The Burning Bed

For the past 35 years, Richard Masur has starred in popular television series (“One Day at a Time,” “Picket Fences”), over 45 television movies (“Fallen Angel,” “The Burning Bed,”) more than fifty films (“Risky Business,” “My Girl,” “Heaven’s Gate”) and a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions (Michael Frayne’s Democracy, David Storey’s The Changing Room). Yet, despite a resume the length of a novella, Masur still enjoys a sense of semi-anonymity when he isn’t performing. People quite often mistake him for a high school friend, or “that guy from that show.” With the opening of Bill Goda’s new Broadway thriller "Dust," however, Masur’s intense performance is likely to be nothing short of the talk of the town.
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The camera loved her. Men drooled over her and women wanted to look like her. She was the pin-up girl of the '70s—the blonde bombshell whose lovely visage hung on the walls of teenage boys across North America in one of the most famous posters of the decade. The classic image of Farrah Fawcett wearing a red swimsuit (pictured at left) sold 12 million copies around the world. But today, the woman who entered our collective consciousness 35 years ago as a lovely television pop idol, is dead at 62 after a fierce and much-publicized battle with cancer.
Fawcett was catapulted to worldwide fame in 1976 when she starred alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith in the Aaron Spelling series Charlie's Angels. Fawcett played Jill Munroe, who, together with Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson) and Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith), worked for a detective agency and received their assignments via speaker-phone from an unseen boss,

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The actress known for her part in "Charlies Angels" died at the St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. She was 62 years old. Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in September 2006. With over 50 credits to her name in both television and film, Farrah Fawcett will truly be remembered as an icon to many. I mostly remember her from performances in the hysterical "The Canonball Run" (despite being Razzie nominated for Worst Supporting Actress) back in 1981 as well as Golden Globe nominees "The Burning Bed" and "Extremities." Other credits include "Logans Run," "Saturn 3," "The Apostle" and Robert Altman's "Dr. T. and the Women."

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