Farrah Fawcett

Actress and incandescent beauty Farrah Fawcett, 62, died yesterday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with cancer. Her longtime companion, Ryan O'Neal, and best friend, Alana Stewart, were at her side. "Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends," O'Neal said, "we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world.

FARRAH FAWCETT, whose one season on "Charlie's Angels" more than 30 years ago helped define her for millions, spent decades trying to prove that she was more than a hairstyle and an iconic swimsuit poster. And over and over, from her first Emmy-nominated performance as a battered wife who fought back in "The Burning Bed" to documenting her own nearly three-year fight against the anal cancer that killed her, Fawcett, who died yesterday at St. John's Health Center, in Santa Monica, Calif.

RE Christine Flowers' op-ed "Touched by an Angel" on the death of Farrah Fawcett: I couldn't agree more. The final days of June brought much tragedy. I feel not only a loss but a subtle betrayal that the death of Michael Jackson overshadowed everything else, especially Farrah's passing. I don't dismiss Jackson's musical ingenuity or his iconic stature, but I agree with Christine that Farrah "had a humanity that, for all his genius and epochal accomplishment, he didn't. " Despite that fact that, at 31, I was just a child at the height of Farrah's stardom, she had a quality that seemed to cross over generations in a much different way than Jackson did. As a young girl in the '70s, I remember my mother (like most women back then)

"Extremities. " A drama starring Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid and Alfre Woodard. Directed by Robert M. Young from a screenplay by William Mastrosimone. Based on his play. Photographed by Curtis Clark. Edited by Arthur Coburn. Music by J.A.C. Redford. Running time: 100 minutes. An Atlantic release. In area theaters. No one is happier than I am about the re-emergence and sudden appreciation of both Cybill Shepherd and Farrah Fawcett, who for too long were the subjects of gossip-column barbs.

Put those scissors down, ladies. Contrary to rumors, Jennifer Aniston of "Friends" isn't getting a totally new hairdo just because all of you decided to imitate her old one like so many sheep getting shorn. "It's a hell of a threat, and it makes good press, but all she is doing is growing it long," "Friends" executive producer Kevin Bright said at an NBC publicity event this week. And that noise you hear is the sound of thousands of women with "Rachel cuts" letting loose a sigh of relief.

Yes, Farrah Fawcett trashed her ex-boyfriend's house and took a swing at his car with a baseball bat, but that doesn't mean he was justified in beating her up, a Santa Monica, Calif., jury decided yesterday. Jurors found filmmaker James Orr guilty on one count of misdemeanor battery, stemming from an ugly January scene in which he slammed Fawcett's head to the ground and tried to choked her. Orr, 44, was acquitted of another charge involving an earlier fight. He faces up to a year in jail and a $6,000 fine.

A decade after her debut as a glamorous crime fighter on the old Charlie's Angels series, Farrah Fawcett will turn up on television this weekend in the role of a real-life pursuer of former Nazis. Fawcett stars in the title role of Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story, beginning at 9 p.m. Sunday on ABC (Channel 6). It's the latest step in a successful turnaround of her career that she began three years ago. It may be a little hard to remember now that Fawcett, as honey-maned Jill Munroe, was a regular on Charlie's Angels for only the first of its five years on the air. She is permanently affixed in the public mind as the archetypal angel, although Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd and Kate Jackson all jiggled around on the series much longer.

In her ongoing quest to prove something she established a decade ago - that she's a good actress - Farrah Fawcett has turned her attention to Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (Channel 3, 9 tonight and 8 p.m. tomorrow). This tale of the high-living Woolworth heiress, based on the 1983 best seller by C. David Heymann, is one of those stories that people in the television industry are drawn to - Hutton's rise from relative poverty to unimaginable wealth is the sort of thing that TV actors believe will demonstrate "range" and "growth" while attracting millions of viewers.

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett's talent was undeniable, but it was their authentic sense of style that made them among the last of a dying breed: the true celebrity fashion icon. Just look at how we've spent the last week remembering their legacies. Seconds after we learned of the Charlie's Angel's demise, Twitter and Facebook came alive with remembrances of the perfectly feathered hair and wonderfully white teeth of the 1970s beauty. The death of the King of Pop has been even more steeped in style.

What happened last week between Farrah Fawcett and filmmaker James Orr still isn't clear, but the duo put out a statement saying: "Two good friends had a misunderstanding [that] has been cleared up. We are still good friends and have moved on with our lives. . . . We are both doing great. " At 4:30 a.m. Jan. 28, L.A. cops were called to Orr's Beverly Hills shelter, where, the Brit tab Daily Mirror reports, Fawcett had beaten on him for "alleged womanizing. " Next week's Globe says that Fawcett, who turned 51 Monday, "burst into" Orr's house swinging a baseball bat. The tab said that it would go with pix showing the house trashed and that it has neighboring security guards saying they saw a woman inside the house "in a wild frenzy.

