Farrah Fawcett passed away this morning at age 62 in a Los Angeles hospital after a long, arduous battle with cancer. Millions will remember her exactly as she was on the posters for Charlie’s Angels, the action-packed 1970s TV show that propelled her to fame: flaunting her luxuriant, golden hair, her blinding smile, and that tight-fitting red bikini. Those posters went on to sell a record 12 million copies and her image is no doubt seared in the retinas of several generations of men, even though she was only on the show for one season. Fetishized as she was for her feathered, bottle-blonde locks, Fawcett took her profession seriously, earning three Emmy nominations — in 1984 for The Burning Bed, in 1989 for Small Sacrificies, and in 2001 for The Guardian. But even later in life, it was her statuesque physique that kept setting records: her topless shoot for Playboy in 1995, when she was 48, sold four million copies,

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