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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Arts / Life It Is My Sad Duty to Inform You

Posted by David Schmader on Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:34 PM

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...that the earthly existence of Bea Arthur has come to an end.

(As Entertainment Tonight reports, she was 86, at home, and had been battling cancer. Thanks for the breaking news, Slog Tipper Reggie, and while Bea Arthur's death makes me sadder than I would've imagined, I can't wait for the impending avalanche of posthumous tributes to her lifelong bad-assery.)

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This is really bumming me out. Bea, you were an awesome woman and a true golden girl.

Posted by Dave on April 25, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Lame. :(

Posted by Lily Fluffbottom on April 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM

Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty are both in Heaven eating cheesecake on a pearly patio.

Posted by Bub on April 25, 2009 at 2:19 PM

I'm a little too young to have known Bea from much except Golden Girls (and never exposed myself to more of her) but still think she was clearly The Awesome. Thanks Bea!

Posted by leek on April 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM

sad. I have memories of being babysat by my grandmother, and being forced to watch Golden Girls.
During that time I developed a like for Matlock.

Posted by blah! on April 25, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Pah, golden girls and broadway. She'll always be "anything but tranquilizin', right-on" Maude Findlay to me.

Posted by emma's bee on April 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feh1JK9qc…

Here's part one of three of Bea and Graham Norton in 2001...from my YouTube channel

Posted by Chefgirl on April 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM

i've been inundating myself with "maude," "mame," and "the golden girls" all afternoon. here's to you, bosom buddy.

Posted by gin? yes, please. on April 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM

funny...i was watching Futurama last night and it was the episode where she brilliantly voiced the Femputer on the Amazonia planet. Broadway, (and in addition to Mame she was in Fiddler on the Roof, too, among many other plays/musicals), Maude, Golden Girls...the dame rocked them all...

A big, teary toast to Bea Arthur.

Posted by michael strangeways on April 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM

Thank you for bein' a friend, Bea.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball on April 25, 2009 at 5:59 PM

I'll miss you Bea!

Posted by Pat on April 25, 2009 at 7:36 PM

The only fitting tribute would be to add a line for her to "And Then There's Maude".

Posted by K on April 25, 2009 at 8:14 PM

Now that poor schlub Walter can spread his wings a bit.

Posted by Vortechs on April 25, 2009 at 11:10 PM

She even managed to class up that wretched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXKySxPF…">"Star Wars Holiday Special"

Just one more round friends,
Then homeward bound friends...

Posted by Grand Moff Tarkin on April 26, 2009 at 12:03 AM

Walter, there's a thin line between love and hate...and you're slowly erasing it!

Posted by Yorkin Lear on April 26, 2009 at 3:15 AM

Thank goodness for Bea Arthur and the Golden Girls, if not for shows like that and the People's Court, etc. my summer's as a junior higher would have been even more dismally dull

Posted by Nomad on April 27, 2009 at 6:21 AM

Thank you for being a friend Bea! I will always remember dressing up in my Grandma's clothes, pretending to be the Golden Girls with my sisters. That was the one show we were allowed to watch, even though I was five and didn't get the jokes.

Posted by CatBiell on April 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM