!5 years ago: Remembering when Michael Jackson pushed Farrah Fawcett out of the headlines

When I first heard the news I thought they meant the british radio host Michael Jackson. (He passed in 2022)

I remember there were a number of reports that Ryan O'Neal was more upset Jackson pushed Farrah aside than he was that the mother of his son had died.

The internet seemed to nearly crash that day. Every news site was either down or running slowly.

I remember that. It was like that for a few days. You couldn't escape news on MJ's death for the next week or so. Farrah was pushed aside and forgotten.

I remember a resurgence of Michael's music after he died. Which is too bad because most of it sucks.

Unfortunately, MJ dying unexpectedly like that was bound to be world-dominating news. Farrah's death was definitely sad but her star had faded some.

I remember being in a Drag club when murders started going around...so much so the drag queen stopped her show and asked what's going on. Someone shouted up Michael Jackson is dead and the drag queen was calm and then someone told her who else had died and she nearly had a stroke FARRAH....NOT FARRAH...it was so bizarre and a joy to watch it unfold. lol Farrah was a huge deal to certain generations and her passing would have been Bigger news if MJ wasn't dead too.

murmers not murders

I died 5 days after that limey tart and no one noticed. Lady Di... please.

I'm sure Ryan O'Neal was getting ready for his close up, with visions of every major news station and talk show begging him for a sit down.

[quote]murmers not murders

yeah, I thought there was a thread on the Pulse night club going on and oops! somehow your post actually landed in the wrong thread. No worries because even if it had happened, this must have happened to me at least half a dozen times.

I remember CNN reporting Farrah's death early in the day. I then went shopping and when I returned home, I turned on the tv (still on CNN) and they were reporting on a death. I thought they were still covering Farrah's death but it was coverage of Michael's death. That was a shock because I thought they were talking about Farrah.

Farrah probably would not want to be remembered for dying of ass cancer, so Michael's death was a blessing.

It was so bitterly unfair to Farrah, but MJ's death did spark some brilliant DL threads. One I particularly remember was a "let's be Michael Jackson's funeral," culminating in "Elizabeth Taylor on a diamond-encrusted Jazzy."

Then Aqua had a song called “Back to the 90s” around the same time he died and the one lyric went “… when Michael Jackson’s skin was black.” Needless to say they had to change it but I’ve heard both versions of the song.

I'm not a fan but I thought he had a really good nyt obituary photo

I get it

Fawcett was a devout Catholic (so she said), and had her funeral in a Catholic Church - even though she was divorced, lived with a man for decades, and had a child out of wedlock. Three sins against the Church.

If an openly gay celebrity passed away and considered himself a devout Catholic, do you think he would get a high-profiled funeral in a Catholic Church ? Probably not.

No. But I remember when he held a blanket out the window.

He was a weird and sleazy fucking creep, the world is a better place without manipulative shits like him grooming 7 year old boys and licking their asses. That said I would like to have seen just how bizarre he would have looked in later years, he looked like he was held together with stick tape at the show rehearsals.

I like to think had he lived he would have eventually gone to prison.