Along the way, she disrobes and covers herself in the material of the sculpture. The highlight of the video is a set-piece in which Fawcett sculpts a life-size statue of a woman from the ground up. She says that art allows her to express her "feelings about nudity." She wants us to know that she is a painter and a sculptor, and guess what? She specializes in nudes. Feminist performance artists such as Karen Finley have spent their entire careers trying to create what Fawcett and Playboy have apparently managed to do unwittingly: a chilling, cautionary piece that shows the cruelty of exploitation and the utter dead-end of narcissism.įrom the beach debacle, "All of Me" moves to 1997, with Fawcett preparing for her recent pictorial. If anything, it's something mothers might want to show their teenage daughters. "All of Me" is not for beer-swilling slobs who want to look at a naked woman. Her anguish and embarrassment suggest a woman circling around a sense of betrayal - but she can't figure out who has betrayed her. She can't finish a sentence without punctuating it with a mirthless giggle. So why is she doing this? She looks like a trauma victim. We see her at 48, on the beach, caressing herself for a 1995 Playboy pictorial. But then we get to Farrah: the Nude Years. The video also celebrates Fawcett's hard-hitting acting performances from the '80s, with clips from "The Burning Bed" and "Extremities."
The video traces the phenomenon that was Farrah in the late '70s - the popularity of "Charlie's Angels" and of the Farrah poster, which the ubiquitous Camille Paglia describes as one of the most significant pop-culture images of the century.
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She was discovered by a talent agent and within weeks of arriving in Hollywood was doing bit parts and TV commercials: "Joe-eey, Mama never told me about Ultra-Brite!" The 72-minute video begins with a mini-documentary of Fawcett's life and career.
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