Farrah's Story cops Emmy nomination

It's one of those best-of-times-worst-of-times mornings for producer Craig Nevius. He and Farrah Fawcett spent years working on the documentary about her travels in search of a cure for her cancer. Then Farrah sold the project to NBC, and when her condition worsened, her boyfriend Ryan O'Neal took control of the project, pushing Nevius out and alowing producers from NBC's Dateline to re-edit and reshoot the nonfiction film into a maudlin, morbid death march.

But Craig Nevius managed to retain his executive producer title.

This morning, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that "Farrah's Story" has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special. So along with NBC's Alexandra Gleysteen and Robert Dean, Craig Nevius is an Emmy nominee.

And so is Farrah, with a posthumous producing nomination (she'd had acting nods for The Burning Bed, Small Sacrfices and The Guardian).

It's all good for Alana Stewart. Farrah's companion on her trips to Germany, who often held the home video camera, not only was first out of the gate with a book deal, she held out at the end for more money and producer's credit. She, too, is an Emmy nominee.

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Alexandra Gleysteen, Executive Producer
Craig Nevius, Executive Producer
Farrah Fawcett, Executive Producer
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(Farrah's Story is up against History Channel's 102 Minutes That Changed America... ABC's Michael J. Fox: Adventures Of An Incurable Optimist... HBO's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired... and HBO's The Alzheimer's Project: Momentum In Science Parts 1 & 2. The Emmy Awards show airs September 20th on CBS.)

Farrah and that red swimsuit

Farrah Fawcett's star rose to the stratosphere after she posed in 1976 for a poster wearing a one-piece swimsuit. It's gone down in pop culture history as the famous "red swimsuit poster." Only it wasn't red. As you can see in these photos, The swimsuit was actually burnt orange. Burnt orange and white are the school colors of The University of Texas at Austin, where Farrah was the most beautiful girl in the Delta Delta Delta sorority when she was discovered by Hollywood. Color bleeds in various printings of the poster evened it out to "red."