Uh-oh—don't let that crying kid on YouTube see this, lest we prepare for a tsunami of waterworks that could very well short-out the entire internet: None of the surviving Golden Girls showed up to Estelle Getty's funeral. Not even her own daughter. Inside Edition tracked down two of the three to find out where they were:

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· Get ready for the summer of exploitation on E! If Denise Richards or Dating Nightmares doesn't do it for ya, might we interest you in the White Oprah and her fame-starved daughter Ali? Nothing warms our cockles like the sight of a table full of sycophantic slags toasting a 14-year-old's non-existant career with champagne! [E!]
· What better way to honour Bea Arthur on her birthday than by counting down her 10 best moments? [BWE]
· Videogum is on the hunt for TWMOAT. What's that, you ask? The Worst Movie Of All-Time, natch. [Videogum]
· While the hot Muppet meme of the moment seems to be Sad Kermit singing "Needle In The Hay", we here at Defamer HQ vastly prefer Miss Piggy's tribute to "Fuck The Pain Away." [YouTube via Fimoculous]
· Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped bring Phil Spector's "Wall Of Sound" to life, passed away at the age of 80. Roll down your windows and play The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" extra loud tonight in his honour. [LAT]

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We still feel terrible about the cheap shot we took at Bea Arthur yesterday, a legendary actress who, for all we know, deserves placement on the controversial list in question no more than Golden Girls castmate Rue McClanahan. In an attempt to atone for that transgression (and to repay in some small fashion all the joy she gave us by pimp-slapping that mouthy Rose back to St. Olaf each and every week of the show's seven seasons), we pass along this Entertainment Tonight segment on Arthur's episode of TV Land's Back to the Grind, in which the rerun-obsessed network generously attempts to return retired sitcom stars to mainstream society by giving them the practical work skills they once faked for millions of viewers. We know by the time you get to the part where she chews out the kid for texting, you'll already have forgiven us for the bad thing we did.

• Entertainment Tonight [ETOnline.com]