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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Golden Girls

Golden Girls stories: 5 news summaries

 Bea Arthur Called 
 Betty White a What? 

Tribute to Golden Girls comic recalls her funny—often dirty—comments

(Newser) - Bea Arthur’s sharp humor and potty mouth were remembered at yesterday’s tribute to the late actor, People reports. Recollections ranged from the reverent—“She really taught me how to be a feminist,” said Rosie O’Donnell—to the raunchy—“God, I want to fuck... More »

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appreciation

 'Imperious' Arthur 
 Was a 'Thunderbolt' 

Comedian broke new ground in Maude, Golden Girls

(Newser) - Bea Arthur may not have been television’s most iconic actress, “but no woman ever made so many people so happy by being so imperious, so decisive, so just plain bossy,” Ken Tucker writes in Entertainment Weekly. No one defied or upstaged her on Maude or Golden Girls,... More »

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 Golden Girl Bea Arthur 
 Dead at 86 

TV legend made a career out of playing acerbic heroines

(AP) - 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, died today at age of 86. Arthur, who had cancer, died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side. “... More »

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GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Octu-Mom 
 Reality Show 
 Not Such a 
 Done Deal 

Plus, other B-listers get reality shows, more

(Newser) - Don’t set your DVRs just yet: Nadya Suleman’s reality show isn’t finalized, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Though Suleman claimed a show in the UK was practically a done deal, no network has agreed to carry it—and an agreement with the production company is still pending.... More »

OPINION

 Andrea Mitchell, 
 Gay Icon 

Community seems fascinated with correspondent, if somewhat secretly

(Newser) - Cher, Barbra Streisand, Madonna … and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell? Yes, John Koblin and Zachary Woolfe write in the New York Observer, Mrs. Alan Greenspan is an icon to gay men, if not as celebrated. “She’s the Golden Girls rolled into one,” one fan says: “The... More »

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