Farah Fawcett: died

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">lotharios

long time since I heard that word! </div></div>

dat mean BP????

[britisha]

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Poor Farah, mi used to enjoy watching her show. I can only wish her all the best and hope that she is in no pain.

[Tropicana]

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By the way, this is NOT the one drop thread. THAT has been closed. However, since you raised it, while Farrah is not known to have any Black blood, Heather Locklear, who was on a series that was popular around the same time as Charlie's Angels does have Black AND Native American blood (Lumbee to be exact).




<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Another family whose name is a giveaway for their African heritage is that of Locklear - yes, the same one that Heather, the blond bombshell of the TV series, &quot;Melrose Place,&quot; claims as her own. Although as Anglo Saxon sounding as you can make it, the name is, in fact, an Indian one and in the language of the Tuscarora tribes means &quot;hold fast.&quot; Indeed, it would appear that Ms. Locklear's family, at least on her father's side, once belonged to a segment of the population which in academic terminology is referred to as a tri-racial isolate - a community of individuals whose ancestry is a mixture of European, Indian and Black and who intermarried only with each other. </div></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold">For much of our history the particular group with which her surname is so definitively identified has enigmatically been designated as &quot;Lumbee.&quot; Numbering nearly forty thousand today and centering in Robeson Co., North Carolina, the Lumbees are the largest of these tri-racial groups.</span> The official ideology of its members today, however, is that they are 100 percent Indian. A similar group known as the Melungeons originated in Tennesee while the Brass Ankle, Red Bone and Turk populations all developed in the Carolinas.

It should be noted that the modern ethnological word for such groups - isolates- is misleading. It reflects the restrictive social conditions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the &quot;one drop&quot; rule defining an African American would not be legally instituted anywhere in the nation until after Reconstruction, this definition does not take into account the fact that throughout the seventeen and early eighteen hundreds free people of black and white ancestry intermarried not only among themselves but with families of Indian and white ancestry. Furthermore, members of mixed race families intermarried with the surrounding whites, despite the fact that many states had passed laws outlawing such unions
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Source

But I digress. This thread is about the report that Farrah Fawcett has been admitted to hospital. Let's stick with THAT topic.

[neutral]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
that's one way of looking at it, i guess. to me, going under the knife shows a dissatisfaction with oneself - especially if one goes for surgery repeatedly as farrah did.
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It`s the way of hollywood I guess,fame,beauty,admiration,..they all do whatever is necessary to hang on to it,and the plastic surgeon is the first stop.

[Wahalla]

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not known by whom???? how could shi nat??? shis fram texas...

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Poor Farah, mi used to enjoy watching her show. I can only wish her all the best and hope that she is in no pain.

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Reuters reported that she seems to be really declining. It's hard to believe how quickly the cancer has spread. Stomach cancer is like that too. I know someone who was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year and within a month he was gone. Just like that.

[Wahalla]

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a nuh hally wiid one.. didnt that cosious spiitual, rel keeper kayne west mada die fram deh nife????

[neutral]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Poor Farah, mi used to enjoy watching her show. I can only wish her all the best and hope that she is in no pain.

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My sentiments too,I really do hope she pulls through.

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">She's 62 and the cancer has taken a very serious toll on her. She is fading fast. </div></div>

she could pass for 82 </div></div>

Don't laugh Dahjah. She is really sick and the cancer is just drawing her down. Remember the photo of Bob Marley after he had the chemo therapy and lost his locks? That was also horrifying. His cancer also spread quickly:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-weight: bold">The first indication that something was amiss with Marley's health came in May of 1977.While on tour in France, Marley re-injured a right toe during a soccer game. The injury refused to heal and instead quickly worsened -- the entire nail came off and doctors recommended amputation. </span> Citing religious beliefs, a limping Marley refused the surgery and gamely continued on tour. Later that summer, Marley finally allowed an orthopedic surgeon to perform a skin graft on the toe, and the procedure was deemed &quot;a success.&quot;

<span style="font-weight: bold">In September of 1980, a weakened Marley almost fainted onstage </span>while performing in New York. The next day, he collapsed while jogging in Central Park. Marley was diagnosed with a brain tumor (a result of the untreated cancer in his toe) and given less than a month to live. Despite the grim news, Marley played one final show in Pittsburgh before being flown to Miami. <span style="font-weight: bold">There doctors verified that the singer had cancer in the brain, lung, and stomach. Eight months later, Marley passed away. </span>
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[halfwaytree]

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The famous poster that hung in many a teenage boys bedroom during the 1970s. Also responsible for concealing the escape route in one of my favourite films... <span style="font-style: italic">The Shawshank Redemption.</span>

[neutral]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

The famous poster that hung in many a teenage boys bedroom during the 1970s. Also responsible for concealing the escape route in one of my favourite films... <span style="font-style: italic">The Shawshank Redemption.</span>

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Funnilly enough I dont find this particular photo all that appealing,she has a nice smile,but other than that her body is not all that sexy to me,..just ok.

I did enjoy charlies angels though,it was one of my favourite,and farah was my favourite character in it.

[Tropicana]

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She went on to do some incredible performances. Remember &quot;The Burning Bed&quot;?

[britisha]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Poor Farah, mi used to enjoy watching her show. I can only wish her all the best and hope that she is in no pain.

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Reuters reported that she seems to be really declining. It's hard to believe how quickly the cancer has spread. Stomach cancer is like that too. I know someone who was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year and within a month he was gone. Just like that. </div></div>

Scary.

[halfwaytree]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">She went on to do some incredible performances. Remember &quot;The Burning Bed&quot;? </div></div>

Yes I do remember that movie and all the publicity it received due to her playing an abused wife and mother who ended up murdering her husband in order to save her own life.

[sistacaf]

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no milo, that was a Rita Hayworth poster in Shawshank Redemption