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 Happy DaysAbove: Farrah with partner Ryan ONeal andnamed and published as one of the 10 most beautiful girls son Redmond on a red carpet in 2003. Right: Farrah accept- on campus, young men from other colleges in other cities ing her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. were making weekend road trips just for a chance of getting a glance of her. It wasnt long before the sisters of Delta Delta Delta, at first eager for Farrah to join their house, had become bitter and resentful of her popularity with the young mengoing so far as to create nasty rumors that would sully her reputation. She quit the sorority after her sophomore year.The one lucky guy in college for Farrah was Greg Lott, a Long-horn football player who was a year older than her. They were the consummate university couple, and Lott became close to the Fawcett family, visiting them with Farrah in Corpus Chris-ti. In his senior year, it all came crashing down for Lotthe suffered a career-ending injury and at the same time Farrah left for California to take her shot in show business. Lott devolved into a world of alcohol and drug use, and was arrested in New York for transporting marijuana in 1972, and again in 1982 for cocaine possession. After getting married and finding careers paths as a small business owner and as a certified addiction therapist, Lott settled into a quiet life in Austin.Farrah and Lee Majors were separated in 1979 and divorced in 1981. Then along came Ryan ONeal, the Oscar-nominated Love Story leading man who had become one of the most de-sired brands in Hollywood. Farrah and Ryan embarked upon the classic movie star love affair, appearing together on all the big talk shows to cross-promote their various new projects. On January 30, 1985, Farrah and Ryans son, Redmond, was born Above: Farrah speaking at a fundraiser for the Womensin Los Angelestabloid magazines and syndicated TV shows Shelter of the Corpus Christi Area in 1993. Right: Riding in acelebrated the new child of Hollywood royalty, and the picture backhoe with Corpus Christi Mayor Luther Jones in 1984.was that of the perfect show-biz family. 44THE COASTAL BEND GUIDE TheCoastalBend.com'