Maude and Golden Girls star Bea Arthur passed away over the weekend.A family spokesman told AP the Emmy and Tony Award winner had cancer, and died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles. Arthur was 86.
I met Bea Arthur once a few years ago when she hosted opening night of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. She had such...presence, you know. It was a true honor to shake her hand, for she’d made me laugh so much over the years.
She wasn’t the cuddly type (at least not with this perfect-stranger fan), but she was delightful and friendly and warm.
The world’s a little less bright now without her…a little less golden, indeed. But it remains a lot better for having had Arthur in it.
Click here to read some of her friends and colleagues’ reaction (including Betty White’s) to this sad news.
Photo: InsideSoCal.com.
Update: Click here to read a remembrance by Rue McClanahan.
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