John Forsythe Loses Battle w/Colon Cancer At 92.

Dynasty star John Forsythe, who played patriarch Blake Carrington on the primetime soap and was the voice of Charlie in both the TV and film versions of Charlie’s Angels, lost his nearly four-year-battle with cancer on Thursday.

In a statement Friday, Reuters reported, “The family of John Forsythe sadly announces his passing on April 1, 2010. He was 92 years old and, thankfully, he died as he lived his life … with dignity and grace, after a years-long struggle with cancer.”

Forsythe, who also played Bentley Gregg, the swinging single saddled with an orphaned niece on the 1957-62 sitcom Bachelor Father, received three Emmy nominations for Dynasty, which ran from 1981-89. After making his film debut in 1943, he also appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock movies The Trouble with Harry (1955) and Topaz (1969), as well as 1988’s Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, among many others.
Born John Lincoln Freund in Penn’s Grove, N.J., Forsythe found his first love in the Brooklyn Dodgers. He dropped out of the University of North Carolina to become their stadium announcer.

A two-year marriage at 20 to actress Paula McCormick produced a son, Dall. A second marriage, to Julie Warren, lasted from 1943 until her death in 1994 and produced two daughters: Page and Brooke.

In 2002, he married businesswoman Nicole Carter, who, along with his children, survive him

After serving as a speech rehabilitation counselor for shell-shocked Air Force pilots during World War II (“maybe the most rewarding moments of my life,” he told PEOPLE), Forsythe came back to the Actors Studio and theater. Teahouse of the August Moon and Mr. Roberts on Broadway led to TV and his movie career.
In 2006, it was revealed Forsythe had been diagnosed with colon cancer.

He will be remembered for his distinguished voice and courtly presence on screen. Off screen, it was his modesty that separated him from the rest of the crowd.

In 1979, Forsythe told PEOPLE, “I’m not a soaring talent. I am a good journeyman actor, but nowhere near the league of Brando or Scott. Those people are touched by the hand of God.”

Rest*In*Power “Blake Carrington.”

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.

Academy Defends Farrah Diss.

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The Academy Awards row over a perceived snub to Farrah Fawcett showed no sign of abating late Tuesday, with an Oscars chief defending the decision to omit the late “Charlie’s Angels” star from the gala’s In Memoriam segment.

The executive director of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Bruce Davis, said it was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett and he was not surprised that fans and family members are upset.

Davis told the Associated Press his colleagues thought Fawcett was best known for her “remarkable television work” and would be more appropriately honored by at the Emmy Awards

On Tuesday afternoon Ryan O’Neal told Radar Online that the Academy should “speak and explain their decision”.

The entertainment website reported that the Academy had to whittle more than 100 names down to about 30, with Fawcett not making the cut.

Farrah had been a member of the academy since 1979 and was even a presenter one year.

E! Online also questioned Fawcett’s omission Tuesday – while noting that Michael Jackson, who has a far skimper film resume than the actress, made it.

TMZ also went in to bat for the actress – headlining its report of Davis’ explanation for the decision as “The Oscars Produce BS Farrah Fawcett Excuse”.

A poll on the website asking if the “Oscars excuse” was ‘BS’ (bullshit) or ‘makes sense’ had more than 21,000 voters, with 93 per cent of those backing TMZ’s take on the ommission.

For the record Fawcett’s film background included 19 movies, leading to nominations for a Golden Globe (“Extremities”) and Spirt Award (“The Apostle”).

“Indeed, Bea Arthur and Ed McMahon, like Fawcett better remembered for their TV work than their movie roles, were also overlooked during the segment, which also included nods to Patrick Swayze, Brittany Murphy, Jean Simmons and Karl Malden,” E! Online reported.

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.

Tatum O’Neal Pissed Off By Farrah Fawcett OSCAR “Diss”!

“On behalf of myself, my father Ryan O’Neal and my entire family, we are deeply saddened that a truly beautiful and talented actress Farrah Fawcett was not included in the memorial montage during the 82nd Academy Awards. We are bereft with this exclusion of such an international icon who inspired so many for so many reasons. Beautiful, talented Farrah will never be forgotten by her family and amazing fans.”– Tatum O’Neal.

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s C0-Defendant.

Academy Snubs Farrah Fawcett During Memorial Tribute; Ryan O’Neal Speaks Out.

Farrah Fawcett’s longtime partner, Ryan O’Neal, has joined other Hollywood figures including Jane Fonda and Roger Ebert in expressing dismay that Fawcett was left out of the “In Memoriam” segment of Sunday’s Academy Awards. “There is no comment other than we were disappointed that she was not included,” a rep for O’Neal says. Fonda and Ebert both Tweeted about the snub during the broadcast. “No Farrah Fawcett in the memorial tribute? Major fail,” Ebert wrote. “And where was Farrah Fawcett? She should have been included #oscars #FAIL,” wrote Fonda.

The “In Memoriam” portion of the broadcast features a montage of film-industry figures who have passed away in the previous year. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences spokeswoman Leslie Unger says the segment can only honor so many people.  “Every year it’s an unfortunate reality that we can’t include everybody,” she tells the Associated Press. BullSh*t!!! Even before the show, Academy executive director Bruce Davis spoke about the difficult process of creating the segment. “It is the single most troubling element of the Oscar show every year,” he told AP last week. “Because more people die each year than can possibly be included in that segment.”  Davis explained that he and a small committee narrow an initial list of more than 100 people down to about 30. “It gets close to agonizing by the end,” he said. “You are dropping people who the public knows. It’s just not comfortable.”

Fawcett, who died last June at age 62, was primarily a TV actress, though she did appear in a number of feature films.

-“The BklynBandette.” Mr. Hollywood’s Co-Defendant.