I know what you're thinking. Probably the same thing I was thinking when I first saw this edition of High Society on the newsstands.
FARRAH FAWCETT!!!...actually, she was still known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors at the time (the late 70's), but what's in a name, right? It was Farrah-fucking-Fawcett-fucking-Majors, and on the cover of a trashy magazine like High Society, no less! And what's this? A naked breast poking out of that famous swimsuit? Closer inspection reveals that, yes indeed, it is exactly what it appears to be.
Unfortunately the same could not be said of the model. Not that the sneaky bastards at High Society were being honest about it. Read the text next to "Farrah": "GUESS WHO? (Hint: She's an Angel---Only Pink)".
A closer observation of the photograph reveals, much to my disappointment and dismay, that not only is she NOT an Angel...she's NOT Farrah, either. It could be nothing more than a cruel joke perpetrated by publisher Gloria Leonard and her cronies at the magazine, a prank designed to break the hearts of countless teenage boys for whom the magazine, despite it classification as "adult material", was actually marketed to. The more you look at this woman (on the cover and in the pictorial inside), you have to ask how you ever thought it was her in the first place. The model bears only a passing resemblance to Mrs. Fawcett-Majors...perhaps the illusion was enhanced by the swimsuit and the pose, straight from the poster that hung in so many bedrooms.
But you know what? When you're a teenager with a copy of High Society in your hands, and there's a woman who looks like Farrah Fawcett on the cover...she might as well BE Farrah Fawcett. For all intents and purposes, she IS Farrah Fawcett. :)
Out of respect for the look-alike, I will say this. Having seen Farrah's nude shots in Playboy and comparing them to what I remember of the High Society model, I gotta say, in this case the copy surpassed the original. Sorry, Farrah.
