I don't know where I got this from, but it's been in my head for a long time:
Death comes in 3s (Don't ask me now, I just told you - I don't know where it came from!).
But when my husband told me
Ed McMahon had died Tuesday at 86 years old, I knew there'd be two more - and soon.
Sure enough, 48 hours late
r and within a short span of about five hours, both Michael Jackson and
Farrah Fawcett were also dead - at the relatively young ages of 50 and 62 respectively.
While most of us remember Farrah's hair and this most famous pin-up and her Jill Munroe on Charlie's Angels - the role I absolutely most a
dmired
was her portrayal of Francine Hughes in "
The Burning Bed." Back in 1984, it spoke to domestic violence against women by their spouses in a way that no one expected from the former "angel." The little blond from Corpus Christi had finally nailed a grown-up role, and she was good in it.
I remember watching the movie with some girlfriends. And when that damn bed went up in flames -
with her abusive husband in it!??! Well, let's just say - we'd all had enough of his ass!!
Men had some real problems with that movie though (
FEAR of frying maybe?). They totally ignored the brutal and constant beatings she suffered at the hands of this man who supposedly
loved her and instead, zeroed their criticisms in on the way women all over the country were
"celebrating" (according to them) his death.
Lumps!! They couldn't even see beyond the patriarchy far enough to understand what the
real celebration was about.
It's been 25 years since that movie came out and women worldwide are
still being beaten, killed - and in more cases than we as a human race care to own - locked up for simply defending themselves.
R.I.P. Farrah...
Sure enough, 48 hours later and within a short span of about five hours, both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett were also dead - at the relatively young ages of 50 and 62 respectively.
While most of us remember Farrah's hair and this most famous pin-up and her Jill Munroe on Charlie's Angels - the role I absolutely most a
dmired was her portrayal of Francine Hughes in "The Burning Bed." Back in 1984, it spoke to domestic violence against women by their spouses in a way that no one expected from the former "angel." The little blond from Corpus Christi had finally nailed a grown-up role, and she was good in it.
I remember watching the movie with some girlfriends. And when that damn bed went up in flames - with her abusive husband in it!??! Well, let's just say - we'd all had enough of his ass!!
Men had some real problems with that movie though (FEAR of frying maybe?). They totally ignored the brutal and constant beatings she suffered at the hands of this man who supposedly loved her and instead, zeroed their criticisms in on the way women all over the country were "celebrating" (according to them) his death. Lumps!! They couldn't even see beyond the patriarchy far enough to understand what the real celebration was about.
It's been 25 years since that movie came out and women worldwide are still being beaten, killed - and in more cases than we as a human race care to own - locked up for simply defending themselves.
R.I.P. Farrah...
