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at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and later had pieces at the Andy Warhol Museum. She eventually seemed to get things under control again and returned to television, most notably appearing on Ally McBeal and later as Barry Bostwick's girlfriend on Spin City in a recurring role.

Personally her life hasn't all been roses. Her marriage to Lee Majors ended in 1982. her son with Ryan O'Neal has found himself in and out of drug rehab centers and prison. Her sister Diane passed away from lung cancer in 2001, followed by her mother in 2005. The following year Farrah was diagnosed with anal cancer and began chemotherapy almost immediately. She began documenting this final stage of her life on a small digital video camera she purchased, including shaving her trademark hair off before chemo claimed it.

Her final documentary as we should call it showed the good, bad, and everything in between. It followed her to Germany where she sought treatment to hopefully avoid a colostomy. In fact Farrah tried nearly everything to buy more time, but sadly it became apparent that was not going to happen. As late as April of 2009 her publicists insisted she was on the rebound, and at least at the moment she did outwardly appear to be. The outward appearances however were deceptive and Fawcett finally succumbed on June 25, 2009.

Whether you remember Farrah from her glory days, or only got to know her at the end of her career, there is no denying she was a vibrant and powerful performer. She proved she was more than the smiling face and beautiful body on a poster, more than the woman that spawned an entire novelty industry of Farrah "Faucets", and more than a mindless jiggler. She was a woman that entertained us and in her her final time gave us what was literally the performance of her life: he death with all that entailed so we may remember her plea that none of us ever give up.

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