It was never easy to be Farrah Fawcett. Beautiful blonde model from Texas, she’s cast on “Charlie’s Angels” and they promptly develop a new term to describe actresses like her – “T & A”. She walks away from the show in a dispute over what that T & A is worth, and she’s blackballed by the industry for two decades. When she contracts as embarassing a form of cancer as you might imagine – anal – the folks at UCLA share that fact with the National Enquirer. Even when she dies, Michael Jackson kicks the bucket hours later, stealing her spotlight once again.

Here at the MarlinBlog, we remember Farrah from her first introduction to the world – that poster. You know the one I’m talking about – you probably had it on your wall as a kid. I know I did … and so did a lot of others, considering the sales. One of the ways you know you’ve made an impact on pop culture is when people want to imitate you; considering the collection at right, her impact is clear.

They’re going to rerun “Farrah’s Story,” the documentary Fawcett herself made about her fight with cancer, tonight on NBC. Watch it if you can; for now, we remember her as she was …