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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