As far as her producers are concerned, No. 1 Angel Farrah Fawcett-Majors is turning into a devil. Buoyed by the record-breaking sales of Farrah posters and 40 or so movie offers, the Charlie's Angels star has decided to quit the hit ABC series. The Hollywood line has it that she is playing games to raise her salary from $5,000 per episode to as much as $75,000. The word from the Fawcett-Majors household, however, is that the actress has simply done some basic arithmetic. Since Farrah's 5 million poster fans alone would probably lay out $3 to see her famous teeth and other assets in a film, she ought to go into the movies.
Of all the questions he will put to former President Nixon, says British Talk-Show Host and Entertainer David Frost, the one he is tempted to ask first is "Why didn't you destroy the tapes?" Television audiences across the U.S. and abroad will hear what Frost decides on May 4 when the first of the four 90-minute David-and-Dick shows is aired. Chatting about the interviews on WNEW-TV'S Friends of . . . show, Frost, 37, recalled how he informed Nixon that he wanted the shows to appear before the slow summer TV season. Referring to his farewell speech, Nixon said jocularly: "We got a hell of an audience on August 9, 1974." To ensure that same hell of an audience in May, Frost met with his subject at San Clemente last week to iron out final details and digest the briefing books put together by his staff for the marathon taping sessions scheduled from March 23 to April 20. Under the terms of the $650,000-or-so deal, the ex-President has no control over content or editing and cannot see any of the questions in advance. "Nixon can, of course, refuse to answer questions," points out Frost. "But then I am able to film his refusing to answer."
Pamela Poitier, 22. is determined to make it on her own. She turned down a part in Father Sidney Poitier's movie, tentatively titled Piece of the Action, in order to act off-Broadway. "I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be independent and make my statement alone," she explains. Her statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade—and to have her picture taken.
His and hers. Gerald R. Ford and Wife Betty are getting to work on their respective memoirs. His book will begin at the time Nixon selected him as Vice President and will concentrate largely on the events of his presidency. Hers will be a more personal memoir, a candid look at her struggle to balance her roles as public figure, wife and mother. No unseemly family rivalry is likely: the double contract with Co-Publishers Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest will yield the two Fords a cool $1 million.