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We wanted to start off the week with a tribute to one of our favorites – Beatrice Arthur who recently passed away. We loved her on “The Golden Girls” and we also loved her on”Maude”.

Bea Arthur – Thanks for all the great memories and the great laughs!! You will be missed!!!

See below for a tribute to her talent and we’ve even included the Theme from Maude!!! Enjoy!!

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Bea Arthur: Grand Dame of Comedy; Click to read Courier-Journal.com Article

From The Courier-Journal.com

Beautiful Bea Arthur

Editorial

Some people have a time with talented women who aren’t stereotypically “easy on the eyes.” Witness the recent global meltdown over the realization that a woman with prominent eyebrows, an unstylish ‘do and a sturdy body could actually — yes! — sing like an angel.

Maybe that explains why, when the great comedic actress Beatrice Arthur passed away earlier this week, The New York Times — another “grey lady,” incidentally — ran this inelegant headline: “Bea Arthur, TV Battle-Ax, Dies at 86.” We would note that when Carroll O’Connor died several years earlier, the same pub did not use a headline to call him a “TV Bellowing Bigot,” but that would take us away from our point, which is to praise the body of work Ms. Arthur left behind for those of us in TV Land.

Click to hear "The Theme From Maude"

In “Maude,” she was a liberated woman trapped in the older traditions of a changing world. She was a housewife-plus a brash political junkie and pontificator but ultimately a pussycat.

Her softer side made loud and proud “Maude” palatable. She wore her white liberal guilt like one of her extravagant tunics, the flip side of Cousin Archie’s buttoned-up conservatism. When John Wayne came to visit, everyone expected a showdown; instead, she melted and said, “What the hell, let’s dance.”

Ms. Arthur rang the TV legend bell a second time with her portrayal of Dorothy Zbornak in “The Golden Girls.” Smart, sassy and again vulnerable, Ms. Arthur scored in a role that showed post-menopausal women in fine fashion and even finer fettle — no matter that she had . . . More . . .

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Click below to read a great article from the Los Angeles Times and to see a slideshow from The New York Times:

=Beatrice Arthur: A Towering Comedic Talent From Another Era  (Los Angeles Times)
 
=Bea Arthur: That Voice, That Wit (New York Times [Slideshow])

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