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Bea Arthur, RIP
In 1972, Bea Arthur was cast as the title character in the television series Maude. She played Maude Findlay, an outspoken liberal living in the affluent community of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, with her husband, Walter (Bill Macy) and divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau). The show was a spin-off from All in the Family, on which Arthur had appeared a couple of times in the same role, playing Edith Bunker's (Jean Stapleton)'s cousin, a feminist, and antithesis to the bigoted, conservative Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor), who described Maude as a "New Deal fanatic." Her role garnered several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, including her Emmy win in 1977 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.Video of Bea Arthur singing in the Star Wars cantina, and other videos below...In 1978, she costarred in the much derided The Star Wars Holiday Special, in which she had a song and dance routine, where the Star Wars character Greedo was one of her dance partners.
After appearing in the short-lived 1983 sitcom Amanda's (an unsuccessful US version of the British hit series Fawlty Towers), Arthur was cast in the hit sitcom The Golden Girls in 1985, in which she played Dorothy Zbornak, a divorced substitute teacher living in a Miami, Florida house owned by Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan). Her other roommates included widow Rose Nylund (Betty White) and Dorothy's Sicilian mother, Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty). Getty was actually a year younger than Arthur in real life, and was heavily made up to look significantly older. [Wikipedia]
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Posted on April 25, 2009 4:37 PM
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That dude was old...
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 4:50 PM
If the camera hadn't stayed on Bea Arthur for the entire clip, I wouldn't have been able to pick her out of the crowd in the cantina.
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 5:12 PM
I'd hit it.
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 5:17 PM
^
^^
^^^
classy jokes. it's a nice day out, maybe you could also pull some pigtails in the park as well.
RIP
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 5:25 PM
i wouldn't hit it with bea arthur's dick
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 5:30 PM
5:25 -- is "pulling pigtails in the park" some kind of sexual innuendo like "dirty sanchez" or "rusty trombone"?
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 5:53 PM
"pulling pigtails in the park" is a euphemism for jerking it while being tazed by cops at an outdoor venue where you decided to get nude. it's kind of difficult to pull of all of the elements at once, but when you do, boy oh boy watch out! it's unlike anything you've experienced before!
Posted by dumb naked hippie | April 25, 2009 6:13 PM
6:13 ran well with a weak comment by 5:53. that's more like it. off-topic and referencing another BV post. well done.
much better than ripping off jokes that weren't funny a decade ago...
-5:25
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 6:36 PM
I'm currently doing a Bea Arthur/Jay-Z mashup that will be entitled "Bea-Jay".
Posted by Danger Mouse | April 25, 2009 6:39 PM
Pontiac, RIP
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2009/04/pontiac-.html
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 7:20 PM
Why should a hipster like myself care about this? When's the next Animal Collective show?
Posted by Venkman | April 25, 2009 7:37 PM
why is this even on BV? a sit-com actress?!
Posted by whack | April 25, 2009 7:47 PM
7:37 and 7:47 are dumb.
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 7:53 PM
7.53's dumb
i'll always remember her as a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world.
:'(
Posted by lulz patrol | April 25, 2009 7:57 PM
any self-respecting hipster understands bea arthur's ironic appeal. of course bv should post about it.
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 8:01 PM
I heard that she ODed on pills that she got from one of the Olsen twins
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 8:01 PM
bea arthur was a big influence on dan deacon
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 8:05 PM
R.I.P. dan DEAKINS
Posted by D.D'S MOMS | April 25, 2009 8:19 PM
I farted again.
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 8:39 PM
Seriously though, how good is Merriweather Post Pavillion?
Posted by Venckman | April 25, 2009 9:13 PM
mpp is good if you're white.
Posted by i'm MLK | April 25, 2009 9:46 PM
bea arthur is whiteeeeeeeeee
Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 11:41 PM
Bea Arthur has a posse
Posted by amiright? | April 26, 2009 1:22 AM
Can someone please tell me what time Daft Punk goes on?
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 1:42 AM
thank you for being a friend bea
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 2:11 AM
the fucking media!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 2:37 AM
football helmet full of cottage cheese and naked pictures of bea arthur
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 3:01 AM
football helmet full of cottage cheese and naked pictures of bea arthur
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 3:05 AM
Umm, no, that's not Greedo. He was dead by that point, having been shot by Han Solo. It's another member of the same species: Rodian. So much for accurate journalism in the blogosphere. Shit.
Posted by SPF | April 26, 2009 9:32 AM
hey SPF, are you single.... got plans tonight? i <3 U
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 10:13 AM
You guys all suck. I'll miss you, Bea! Thanks for the post, BV.
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 10:47 AM
Im depressed. 2 golden girls down. 2 to go.
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 11:22 AM
Love ya Bea
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 1:59 PM
Everybody who represents Shady Pines tip ya 40's.
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 2:02 PM
Maude invented punk rock. Freedom rider, stitcher up of the falling apart, rider of the adrienne barbeau fader, anything but tranquilizing, right on Maude 4 ever and ever
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 6:25 PM
She ain't no punk, you punk:(
/wanna talk about the real junk?
Posted by Xmind | April 26, 2009 7:21 PM
http://www.myspace.com/goldengirlsgoerotic
Posted by Anonymous | April 26, 2009 9:15 PM
Drew Thurlow
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2009 9:05 AM
mr brownstone fuckin rocks!
Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2009 3:17 PM
"You're a Golden Girl, just like Bea Arthur. Now turn out the lights so we can go fartha...Boomin' Granny."
Posted by Mike D | April 27, 2009 3:34 PM
they made a book outta that?
Posted by Sacred Absolute Hipster Cow | April 27, 2009 5:31 PM