Marge Simpson’s Playboy Images Cast Shadow Over Farrah Fawcett

MARGE Simpson is in Playboy magazine. She’s sharing space with the late Farrah Fawcett. Anorak’s Man in Ohio takes a look:

Fans of the late Farrah Fawcett are up in arms over what’s considered to be an insulting, small tribute to the iconic actress in the November issue.

Though there were rumours that Farrah, who died in June, would grace the cover of the magazine she’d posed in twice in the Nineties, cartoon character Marge Simpson gets the cover while Farrah gets a mention in smaller type than Stephen King, Tracy Morgan, Benicio del Toro or some Victoria’s Secret model.

Is a dead cover girl a turn on to readers of Playboy, that aid to masturbation?

One fan commented on this site:

“What a slap in the face of Farrah Fawcett. She was THE sex symbol of the 70s and was on the cover of two of the mag’s most successful issues and THIS is how they pay tribute to her? A simple footnote on the cover??!!

WTF Playboy? You put that drug addicted, ex-stripper Anna Nicole on your cover when she died but Farrah gets upstaged by a cartoon?

Playboy has form. Celebrities sell magazines, even dead ones striking an alluring pose:

How much did FOX pay you for this placement? Huge, missed opportunity here folks. This is why Playboy is barely selling and no longer relevant to consumers — it is edited by a goofy old man so out of touch. Farrah fans are insulted and Playboy once again missed the boat.”

To be no longer relevant and cause fans to react, Playboy might be doing something right. TB gives us a potted history:

Farrah had resisted appearing nude in films or magazines throughout the 1970s and ’80s. When she posed nude in Playboy’s December 1995 issue, it became the best-selling issue of the 1990s, with over four million copies sold worldwide. She returned at age 50 with a Playboy pictorial in the July 1997 issue. That same year, she played Robert Duvall’s wife in The Apostle and wonan Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Actress.

Looks like Playboy did miss the boat. But at least its doing cartoon porn there is no risk of the star dying, nor even aging…

For cartoon porn from your youth read:

Nightmare On Fleet Street: Action And Battle In The Comic Books

Flashback: Norman Saunders S&M Bazooka Porn And Battle Cards

Anorak

Posted: 10th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Gallery Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink