Damn, what a day!
Farrah Fawcett AND Michael Jackson.
Sucks.
I mean… she was everyone my age’s first crush, the first tightening of the pants of so many of us was from that one perfectly placed nipple. “Charlie’s Angels” was the BOMB when we were kids! She was the Six Million Dollar Man’s wife for chrissakes!
And then the “Battered Wife Series” showed us that she COULD, in fact, act. She kinda freaked out for a while, but, come on… she seemed like good people.
And Michael.
Come on. We grew up with him.
Yeah, he freaked at the end, but “I Want You Back”? “ABC”? “Ben”? What he gave us was so much more.
He was everyone’s little brother (even though he was 10 years older than me.
He was an icon. He changed us.
Oh, and my dad got to meet him, which is kinda cool, no?
Hear, hear. An incredible day is correct. Farrah Fawcett won many of us with her hair and smile alone, while many of us grew up in what can be legitimately called the Michael Jackson era. What celebrity had as wide a global appeal as he?