![]() I mean, here was this literary genius praising Angels. ![]() ![]() I remember being surprised and flattered by that. She told Fawcett “she never missed an episode of the show. Rand, it seems, wanted Fawcett to star in a film version of Atlas Shrugged. The story, according to Fawcett herself in an email exchange conducted shortly before her death with Amy Wallace, reprinted in The Daily Beast, is this: “Ayn contacted me with a personal letter (and a copy of Atlas Shrugged) … she seemed to think we must have a lot in common since we were both born on the same day: February 2nd.” However, thanks to a posthumous revelation (pointed to by that great smarty-pants Michael Schaub in his new/old guise at Bookslut), she has made a contribution to literature probably more lasting than anything Jacko ever did: she proved the thing that can’t be proven enough, which is that Ayn Rand was an idiot (and I wish someone would pitch me a short book saying so). Poor Farrah Fawcett - even at the end, she couldn’t hold on to a news cycle, losing out to a guy who had even worse influence on hair culture and cosmetics than she did. ![]() Ayn Rand, showing an affinity for cheesecake, early and late ![]()
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