b'With the role, Farrah also found her philanthropic mission in life, bringing attention to domestic abuse. In her appear-ance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in support of the film, the public got their first real look into Farrahs heart and the genuine caring and sympathy she had for women less fortunate than herself. The film clip played on the show from The Burning Bed was a shock to millions who had never seen one of the worlds most beautiful women in the most unglam-orous of roles, delivering a very real and mesmerizing perfor-mance. Farrah Fawcett at last had found the role that qualified her as a serious actress.THEY WERE ALWAYS WATCHING. Imagine the entirety of your romantic life, from the earliest age that you had any sort of romantic life, being observed by everyone you know, and then hundreds of people you dont know, and then mil-lions of people you will never know. For a few of us, it may sound fun at first. In practice, it sounds more like a living nightmare. This was the reality Farrah lived her entire life, and to some, might be considered the biggest price she paid in ex-change for living as one of the worlds most celebratedand highly paidbeauties.As a freshman at UT, Farrah was having her calls screened within weeks of moving into the dorms, and after she was named and published as one of the 10 most beautiful girls Happy DaysAbove: Farrah with partner Ryan ONeal andon campus, young men from other colleges in other cities son Redmond on a red carpet in 2003. Right: Farrah accept- were making weekend road trips just for a chance of getting ing her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. a glance of her. It wasnt long before the sisters of Delta Delta 76THE COASTAL BEND GUIDE TheCoastalBend.com'