Farrah Fawcett Passes Away at 62

Actress and incandescent beauty Farrah Fawcett, 62, died Thursday afternoon at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with cancer.

Hers was the face that launched a million push pins. A poster of her in a red swimsuit, at once wholesome and lascivious, became required decor on the walls of boys’ bedrooms across the country in 1976.

That inescapable image, along with her simultaneous debut in the hit TV series “Charlie’s Angels,” rocketed the lithe Texan to overnight fame.

That overwhelming early fascination continued to follow and, at times, plague the fiercely private Fawcett until her death four decades later.