Anyone who has not seen her performance in 'The Burning Bed' please do so, her acting was jawdropping. She was nominated both Emmy and Golden Globe awards for outstanding female lead performance in this movie. I was blown away by her acting ability. It was a great movie because she made it great. The depth of this woman was profound.
She was a good woman, good wife, good mom, etc. A very kind soul. She passed away 2 years after this. If she was medicated she had a reason. So those of you being negative let her RIP. Nobody knew her pain. She was also very nervous. That was just Farrah. She will be dearly missed.
Well maybe that wouldn't have happened if she hadn't arrived on the show too wrecked to put a coherent sentence together or remember what she was about to say.
@@papagreenemusic Correct, someone should've given her a strong coffee or other thing prior to her entrance. Anyway, I get that from an entertainment perspective the show's goals were achieved. Everyone had a great time at her expense...
As a painter who has long lived under the shadow of the "crazy artist" attitude that the vast majority of Middle America have, I watch this video with empathy and understanding for Ms. Fawcett. At several times she makes perfectly valid and important clarifications that the audience and Dave merely laugh off. It is clear that he is whipping the crowd up into mindset of tittering at her nudity, amplified by making fun of the mere idea of her painting with her remarkably beautiful body (if anyone knows any other 50 year old women who look like that covered in paint, please send me her contact info). Letterman, the band, the staff, and the audience behaved liked 10 year old boys hiding in the tree house with their first copy of Playboy. Farrah was NOT drugged. At most, she had a drink or two to stave off nerves. This interview actually reminds me most of what the public did to Marilyn Monroe, trivializing her accomplishments as an actor and her intelligence by projecting the bimbo concept on her.
I think she was likely on medication for her pain due to her cancer. She seems more than mildly intoxicated to me in this interview. No matter what, she was sweet and mostly coherent the majority of the time. Opiod pharmaceuticals can obviously be very intoxicating, and perhaps she needed them to get through the day at that point. Regardless, I agree, Dave, that the staff, band, and audience were disrespectful to Farrah. And I agree that she was a talented actor.
She was a sweet soul. High, not high...does it matter? She suffered with her son's drug problems, then died a horrible death. She was an icon of her day...RIP sweet lady
Letterman never protects his guest from aggressive audiences.Cher was right.He is an asshole. Farrah , as high as she was, still handled this heckling crowd with grace.
+blissfulbaboon what do you want him to do evict the people on the left? he was hilarious and I thought Farrah came off good despite being high as shit. Do you perfer scripted interviews where the stars publicist told letterman what to ask and if he goes off script they'll leave?
+JoeyBooey That's what Lou Reed used to do.....if reporter-interviewer asked a question that was not scripted, Lou would blast them, and tell them he isn't answering...
So much compassion for her ONLY because she was considered attractive. If she were overweight and/or unattractive I can guarantee there wouldn’t be so many comments of praise and love for her!
Farrah said that she was very nervous during this interview, and not on drugs. She was devastated at all of the hype that came out of all of this. I just watched another interview here with Dave and she acts very similar. Bubbly and kind of scattered and sweet. I prefer to believe her.
No, in fact Letterman here is really honest and polite (as he is) in helping her through the segment. Of course, at some point he just can't help himself, but you can definitely tell David wasn't expecting Fawcett to put both into this kind of situation. To me, everyone who is saying Letterman capitalizes on this situation ain't watching closely enough. He is undemandable towards Farrah, but then again acts properly and naturally to Fawcett sweetly blundering herself here and there. And you still have to remember - then again it's Letterman, he just IS razor sharp, but that's what he's ever been all about.
I don't think Dave knew, in the beginning of the interview, he asks if she's ok. He noticed she was acting a bit odd, she was loose on her feet before she got to the couch.
I watched this live and thought the audience was ridiculous. They kept it going. David Letterman was really trying to smooth things out so kudos to him. She is so thin at this time in her life. When people are anorexic it affects their thinking. She was probably taking some medication as well. She was on the show June 5, 1997. Fen-phen was in big time use then. No one knew at that time what the dangers of that drug were so everyone was using it. Look up the side effects. Answers everyone questions. I'm so sad for Redmond. I pray he finds his way through addiction and comes out clean on the other side!
1:10 absolutely brillant comedic performance 2009 LA Times article "If I hear the word incoherent again," she says in exasperation, explaining that she was exhausted, hungry, nervous and embarrassed by the Playboy photos that Letterman showed the audience. During another chat, she says her appearance was a "performance." She watched the tape recently and thinks she was pretty damn funny."
I think she was so sweet in this interview. She really played along with the audience and Letterman. I think she was really nice and showed more class then anyone on this set. I do think that they did have a comedic bantering back and forth. I do not think she was on anything here like drugs or whatever everyone wants to say she was on! I just think she may have been maybe just a little nervous is all.
I don’t mean any harm I just offer some confirmation on why Farrah Fawcett was acting this way. In a recent interview that Rosie O’Donnell gave she confirmed that Farrah Fawcett came on her show, and during a commercial break Rosie, had to tell Farrah Fawcett to wipe her nose because there was white powder visible in her nose. According to Rosie O’Donnell, Farrah Fawcett went to the David Letterman show to do an interview there right after her show. Rosie O’Donnell confirms this in one of her recent interviews. Look it up on RU-vid. No harm in this comment. Just offering facts from what Rosie O’Donnell said.
