The Daily Beast says that Farrah Fawcett and Ayn Rand were friends. Further, Rand was a Charlie's Angels fanatic who "never missed an episode." She considered Fawcett the ideal woman to play the female lead in a proposed Atlas Shrugged TV miniseries.
Why did Rand say she was so determined to see you in the role of Dagny Taggart, the female heroine in Atlas Shrugged?I donât remember if Aynâs letter specifically mentioned Charlieâs Angels, but I do remember it saying that she was a fan of my work. A few months later, when we finally spoke on the phone (actually she did most of the speaking and I did most of the listening), she said she never missed an episode of the show. I remember being surprised and flattered by that. I mean, here was this literary genius praising Angels. After all, the show was never popular with critics who dismissed it as âJiggle TV.â But Ayn saw something that the critics didnât, something that I didnât see either (at least not until many years later): She described the show as a âtriumph of concept and casting.â Ayn said that while Angels was uniquely American, it was also the exception to American television in that it was the only show to capture true âromanticismââit intentionally depicted the world not as it was, but as it should be.
(Via Bookslut.)