Earlier this morning, Sony Pictures' home entertainment division announced that the complete fourth season of Charlie's Angels -- the show that launched the fame of headline fixture Farrah Fawcett -- will hit your megamall on July 21. Why the announcement today, of all days? We can only speculate -- forgive us for doing what comes naturally to blogs -- that it's because interest in the show and its biggest veteran hasn't been this high in years. Fawcett didn't even figure into the fourth season, and yet, her name -- and her bio, which includes references to the ABC show -- have shot up in Google rankings and searches, given her worsening condition and ongoing battle with terminal anal cancer. (Check out this Google Trends graph of the Farrah coverage, pitted against something that's been steadily in the news, like Iraq).
Other Fawcett-mania: The two-hour "video diary" documentary about her struggle to survive, to air May 15 on NBC (trailer above), or the squawking of longtime partner Ryan O'Neal promoting the doc, saying that she's near the end, that the cancer has spread and that she is ceasing treatment.
You might think that revived interest in Fawcett's already very public battle with cancer is kosher with the actress, given that today's printed an exclusive interview with the star, her first since the late-2006 diagnosis. But the interview was actually conducted nearly a year ago, in August of 2008. And in it she talks about her hatred of living "under a microscope" while battling the disease.
Maybe now, if she's really near the end, we could turn off the "diary" camcorder and let her have some peace?
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