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smile. While no solid figure has ever been settled on it is believed that as many as 12 million copies of it may have been sold. It is to this day still remembered as the poster of that decade. In march she landed the Charlie's Angels role which most people forget was actually a movie of the week. It went over so well that they ran it a second time and still got huge ratings, huge enough in fact to order a pilot episode and go straight into production. The only cast change made was hiring David Doyle to play Bosley rather than the original cast member David Ogden Stiers who later went on to fame in M*A*S*H.

Fawcett only stayed for one season and was replaced by Cheryl Ladd. Fawcett in making this move appeared to have committed career suicide in many minds. Farrah wanted to be seen as more than a "pretty jiggler" and also reportedly received some bad advice that she was ready to cash in as a film star. It didn't happen. For the next several years nearly everything she touched flopped with the critics, fans, and at the cash register. When she was just about to be written off for good the tide changed again.

When she appeared in the off Broadway hit Extremities the critics finally took notice. She did what no one seriously thought she could in this role in which she replaced a more critically acclaimed actress Susan Sarandon playing the role of a would-be rape victim that turned the tables on her attacker. This role set the table for the following year when she took on what may have been her most praised role in The Burning Bed. She earned her first Emmy for the role and to this day the made for television movie is still aired and just as haunting as ever. She reprised her role from Extremities for the film version and won a Golden Globe for her effort.

Over the remaining years of her life she had an on again off again relationship with Ryan O'Neal while continuing to be the unofficial queen of made for TV movies. She continually drew greater critical acclaim, enough so to finally make it in big budget movies. While she didn't reach the level of stardom in this venue once promised to her, she did continually land strong roles and garner accolades like the Independent Spirit Award.

Of course Farrah also had her moments that made people shake their head like her late age playboy shoot and video, as well as an appearance on late Night with David Letterman in which she appeared to be stoned. She also began exploring he artistic bent to the extent she had an exhibition

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