s Angels star, 62, was a 1970s fashion idol who began her career in commercials and shot to fame after posing in an iconic portrait wearing a red swimsuit. Longtime companion Ryan O’Neal was at her bedside; their 24-year-old son, Redmond O’Neal, was not. More»

(NEWSER) - Farrah Fawcett’s treatment for anal cancer “has pretty much ended,” partner Ryan O’Neal tells People. The 62-year-old actress spends nearly all of her time in bed now, with doctors trying to make her as comfortable as possible. “I just don't know how to play this one," said O'Neal. "I won't know this world without her.” More»

(NEWSER) - John Forsythe, a versatile actor who gained lasting fame as Blake Carrington on the pioneering prime-time soap Dynasty and as the voice of the mysterious Charlie on Charlie's Angels, died yesterday in California. He was 92. Best known at the time as the affable star of Bachelor Father, Forsythe played a villainous judge in the 1979 Al Pacino vehicle And Justice for All, demonstrating he had the chops to channel the scheming Blake Carrington. More»

Dad is a narcissist, "faithless"

(NEWSER) - Ryan O’Neal was habitually unfaithful to Farrah Fawcett, but “she stayed nice all the way to the end,” Griffin O’Neal told CNN yesterday. Ryan’s estranged son discussed his mistrust of his father (“He was flirting with everybody” at the funeral) and Fawcett’s friend Alana Stewart (“She was selling Farrah’s stuff on eBay the day Farrah died”), and his heartbreak at not being “allowed to say good-bye.” More»

Tatum, sadly, not surprised at this

(NEWSER) - Ryan O’Neal held little back in his Vanity Fair interview, including a story illustrating his “hopeless” parenting: At Farrah Fawcett’s funeral, “I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” he says. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’” More»