"'Angel' Farrah Fawcett Crosses The Final Frontier Of Reality Television" NYP: With Friday night's airing of the two-hour documentary "Farrah's Story," Farrah Fawcett became the first American celebrity to film herself dying. But amid this week's non-stop media coverage of the special, replete with a red-carpet premiere and interviews with her on-again paramour Ryan O'Neal - who, ever the gentleman, referred to Fawcett in the past tense - one question has yet to be asked: Is this weird? Or is this just the natural progression of things, the logical next step in a culture where the pace of oversharing and electronic communications are perfectly, symbiotically matched?.... In the end, this may be Farrah Fawcett's legacy, whether or not it was what she intended when asking her friend Stewart, as she was projectile vomiting: "Why aren't you filming this?"Nearly 9 million voyeurs got off on Farrah's 2 1/2 year death march, but alas, CBS won the Friday night time slot.
Final frontier? Well, nooo. Some canny network TV entertainment executive has the ultimate reality show in development. The one where the psycho TV news personality, say MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, commits suicide on the air...
God bless you Farrah. I hope this brings you what you're looking for in your final days. We'll miss you.
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