RIP Bea Arthur

Long before Maude and Golden Grrls, Bea Arthur was a star:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-bea-appreciation27-2009apr27,0,1470617.story


RIP

 

Spnited actually babysat Bea Arthur.

 

Great article.

 

Great line:

"Let's face it," Arthur once quipped, "nobody ever asked me to play Juliet."

 

It was a roast of Jerry Stiller. Sandra Bernhardt had just sung Heart's "Magic Man" to Stiller, which led Ross to say, "I wouldn't fuck Sandra Bernhardt with Bea Arthur's dick."

 

At her NSFW best roasting Pam Anderson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/bea-arthur-roasts-pamela_n_192042.html

 

I've been watching a lot of Golden Girls in the morning since I had my daughter (needless to say, GG comes on quite early in the morning here).

I forgot how funny that show is, mostly due to the half of the ensemble that is now dead.

 

Golden Girls is an extremely well-written show. I've onlly begun to properly appreciate that through watching the reruns.

RIP, Bea. Highly entertaining lady. As others have said, few can deliver a barb like she did. She'll be missed.

 

GG was so well written. The episode where Dorothy's 22-year-old son is marrying a 44-year-old black woman is on now:

1. Woman's mother: "If you want to marry a young man, fine. You are not marrying this skinny white boy. I can name 10 young single black men right off the top of my head."

Blanche: "Wait just a minute while I get a pencil."

2. [Sophia arrives home from a trip seeing both families in the living room]: "What is this, a revival of raisin in the son?"

3. Blanche: "Dorothy, if they want to get married there's nothing you can do about it. They're adults and they can do whatever they want."

Rose: "That's not necessarily true, Blanche. Adults aren't allowed to ride the little horsey at the A&P."