Farrah Fawcett secretly planned to reunite with ex-husband Lee Majors on stage in Las Vegas in the final years before her death, RadarOnline reports.
The “Charlie’s Angels” star and Majors, best known for his role in “The Six Million Dollar Man,” had agreed to end their two decades of estrangement in a very public way.
Majors, through his management, confirmed to RadarOnline the pair had been booked to re-create A.R. Gurney’s famous play “Love Letters,” a drama about two lovers who spend a lifetime trying to get together.
But Fawcett’s cancer, which returned in 2007, put the plan on hold.
Majors’ manager Denny Bond said the two, who married in 1973 and separated six years later, had asked him and filmmaker Craig Nevius to produce and direct the stage show.
“For a period of months Craig Nevius and I worked with several bookers for Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett to go on the road with Love Letters,” Bond told RadarOnline.
“We had many discussions with Lee and Farrah and we had planned on a Las Vegas opening and doing a Los Angeles charity performance for her soon-to-be-established cancer foundation as the kick-off to the tour,” Bond added.
Fawcett and Majors married at the height of their fame; she with Charlies Angels and he with The Six Million Dollar Man.
After divorcing Lee, Fawcett entered an on-again, off-again long-term relationship with Ryan O’Neal.
According to one source, when UCLA declared Fawcett cancer free, she was excited to go back to work.
The project reportedly would have used pictures and home movies of Fawcett and Majors through the years, added the source.
Rocker Billy Corgan says John Mayer is in self-destruct mode.
“He’s trying to destroy his career,” the Smashing Pumpkins frontman, 42, tells Rolling Stone. “Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction, some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he’s trying to blow it up.”
Corgan related himself to the loose-lipped singer, who he calls “a talented guy,” saying that it is “hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground – speaking as somebody who’s done it.”
In the March issue of Playboy, Mayer, 32, sounded off on his two-year relationship with singer Jessica Simpson, who he said was “crazy” in bed and compared her to “sexual napalm.”
“I think for any person who has celebrity to sort of drop rocks at somebody else’s feet like that, there’s things you should really just keep your mouths shut on,” Corgan said. “There’s things that should just be left alone.”
Though he remained mum on whether or not he ever dated Simpson, Corgan previously told Rolling Stone that he had love for the 29-year-old blond.
“Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that,” he said. “My goal in life is to love whoever I think is worth loving, and I think if people knew her like I knew her, they would love her like I do. It’s really simple.”
After relationship with Nick Lachey, Tony Romo and Mayer, Simpson says she remains open to finding lasting love.
“Hopefully I can find a man that understands my life and understands my purpose,” she said at IHeartRadio presents An Evening with Jessica Simpson in New York City. “I hope I don’t die alone, that’s for damn sure.”
Is Katherine Heigl off “Grey’s Anatomy” for good?
Dr. Izzie Stevens has been missing from Seattle Grace Hospital, and now the actress who plays her — Heigl – hasn’t been seen at work.
Although Heigl, 31, was scheduled to return to the set March 1 after three months of maternity leave, “she was not there,” a source close to the situation told People magazine.
Speculation has been mounting that Heigl is off the show for good after six years to focus on her film career. ABC isn’t commenting.
But Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes has agreed to release Heigl from her contract, and it’s now left to ABC Studios and the actress’s rep to work out the final deal.
A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway this fall.
“Unchain My Heart” will open Nov. 7 with preview performances beginning Oct. 8.
Producer Stuart Benjamin said Thursday the show would feature a book by Suzan-Lori Parks and direction by Sheldon Epps. Casting will be announced.
Benjamin worked with the late singer for 15 years and produced “Ray,” the hit movie about his life starring Jamie Foxx. Parks won a Pulitzer Prize for her play “Topdog/Underdog.” An earlier version of the musical called “Ray Charles Live” was produced at California’s Pasadena Playhouse in 2007.
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
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