Can you believe the Golden Girls finale aired 26 years ago today? We can't! In honor of our favorite show's anniversary, we're reminiscing about our favorite Golden Girls secrets and sweet behind-the-scenes cast moments. During a recent interview, Betty White dished that she and her late co-stars — Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty, and Bea Arthur — not only swapped gossip while on-set but also ended up helping each other through both tears and tragedies during the series' seven seasons. "We adored each other," Betty, now 96, once said. "It was such a special experience. Between scenes, instead of going to our dressing rooms, we'd sit there and yak about very intimate things." Tragedy first struck in the show's first season when both Bea and Betty's mothers passed away. It was a mutual loss that bonded the two for years to come. "My father had died a number of years before I did Maude, so [my mom] was living independently,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Steph Osmanski
- Closer Weekly
As BroadwayWorld reported in August, a homeless shelter specifically for Lgbt youth will open on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in honor of Bea Arthur, a staunch supporter of the Lgbt community. In a feature for the Hollywood Reporter, Matthew Saks, Arthur's older son, discusses his mom's legacy within the Lgbt community and the impact she had during the AIDS crisis, choosing to remain devoted to a group of people who were being increasingly pushed into the margins by the majority of society.
- 9/25/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Back in the early 1970s, when she was playing the outspoken lead on Norman Lear’s All in the Family spin-off, Maude, Bea Arthur would host raucous dinner parties at her Los Angeles home. The guests were by and large gay men — closeted, as most were back then — who were drawn to Arthur, like moths to a porch light. Observing these drunken evenings with fascination was Arthur's then-11-year-old son, Matthew Saks, the elder of two boys she adopted with her second husband, the film and theater director Gene Saks. "They were always excited to come to
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- 9/23/2016
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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