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`Golden Girls' star Bea Arthur dies at 86
AP - Yahoo ^ | April 25, 2009 | Lynn Elber

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: beatricearthur; hollywood; obituary
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1 posted on 04/25/2009 12:55:40 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

“My fans’ll get You for that, God.”

2 posted on 04/25/2009 12:57:18 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: EveningStar

Prayers for Bea Arthur and family.


3 posted on 04/25/2009 12:57:50 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: EveningStar
She has become a huge Internet phenomenon.
4 posted on 04/25/2009 12:58:02 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: EveningStar

What a shame. I loved that show and still watch the reruns.
RIP, Bea.


5 posted on 04/25/2009 12:58:46 PM PDT by azishot (I just joined the NRA.)
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To: EveningStar

Rest in peace Ms. Arthur.


6 posted on 04/25/2009 12:59:23 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: EveningStar

“and then there’s Maude”...glad to see you ES.


7 posted on 04/25/2009 12:59:58 PM PDT by chasio649
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To: RichInOC

I always had a bad feeling about her after that Maude show about abortion.


8 posted on 04/25/2009 1:00:34 PM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
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To: EveningStar
And then there's Maude. . .
9 posted on 04/25/2009 1:00:37 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: EveningStar
I never really paid attention to her except that I thought she had an unusually rasp voice and must have been a serious smoker.

If true ... 86 ain't too awful bad.

Prayers for her family and Betty White.

10 posted on 04/25/2009 1:01:22 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: EveningStar
Bea was always ahead of her time:

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_(TV_series)

11 posted on 04/25/2009 1:04:10 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: Borges; dighton

ping


12 posted on 04/25/2009 1:07:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: ottbmare; krb

Maude’s Dillemma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YjB6Szch4

Found it on YouTube


13 posted on 04/25/2009 1:09:17 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: ottbmare

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.


14 posted on 04/25/2009 1:11:31 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: EveningStar

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.


15 posted on 04/25/2009 1:11:43 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: beaversmom

(quietly retching here) I didn’t remember Adrienne Barbeau being quite so self-righteous. Disgusting episode.


16 posted on 04/25/2009 1:19:42 PM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
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To: EveningStar

never cared about Maude but Maude’s daughter was smokin’ hot!


17 posted on 04/25/2009 1:20:02 PM PDT by isom35
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To: ottbmare

It really was sickening.


18 posted on 04/25/2009 1:23:36 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: EveningStar

19 posted on 04/25/2009 1:23:55 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: EveningStar

Soooooooo aqnother hate the Contitution commie dies....I dont care!


20 posted on 04/25/2009 1:25:15 PM PDT by rrrod
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