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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn’t included in the Academy Awards’ In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star. It was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett, said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, who added that he’s not surprised some fans and family members are upset.

Drew Barrymore is giving wings to Charlie’s Angels – the actress is making plans to bring the hit TV series back to the small screen. Barrymore has produced and starred in two film adaptations of the 1970s show – and now she’s breathing new life into the franchise, which launched Farrah Fawcett ’s career, by reviving it for TV.

Lawyers representing Farrah Fawcett ’s estate are suing the man who was hired to make the documentary charting the late star’s battle with anal cancer. In a suit filed at Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday, representatives of the estate allege filmmaker Craig Nevius embezzled thousands of dollars and “sensationalized” the Charlie’s Angels star’s story in the footage he produced, according to the papers obtained by TMZ.com. Fawcett’s lawyers slate Nevius’ documentary as “amateurish and sensationalized, and looked like tabloid journalism, which was not at all what Ms.

Farrah Fawcett ’s family has been stunned by allegations the actress included a secret lover in her will. The Charlie’s Angels star passed away in June, aged 62, and reportedly left the bulk of her multi-million dollar fortune to her troubled son Redmond O’Neal – excluding her longterm partner Ryan O’Neal from her legacy


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