Farrah Fawcett battling cancer

[Haole Girl]

:cry:



http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/10/07/farrah.fawcett.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Farrah Fawcett has been diagnosed with cancer and is maintaining a positive attitude to get through it, she said.

"I am determined to bite the bullet and fight the fight while going through the next six weeks of cutting edge, state-of-the-art treatment," the 59-year-old former "Charlie's Angels" star said in a statement released by her publicist, Mike Pingel, on Friday. "I should be able to return to my life as it was before."

Pingel did not reveal what kind of cancer Fawcett has but said it was recently diagnosed and involves a fast-growing tumor.

The actress, who appeared with her former "Charlie's Angels" co-stars at an August Emmy tribute to the late TV producer Aaron Spelling, said she has been overwhelmed by the "outpouring of concern, love, prayers and compassion" she has received from people around the world.

"I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges," she said.

[johnnie]

1. That sucks

It is almost automatic to take a dig when you see her name these days, but I can't do it obviously. I hope she beats the shit out of it and gets back to being a goofball.

Here is thinking of you Farrah, get well soon.

[flamingyouth]

2. I hope she'll be okay

I also believe in one's own positive will to overcome the most daunting challenges, so my thoughts are with her.

[Left Is Write]

3. That's too bad. :( I hope she can beat it.

[RebelOne]

4. I am wishing her the best of luck in her fight against

this disease. I just hope she is not diagnosed as inoperable. I lost my sister, who died at 54, to an inoperable kidney cancer. And just recently, a good friend, also 54, who was diagnosed too late to save her. And another friend, who was 74, just died of terminal cancer. She died three weeks after her diagnosis.

[Kajsa]

5. HI KC2, this is horrible news.

I sure hopes she beats this and gets
back on her feet.

Here's sending positive vibes and good wishes her way.

:hug:

[rocktivity]

6. Ironically, her Charlie's Angels-mates Jacklyn Smith and Kate Jackson

have had bouts with cancer, too.

:shrug:
rocknation

[Darth_Kitten]

7. Hope she beats it........

though Fawcett doesn't seem like a very nice person, she stayed with Ryan O'Neal, and they both didn't seem to be very good or caring parents to their kids.

(read Tatum O'Neal's book)

Just saying...... :(

[Bucky]

9. Wow, like that John Wayne Ghengis Khan movie shot at a nuke test range!

All the actors and crew from that movie ended up dying of cancer over the next 30 years. I wonder what sort of exposure the Angels have had that's giving them all cancer like that. I strongly suspect that giant speaker phone on Bosley's desk was radioactive.

[rocktivity]

15. (Unintentionally) funny that you should mention that

A while back, there was a DU Lounge thread asking for unintentionally funny movies. I wanted to volunteer a movie in which John Wayne had been grieviously miscast as either Ghengis Khan or Atilla The Hun, but I didn't know its name. Fortunately, I remembered that Susan Hayward had also been in the movie, which gave me enough ammunition for a web search. Unfortunately, I came across this:

...Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. Experts say under ordinary circumstances only 30 people out of a group of that size should have gotten cancer...many attribute the cancers to radioactive fallout from U.S. atom bomb tests in nearby Nevada...

The Conqueror, a putative love story involving Genghis Khan's lust for the beautiful princess Bortai (Hayward), was a classic Hollywood big budget fiasco...

:(
rocknation

[Redstone]

8. Bummer. Nobody should have to suffer like that. Except maybe Rumsfeld.

Him, I'd not feel sorry for. Not one bit.

Redstone

[Frank Cannon]

10. I thought she was the most beautiful woman on Earth when I was a kid

There literally wasn't a square inch of my bedroom that didn't feature some sort of Farrah picture or poster. I worshipped at the throne of the golden goddess of ABC Wednesdays. My thoughts and prayers were consumed night and day, day and night, with Farrah... Farrah... Farrah...

Although my taste in women has changed considerably over the decades, I am devastated by this news.

You broke my heart, Farrah, but I still love you. Please, please get better.

[Vidar]

11. I'm very sorry to hear that.

[Generic Brad]

12. What kind of cancer?

Not that it matters.

[Haole Girl]

13. The article said....

Pingel did not reveal what kind of cancer Fawcett has but said it was recently diagnosed and involves a fast-growing tumor.

[freethought]

14. I read colon cancer, but the source was

not what I would consider credible, just some tabloid site. If that's the case she has real battle ahead. A great deal may depend on how early they caught it. I have seen her on TV off and on and she has not looked healthy.
Hope she gets through it.