Lori Acken

2 days ago | remindmagazine.com | Lori Acken

In the 1970s, everyone wanted to be as sexy and successful as Farrah Fawcett — and advertisers knew it. With her fluffy feathered hair, megawatt smile and come hither (and buy this!) voice, Fawcett became a popular pitch woman even before she took pop culture flight as one of Charlie’s Angels. By the mid 1980s, Fawcett went on to critical acclaim in serious roles and left the commercial world behind her.

5 days ago | tvinsider.com | Lori Acken

This excerpt appearscourtesy of our partner site The Bionic Woman star Lindsay Wagner knew she wanted an acting career early on. Born in L.A. on June 22, 1949, Wagner dropped out of college to roll the Hollywood dice and got good early notices in the Oscar-winning 1974 film, The Paper Chase.

5 days ago | remindmagazine.com | Lori Acken

The Bionic Woman star Lindsay Wagner knew she wanted an acting career early on. Born in L.A. on June 22, 1949, Wagner dropped out of college to roll the Hollywood dice and got good early notices in the Oscar-winning 1974 film, The Paper Chase. Still, the blond beauty never dreamed she’d became TV’s first female cyborg superhero — and the idol of a jillion little girls — when she guest-starred as the title character’s doomed girlfriend, Jaime Sommers, in The Six Million Man.

6 days ago | tvinsider.com | Lori Acken

Few actors are lucky enough to find a role that keeps them working for more than a decade, let alone one that turns them into a cultural icon. To follow it up with another meaty role — at age 63, in an entirely different genre — is practically unheard of. But tat’s the luck of  Carroll O’Connor, who died 24 years ago today, on June 21, 2001, at the age of 76.

6 days ago | remindmagazine.com | Lori Acken

Few actors are lucky enough to find a role that keeps them working for more than a decade, let alone one that turns them into a cultural icon. To follow it up with another meaty role — at age 63, in an entirely different genre — is practically unheard of. But tat’s the luck of  Carroll O’Connor, who died 24 years ago today, on June 21, 2001, at the age of 76.