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Brooke Shields Will Not Stand For You Slandering The Memory of Sophia Petrillo!
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Though no one cared enough to actually make it to her funeral, Golden Girls actress Estelle Getty was beloved in Hollywood, where actors and agents whiling down coke benders at 4 a.m. grew to love the misadventures of her sassy Sophia Petrillo during countless late-night Lifetime reruns. Still, that didn’t stop the sketch comics at Upright Citizens Brigade from trotting out their impressions of the actress — as well as those of the deceased Heath Ledger and Bernie Mac — during a 72-hour marathon at the theatre. According to the NY Daily News, celebrity panelist Brooke Shields wasn’t laughing: More »
The Night Is Darkest Before The Dawn
11:15AM Mark Graham | If it weren’t for Dark Knight news, there wouldn’t have been much news at all. After dispatching the Joker, Batman took on his toughest foe to date, the deranged Momzo The Clown (specialty: extortion). Batman denies all of the charges, which is just fine with new Oscar frontrunner Aaron Eckhart. · NBC announced that Jay Leno will be abdicating his Tonight Show throne on May 29, 2009 while a disguised Jay Leno sat in the audience cracking wise. Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon will be spinning his wheels online for a few months before they let him loose on air. · Miley “Slut!” Cyrus took to the YouTubes to wage war on her new rival, Selena Gomez. · If you come within 1,000 yards of Brangelina’s test tube babies, Brad Pitt will beat you to a pulp. · We finally learned what Judd Apatow’s favourite season of The Wire was. · Surfer dude Matthew McConaughey cashed a $3 million check from OK! for baby pictures of young prince Levi. · Maybe it’s just us, but Lyons & Mankiewicz doesn’t quite have the same ring as Ebert & Roeper (let alone Siskel & Ebert). · Cuts at Vantage and Netflix made it another tough week for indie film. · Fer sure, fer sure, we counted down our favourite Valley Girls. · Don’t bother with MapQuest, NPH can tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street. · And finally, the passing of Estelle Getty affected everyone, from teary YouTube eulogists to our own Molly McAleer. The saddest part? None of the Golden Girls made it to the funeral. Nevertheless, the memory of Sophia Petrillo will always live on.
And Now Your Friday Downer: No ‘Golden Girls’ Made It To Estelle Getty’s Funeral
8:50AM Seth | 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: More »
Estelle Getty’s Death Reduces YouTube Eulogist To Puddle Of Tears
7:30AM Seth | We’ll admit to not having yet fully absorbed yesterday’s news that Estelle Getty had shuffled off this mortal coil to the 1912-Sicily-in-the-sky. Stalled as we are in the early, “Why couldn’t it have been someone from Empty Nest?!”-stages of the Kübler-Ross model, we hand you over now to YouTube video diarist fromthe60s. His lachrymal remembrance of “one of the funniest people I ever got to see on TV” is surely the most moving—if not the moistest—user-generated-video testimonial since Leave Britney Alone Guy beseeched us to leave Britney alone. We swear, without the courageousness of Young Gays Who Feel Too Much, there’d be literally nothing to do all day at the office besides work. More »
