| [guidogodoy] Friday, June 04, 2010 9:40:39 PM | |
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DOUBLE dose of the flu? Egads! One is bad enough!
Hope you feel better soon!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by joedraper from Friday, June 04, 2010 10:26:54 AM)| |  | joedraper wrote: | | Ah! thanks for clearing that up Guido.. I must've gotten my numbers crossed... My brain hurts (double dose of the flu.)
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| [joedraper] Friday, June 04, 2010 10:26:54 AM | |
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Ah! thanks for clearing that up Guido.. I must've gotten my numbers crossed... My brain hurts (double dose of the flu.)
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Friday, June 04, 2010 10:08:42 AM) |
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| [guidogodoy] Friday, June 04, 2010 10:08:42 AM | |
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Estelle Getty wasn't the youngest. While younger than Bea and Betty, ALL were older than Rue by some 12 years.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by joedraper from Friday, June 04, 2010 9:35:09 AM)| | | joedraper wrote: | | I found it interesting that Estelle Getty was the youngest GG and that Bea Arther and Betty White were the oldest out of them. I wonder what Betty's secret is to her longevity. She looks damn good for 88 and is still fiesty as ever. Even hosting SNL this year. I hope that Rue's death does not have any ill effects on her health. Grief ages people terribly.
I feel like we're at the end of an era.. I'm feeling age now that all the people that have been around my entire lifetime are all dropping like flies... Scares the poop out of me!
| | | metalmaz wrote: | | The Golden Girls was very popular in England is is still shown on cable. It was a great show. I didn't realise that Betty White was the only one still alive and she's 88. |
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| [joedraper] Friday, June 04, 2010 9:35:09 AM | |
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I found it interesting that Estelle Getty was the youngest GG and that Bea Arther and Betty White were the oldest out of them. I wonder what Betty's secret is to her longevity. She looks damn good for 88 and is still fiesty as ever. Even hosting SNL this year. I hope that Rue's death does not have any ill effects on her health. Grief ages people terribly.
I feel like we're at the end of an era.. I'm feeling age now that all the people that have been around my entire lifetime are all dropping like flies... Scares the poop out of me!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by metalmaz from Friday, June 04, 2010 9:09:40 AM)| | | metalmaz wrote: | | The Golden Girls was very popular in England is is still shown on cable. It was a great show. I didn't realise that Betty White was the only one still alive and she's 88. |
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| [metalmaz] Friday, June 04, 2010 9:09:40 AM | |
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The Golden Girls was very popular in England is is still shown on cable. It was a great show. I didn't realise that Betty White was the only one still alive and she's 88. |
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| [joedraper] Friday, June 04, 2010 12:23:51 AM | |
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Noooo!!!! Not Blanche!
She was graceful, funny and a damn fine actress.. I love the Golden Girls and I'm saddened that we"ve only got one left.. Poor Betty White, she must be taking this hard.
Way too many good folk leaving this earth.. but I guess we all have to.
R.I.P. Rue Mclanahan and thank you for the laughs and joyous moments you brought to my life.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by momo from Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:31:44 AM)| | | momo wrote: | | First Gary Coleman, then Dennis Hopper and now Golden Girls Rue McClanahan
NEW YORK — Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76.
Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke.
She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on "aging gracefully." In 2009, she had heart bypass surgery.
McClanahan had an active career in off-Broadway and regional stages in the 1960s before she was tapped for TV in the 1970s for the key best-friend character on the hit series "Maude," starring Beatrice Arthur. After that series ended in 1978, McClanahan landed the role as Aunt Fran on "Mama's Family" in 1983.
But her most loved role came in 1985 when she co-starred with Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty in "The Golden Girls," a runaway hit that broke the sitcom mold by focusing on the foibles of four aging — and frequently eccentric — women living together in Miami.
"Golden Girls" aimed to show "that when people mature, they add layers," she told The New York Times in 1985. "They don't turn into other creatures. The truth is we all still have our child, our adolescent, and your young woman living in us."
Blanche, who called her father "Big Daddy," was a frequent target of roommates Dorothy, Rose and the outspoken Sophia (Getty), who would fire off zingers at Blanche such as, "Your life's an open blouse." |
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| [spapad] Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:42:54 PM | |
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I think my best Blanche moment is when she was talking about "younger days" and she just said, "That is the moment, when I realized by breasts could make music! " LOL She was quite the character!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:16:13 PM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | One of my favorite and often repeated quotes from her was when she was asked if she (personally) was anything like Blanche, the sex-crazed character she so skillfully portrayed. Her response? I am not from Atlanta...
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:16:13 PM | |
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One of my favorite and often repeated quotes from her was when she was asked if she (personally) was anything like Blanche, the sex-crazed character she so skillfully portrayed. Her response? I am not from Atlanta...
Damn funny lady. |
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| [HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS] Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:23:51 PM | |
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Amen. I loved her and I loved The Golden Girls. I still think watching the Golden Girls put me into labor with Eric because I was laughing so hard! I timed my contractions by the commercials at first because they were having a Golden Girls marathon.
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, June 03, 2010 11:05:51 AM | |
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Oh, man! Now Blanche. Damn funny woman. I stil remember her from back in Maude days. I'll miss her.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by momo from Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:31:44 AM)| | | momo wrote: | | First Gary Coleman, then Dennis Hopper and now Golden Girls Rue McClanahan
NEW YORK — Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76.
Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke.
She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on "aging gracefully." In 2009, she had heart bypass surgery.
McClanahan had an active career in off-Broadway and regional stages in the 1960s before she was tapped for TV in the 1970s for the key best-friend character on the hit series "Maude," starring Beatrice Arthur. After that series ended in 1978, McClanahan landed the role as Aunt Fran on "Mama's Family" in 1983.
But her most loved role came in 1985 when she co-starred with Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty in "The Golden Girls," a runaway hit that broke the sitcom mold by focusing on the foibles of four aging — and frequently eccentric — women living together in Miami.
"Golden Girls" aimed to show "that when people mature, they add layers," she told The New York Times in 1985. "They don't turn into other creatures. The truth is we all still have our child, our adolescent, and your young woman living in us."
Blanche, who called her father "Big Daddy," was a frequent target of roommates Dorothy, Rose and the outspoken Sophia (Getty), who would fire off zingers at Blanche such as, "Your life's an open blouse." |
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| [momo] Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:31:44 AM | |
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First Gary Coleman, then Dennis Hopper and now Golden Girls Rue McClanahan
NEW YORK — Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76.
Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke.
She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on "aging gracefully." In 2009, she had heart bypass surgery.
McClanahan had an active career in off-Broadway and regional stages in the 1960s before she was tapped for TV in the 1970s for the key best-friend character on the hit series "Maude," starring Beatrice Arthur. After that series ended in 1978, McClanahan landed the role as Aunt Fran on "Mama's Family" in 1983.
But her most loved role came in 1985 when she co-starred with Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty in "The Golden Girls," a runaway hit that broke the sitcom mold by focusing on the foibles of four aging — and frequently eccentric — women living together in Miami.
"Golden Girls" aimed to show "that when people mature, they add layers," she told The New York Times in 1985. "They don't turn into other creatures. The truth is we all still have our child, our adolescent, and your young woman living in us."
Blanche, who called her father "Big Daddy," was a frequent target of roommates Dorothy, Rose and the outspoken Sophia (Getty), who would fire off zingers at Blanche such as, "Your life's an open blouse." |
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