“My fans’ll get You for that, God.”
Posted on 04/25/2009 12:55:40 PM PDT by EveningStar
Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" and who won a Tony Award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday. She was 86.
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“My fans’ll get You for that, God.”
Prayers for Bea Arthur and family.
What a shame. I loved that show and still watch the reruns.
RIP, Bea.
Rest in peace Ms. Arthur.
“and then there’s Maude”...glad to see you ES.
I always had a bad feeling about her after that Maude show about abortion.
If true ... 86 ain't too awful bad.
Prayers for her family and Betty White.
Maude had an abortion in November 1972, two months before the Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal nationwide, and the episodes which dealt with the situation are probably the series' most famous and most controversial. Maude, at age 47, was crushed when she found herself pregnant, and everyone agreed with her that having a baby at her age was very risky and not a wise thing to happen. Her daughter, Carol, brought to her attention that abortion was now legal in New York state. After some soul-searching (and discussions with Walter, who agreed that raising a baby at their ages was not very wise), Maude tearfully decided at the end of the two-parter that abortion was probably the best choice. Noticing the wide controversy around the episode, CBS decided to rerun the episodes in August 1973, and members of the country's clergy reacted strongly to the decision. At least 30 stations dropped the show.[citation needed] Future Golden Girls creator Susan Harris was a writer on the episode.
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Well, Maude was a loudmouthed New York liberal, and I figured Beatrice was...not entirely unlike that in real life. But she was still funny.
Don’t forget her small but hilarious part as the unemployment office worker in “History of the World Part 1.”
May she rest in peace.
(quietly retching here) I didn’t remember Adrienne Barbeau being quite so self-righteous. Disgusting episode.
never cared about Maude but Maude’s daughter was smokin’ hot!
It really was sickening.
Soooooooo aqnother hate the Contitution commie dies....I dont care!
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