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I mean, it was so good, they named it.
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04/27/09
I loved Golden Girls, but I love her for Futurama as well. In the commentaries, the cast and crew never seemed to shy away from criticizing guests they didn't like, so the fact that they had nothing but glowing praise for Bea Arthur makes me think that yes, she really was that cool.
04/27/09
Like others, I feel like we haven't come as far as we should have. Sigh. Of course, I did grow up in the conservative South.
But now I want to see that whole episode. And I would love to watch a Golden Girls marathon, but I'm working late tonight.
Bea will be missed.
04/27/09
"Interestingly, when GG first premiered, Dorothy was about the age of Kim Cattrall in the SATC movie."
Isn't it amazing how both shows addressed the issue of "older" women but portrayed them COMPLETELY differently?
04/27/09
Actually, the GG/SATC comparisons are superficial at best: a group of women who are (1) friends, and (2) over 30. And that's it. I have the feeling the Golden Girls would've seen the SATC women as frivolous twits who cared more about shoes than social justice and who didn't know the value of a damn dollar. But maybe I'm just projecting...
04/27/09
I loved seeing Bea in interviews and especially at roasts, as her wit was quick and razor-sharp, and she could trade barbs with the best of them.
04/27/09
On a side note, I also caught Richard Marx at another game. I bring the 80s awesome sauce when I attend games, apparently.
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Bea, thanks for the laughs. You were a comic genius.
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Okay, it's campy. But I find it fascinating, the nonachalance about- admit it- some really awful drugs. Believe me, I'm a proud liberal, but watching this, and thinking of the era it was broadcast in- even if it was meant to be comic, I swear watching it I see the origins of right-wingers' complaints about a "permissive" society, when Bea and Rock are comically treating angel dust, poppers, heroin, and coke as light-hearted matters.
Please don't get me wrong, I think it's funny. But I also think how horrified a lot of conservative people might have been at the laundry-list of drugs treated so lightly and amusingly on their TVs in 1977. I'm endlessly fascinated by the excesses of the 1970's, and I hate to sound so prudish. I'm just suspecting that when the counterculture went as mainstream as this, the organized backlash began in earnest. Just musing, thinking aloud..
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(And hopefully the conservatives saw it that way too ...)
You could be dead right, of course ...
04/27/09
That film, in addition to being gut-bustingly funny, also had Madeline Kahn, who combined sexiness and absurdity with wit, and Harvey Korman, whose diction and timing he used for comic brilliance.
Bea Arthur was one of the great "straight men". She had a deadpan delivery that couldn't be matched and fed great lines to all around.
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