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Farrah Fawcett unfairly snubbed on Oscar telecast
We lost a lot of movie stars last year including Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson, and Brittany Murphy among them. On last night’s Oscars, James Taylor took to the stage and performed The Beatles’s In My Life as pictures of the recently departed flashed on the screen.
So where was Farrah Fawcett? How could she not have been included in this tribute?
Farrah may have had her most famous roles on television but she made plenty of feature films including an acclaimed role as Robert Duvall’s wife in 1997’s The Apostle and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her riveting performance in 1986’s Extremities in a role she originated off-Broadway.
Her film debut was in 1970s Myra Breckinridge, appeared in 1976’s Logan’s Run and her first lead came opposite Jeff Bridges in 1978’s Somebody Killed Her Husband. She starred with Bridges again in in 1989’s See You in the Morning.
Other features included Dr. T and the Women opposite Richard Gere, Saturn 3 with Kirk Douglas, Sunburn, Man of the House, Cannonball Run and her final film appearance of any kind was in 2004’s The Cookout. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
There’s no excuse for not including Farrah.
Comments
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yekimi says:
They forgot Bea Arthur also. I get the feeling they chopped a few out because the show was running long. What’s easier then just dumping a few dead people?
MK Scott says:
I forgotten Farah was in those films, perhaps the academy did too? Now for bea, she was NOT a movie star. She appeared once in the forgettable ‘Mame’ in 1974. The OSCAR only salutes Film stars not TV stars, that is why they were heavily saluted during the Emmys.
Clay says:
In addition to Bea Arthur, Zelda Rubinstein was conspicuously omitted from the In Memoriam section. I was very upset.
Rose B. says:
It was so disrepectful of the Academy to “forget” Farrah in memoriam. Who cares if they were running out of time- they always run over anyway.Someone had his head up his a– on that one.