This is the closest thing to Marilyn Monroe that I've seen in my lifetime. Marilyn, even though she was incredibly beautiful and sexy, could make you feel sorry for her poor, messed-up life. Every straight man in the world wanted her.
Farrah found it hard to speak because everybody laughed out of fun and then the more she talked she found it harder to explain. Very beautiful and too me like a little angle.
Farrah was such a gifted actress! I always knew she was a sex symbol and icon because of her great beauty but she really moved me in the burning bed! She brought me to tears! She was also fantastic in extremities and jewel as well! I loved Farrah.
R.I.P. Farrah, I saw her special she did on her cancer experience, very sad, I thought she would be O.K., but it didn't work out that way. luv ya Farrah!
As someone on the other video said, she spoke like that all the time. But even if I didn't know that, I'd never in a million years conclude from this interview that she was under the influence. I see someone gracefully and with full cognition handing all the interruptions being thrown at her.
This is so uncomfortable and i think farrah might have been ill at the time and maybe abusing medication or something certainly not funny and the audience just laughing makes this so sad
I saw a video where she commented on her behavior here and she said that she didn't fall, that she had dropped some lipstick (or something) and the camera caught her picking it up. She also said that she was deliberately trying to be funny by acting "ditsy" during the interview. I still give her kudos, she was brave to the end.
+osaro runner You're all talking shit. She was not drugged up, she was really like that. People on drugs show other signs of intoxication together with the tipsy/airy characteristics. There are certain physical peculiarities that chemicals will cause, and that can't be omitted, and she doesn't show any of them.
I LOVE her. This interview was hysterical and that moment at 1:15!!! I don't know if she was drunk or high or distracted or confused but she was great!!!!
Farrah lived 3 miles away from my family. In corpus Christy Texas. I was just a little boy. But I know a gorgeous woman when I see one even at my tender yrs I'm 50 minutes from her grave I will pay my respect before I move from California
Drugs and low self-esteem ruined her. Ryan O'Neal was a wife and child beater, neglecter and abandoner. All three of his kids had awful childhoods, Griffin's ending in a fatal boating accident. Tatum revealed in her autobiography that she and Griffin lived by themselves in a filthy, roach infested apartment as children, getting themselves to school and managing their own lives while their father lived with Fawcett, Redmond and drugs. Farrah Fawcett was a mess, as evidenced by her long-term involvement with one of Hollywood's most notorious dirtbags. Tragic.
+Mark Murphy Yepp, Amen Mark. Her manager should have been ASHAMED of themselves. But, knowing letterman. He Probably sent her Drinks & Possibly Drugs too? Just so he could make FUN of her & get his Ratings UP? Just Saying?? God Bless you "Ms. Farrah Fawcett" & R I P Sweetheart!!
+Kane 8280 She wasn't ditzy before this interview. I remember I watched it when it originally aired. I was shocked! Intoxicated? Something else? She acted weird on Conan as well
James Jefferson Lol ecstasy doesn’t look like this at all. Like not even close. She’s being ditzy, and maybe tipsy or taken some downers. Definitely not ecstasy.
I think she had a great time with Dave. True she sets out on a ramble, but few hosts could have turned it into a fun back and forth with her the way Dave did, so that everyone including Farrah was in on the fun. She was a great sport, and I came away with a new appreciation of her bubbly, fun personality.
I saw this in real time and did not think she was high - maybe an anti-anxiety med. I wish Paul would have jumped in - she was looking to him for a lifeline multiple times, because Letterman was continuously trying to trip her up. It wasn't as bad as people have made it out to be.
rude interview and chauvinistic way of slick side belittling her .. I get it ...it's late night comedy but he was attempting to reduced her to bimbo status. art major trying to explain her body as art and her art but reduced to "oh you're naked"
+Jake Wheeler no, if you had ever tried drugs or been very high you would be able to realize that's what it was, its pretty clear here that her heart was also beating over time. She was not herself ok here no matter how dumb she is
I think it was very sad to watch. She seemed very sweet, and not ridiculously high. It could just be her personalithy...and she might not be so sharp. Although it was funny, making fun of her was not.
good enough actress to hide her native TX accent. I don't think I'd heard it before watching this interview. It's charming to hear her "in the raw" as it were.
Miss FARRAH I still have her poster on my wall . She was not high in this interview..Plain &Simple she was fighting Anal cancer.. She was brave till the end.. Beautiful Lady.. R.I.P Farrah..
She graced the wall next to the front door in my brother's first house. That's what I remember about that house- Farrah on the wall and Hotel California playing on the stereo🙂
You can't just 'no-show' at the last minute on a national talk show... That's also not exactly good for a performer's reputation. A 50-year-old does not need babysitters to make her decisions for her. Why place the blame on others when it was her own responsibility & nobody else's to arrive at a national talk show interview in a coherent state? She only made a fool of herself there, no one else did it for her. The whole crowd knew she was wasted, & she was the only one who could have made things go differently, but she had to live with her reckless decision... "Them's the breaks". P. S. She was feeling no pain.
Wow talk about a dizzy blonde! Hahaha... She was stoned and drunk but so adorable. She knew they were having fun with it, and David just went with it. Farrah was an awesome girl, and she didn't take herself seriously at all. She was beautiful here, as she always was.
