`Give me a kiss," booms Ryan O'Neal, suddenly plowing into Farrah Fawcett's hotel suite in Manhattan, beefy and boisterous and no little aglow, thanks to affirmative reviews of "Chances Are," a film he hopes will jolt his career out of semi-park.

And so, despite a decade under one roof with O'Neal ("We fight," Fawcett admits, "but my opinion is valid, and I stand behind it now") and their movie-star-adorable son ("Ryan wants another, but I have mixed feelings"), Fawcett covets her independence and wants nothing to do with wedding rings or bouquets.

On Monday night Farrah Fawcett-42 now, and a no-nonsense actress ambitious to the core-takes on the gutsiest lenswoman ever in Turner Network Television's "The Margaret Bourke-White Story," another of a series of big-ticket movie offerings in upstart TNT's move into Big Three territory. It follows several not-unpraised projects that successfully propelled her out of a previous incarnation as cardboard pinup, and is another calculated distancing from Fawcett's jiggle days as a Charlie's Angel. Perhaps significantly, this time Fawcett isn't playing Victim, as in "The Burning Bed" and "Extremities."