Farrah Fawcett sues over famous bathing suit photo--VERY racy for it's time.

IHateTheMedia.com ^ | 02/23/09

[slomark]

[photo]

Farrah Fawcett. Red swimsuit. Blonde hair. More teeth than is anatomically possible. Oooooh, that poster.

Fawcett is now suing the pants off Bio-Graphics Inc., Pie International Inc. and T.N. Trikilis, accusing them of claiming they own exclusive rights to the photo, reproducing it and selling it. She’s demanding $100,000.

Fawcett swears up and down that she “owns and possesses all the photographs and negatives of all the photographs taken at the photo shoot.”



We’re showing you the poster in question, knowing full well that it’s virtually impossible for any man who grew up in the 70s to wipe it from his memory. Even if he wanted to.

[slomark]

Who else here is old enough to remember hanging that poster on their bedroom wall!

[Army Air Corps]

I remember a cousin who had both the Farrah poster and a Loni Anderson poster.

[Man50D]

Who else here is old enough to remember hanging that poster on their bedroom wall!

As a teenager I well remember that poster. I swear she was smiling at me!

[stylin19a]

or who “remembers holding the poster up with one hand in the bathroon” ?

[2harddrive]

Remember the old joke about Ancient Egyptian plumbing students? “Pharoh Faucet Majors”? LOL.

[nufsed]

I know you can read the stories in Playboy with one hand.

[Richard Kimball]

Although I was the correct age to be a fan, I was hung up on the old Elvgren posters for pinups.

All the guys who read Playboy were hung up on Vargas, but I thought Elvgren was much better.

[Paleo Conservative]

Who else here is old enough to remember hanging that poster on their bedroom wall!

I went to the same high school just 15 years later.

[blam]

[mamelukesabre]

THat’s it?

I was thinking she was on hands and knees.

[He who knoweth not his name]

SHE HAS NIPPLES...OH LORD, I`m sorry for looking...(sticking bar of soap in eyes) OOOOHH, It burns...I never imagined she had those...uh oh..tent pitching...(grabbing lighter fluid to burn away pelvis area)..

[Ted Grant]

I’ve had a theory for years that Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma from Good Times) would also have had a huge, iconic poster in that era, IF the suits weren’t gun-shy about heavily promoting a black woman as a mainstream sex symbol in that time.

Had she come along only a decade later, I bet it would have happened.

A very beautiful woman.

I tend to not give much credibility to people who find evidence if racism around every corner, but I do think there are legit examples of bigotry/racism holding back talent in the entertainment business, sometimes.

[KarlInOhio]

That poster is only about 30 years old. You would think she would have sued about ownership of the photo's copyright long, long ago.

[oldvike]

Midget fists!!!!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

My Dad and I put a piece of bubble gum under the Uh area to inhance the picture.The picture hung in our shop for years.What memories.

[fso301]

Who else here is old enough to remember hanging that poster on their bedroom wall!

Anyone admitting it will also have to admit that Farrah is now 62!

[DeLaine]

ping

[max americana]

> Who else here is old enough to remember hanging that poster on their bedroom wall!

Not me. My uncle(s) had one in each of their rooms though (cough).

[fso301]

I’ve had a theory for years that Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma from Good Times) would also have had a huge, iconic poster in that era,

Perhaps but Pam Grier was as they described attractive women back then, Foxy.

[mamelukesabre]

Never heard of her.

There’s lots and lots of gorgeous women that never become famous. Who knows why some do while the others don’t? I can’t figure it out. I don’t think it’s got anything to do with skin color.

I can think back to my teenage years and remember half a dozen girls(easy) that were nobodies but were way way prettier than nicole simpson or britney spears or any of those other train wrecks.