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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
People

Bea Arthur’s Top 5 Contributions To Pop Culture

7:00AM Tracie | Actress Bea Arthur passed away on April 25, at the age of 86, from cancer. While she personally didn’t identify as feminist, her career made an enormous impact on the women’s movement. More »
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
People

Bea Arthur, Beloved Gay Icon, 1922-2009

10:12AM Owen Thomas | Golden Girls star Bea Arthur, née Bernice Frankel, died at home in Los Angeles at the age of 86 today. She passed away surrounded by family members. She will be loudly mourned by the gays. More »
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Betty White On Sarah Palin: ‘That Is One Crazy Bitch!’

5:16AM Seth | Are we sick of Sarah Palin jokes yet? Yes—yes we do believe we are, yet not since Brokeback Mountain has a single cultural phenomenon offered comedy writers (and ankle-shackled galley bloggers) such a bounty of low-hanging fruit. More »
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The ‘Golden Gals Gone Wild’ Opening At The World of Wonder Gallery

3:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Knowing that no matter how many times we watched Bea Arthur scold those kids on Friday, our renewed lust for all things Golden Girls-related could not possibly be sated by just a single video clip, we dispatched Defamer Partywatcher Ann and photographer Amy Rodrigue to the World of Wonder gallery in Hollywood to the Saturday night opening of “Golden Gals Gone Wild,” the “first art exhibition devoted to erotic depictions” of Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and perhaps most distressingly, Sophia. (Don’t fret if you didn’t make the launch – the show is running for four weeks, giving you plenty of time to ogle their gilded goodies.) A brief report follows after the jump: More »
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

The Reeducation of Dorothy Zbornak

8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | 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] More »
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