Comments on: Farrah Fawcett and Ayn Rand

By: sallie parker

sallie parker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:21:58 +0000

How can one be unfamiliar with The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged? They may have been potboilers, they may have been bathetic midcult, but they cannot be ignored.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:56:27 +0000

She would have played Dagny wonderfully. I wish I could have seen it.

May she rest in eternal peace and glory.

By: Michael R. Brown

Michael R. Brown — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:08:16 +0000

An intriguing addition to the Rand corpus, biographically and psychologically. Ms Fawcett knows her stuff here, and Rand saw her more accurately than other, more culture-dependent, people did then. These responses prove Fawcett was more like what Rand thought she was and less the public stereotype. After Amy Wallace’s triumph with her biography of William Sidis, “The Prodigy” (which mentions Sidis as a prototypical “striker” in Rand’s sense) I will be interested to see what Wallace’s project comes to.

By: Susannah

Susannah — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:43:48 +0000

I do wish her story would get more air time, but isn’t b/c of Michael Jackson (may they both rest in peace). He’s an important artist, but I believe there’s more to her story – courage, strength, etc. – than is being mined at the moment.

I myself have not read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead. Guess who’s going to the library this afternoon!! ;)

Thanks for another good post. Keep it up!