RE Christine Flowers' op-ed "Touched by an Angel" on the death of Farrah Fawcett: I couldn't agree more. The final days of June brought much tragedy. I feel not only a loss but a subtle betrayal that the death of Michael Jackson overshadowed everything else, especially Farrah's passing. I don't dismiss Jackson's musical ingenuity or his iconic stature, but I agree with Christine that Farrah "had a humanity that, for all his genius and epochal accomplishment, he didn't. " Despite that fact that, at 31, I was just a child at the height of Farrah's stardom, she had a quality that seemed to cross over generations in a much different way than Jackson did. As a young girl in the '70s, I remember my mother (like most women back then)

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett's talent was undeniable, but it was their authentic sense of style that made them among the last of a dying breed: the true celebrity fashion icon. Just look at how we've spent the last week remembering their legacies. Seconds after we learned of the Charlie's Angel's demise, Twitter and Facebook came alive with remembrances of the perfectly feathered hair and wonderfully white teeth of the 1970s beauty. The death of the King of Pop has been even more steeped in style.

FARRAH FAWCETT, whose one season on "Charlie's Angels" more than 30 years ago helped define her for millions, spent decades trying to prove that she was more than a hairstyle and an iconic swimsuit poster. And over and over, from her first Emmy-nominated performance as a battered wife who fought back in "The Burning Bed" to documenting her own nearly three-year fight against the anal cancer that killed her, Fawcett, who died yesterday at St. John's Health Center, in Santa Monica, Calif.

Actress and incandescent beauty Farrah Fawcett, 62, died yesterday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with cancer. Her longtime companion, Ryan O'Neal, and best friend, Alana Stewart, were at her side. "Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends," O'Neal said, "we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world.

Farrah Fawcett, 59, is reportedly battling intestinal cancer. According to the National Enquirer and TV shows Extra and Entertainment Tonight, the Charlie's Angels star has been undergoing radiation treatment and is preparing for surgery to remove a tumor in her lower intestine. "Please respect my privacy at this challenging time," ET says Fawcett's rep asks in a statement. Extra says that "in a bizarre twist," both of Fawcett's Angels costars Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith also have battled cancer.

Yes, Farrah Fawcett trashed her ex-boyfriend's house and took a swing at his car with a baseball bat, but that doesn't mean he was justified in beating her up, a Santa Monica, Calif., jury decided yesterday. Jurors found filmmaker James Orr guilty on one count of misdemeanor battery, stemming from an ugly January scene in which he slammed Fawcett's head to the ground and tried to choked her. Orr, 44, was acquitted of another charge involving an earlier fight. He faces up to a year in jail and a $6,000 fine.

What happened last week between Farrah Fawcett and filmmaker James Orr still isn't clear, but the duo put out a statement saying: "Two good friends had a misunderstanding [that] has been cleared up. We are still good friends and have moved on with our lives. . . . We are both doing great. " At 4:30 a.m. Jan. 28, L.A. cops were called to Orr's Beverly Hills shelter, where, the Brit tab Daily Mirror reports, Fawcett had beaten on him for "alleged womanizing. " Next week's Globe says that Fawcett, who turned 51 Monday, "burst into" Orr's house swinging a baseball bat. The tab said that it would go with pix showing the house trashed and that it has neighboring security guards saying they saw a woman inside the house "in a wild frenzy.

Put those scissors down, ladies. Contrary to rumors, Jennifer Aniston of "Friends" isn't getting a totally new hairdo just because all of you decided to imitate her old one like so many sheep getting shorn. "It's a hell of a threat, and it makes good press, but all she is doing is growing it long," "Friends" executive producer Kevin Bright said at an NBC publicity event this week. And that noise you hear is the sound of thousands of women with "Rachel cuts" letting loose a sigh of relief.

"Princesses live happily ever afterward," the chauffeur tells the pampered tot, but of course the whole point of "Poor Little Rich Girl" is that in real life, they don't. At least not this one: Barbara Hutton, the heiress to the Woolworth fortune who went through 50 or 60 million bucks before dying relatively penniless in 1979. Farrah Fawcett plays Hutton in the two-part, five-hour mini-series airing tonight and tomorrow. It's one of those exhaustive, exhausting performances that puts actors through wringers and invites viewers to join them.

In her ongoing quest to prove something she established a decade ago - that she's a good actress - Farrah Fawcett has turned her attention to Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (Channel 3, 9 tonight and 8 p.m. tomorrow). This tale of the high-living Woolworth heiress, based on the 1983 best seller by C. David Heymann, is one of those stories that people in the television industry are drawn to - Hutton's rise from relative poverty to unimaginable wealth is the sort of thing that TV actors believe will demonstrate "range" and "growth" while attracting millions of viewers.