Dirty Dancing was 22 years ago. I'm sure Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze ran into each other one or two times since then, he commiserated about her nose job, and they parted friends.
Bea Arthur also described Estelle Getty as a "slag-bag," many credit her w/ originating the term. Bea's girlz referred to her, affectionately, as 'giner diner'
@Caius: She totally looks like Heidi Montag in this picture. From the thumbnail image I thought Gawker had gotten the pic wrong and was like "Whaaaaa??" when I saw it actually IS Handbags. Seriously though, she's headed down the slippery slope of looking like her brother's wife.
@thatsleepyperson: I thought it was just the mascara at first, but yeah, it looks like she's done something to her lips. Now the question is, has Stephanie had surgery to look like Heidi or did Heidi have surgery to look like her husband's sister? Ew.
@DeadliestSin: I think once you combine bleached blond hair with extensions, a fake tan, a nose job, lip injections, and two pounds of eye makeup, everyone starts to look pretty much the same.
I was with a gaggle of gays when this news broke, and there was much texting and frippering and tears and such. But really what her passing means to me is that we've lost another of that fading generation of entertainers who were, well, just that. Entertainers. Bea acted, she sang, she sorta danced, but really she was just this whole entire package, this portrayer of people, this communicator of stony old weirdo thoughts that theatre writers (and TV writers) dreamed up in their lonely hearts.
And we have a few of those people still, young ones even--like Jane Krakowski and Kristin Chenoweth and, um, Antonio Banderas?--but Bea is just another of that old guard to fleet this earth, an old vet of a showbiz world that was more show than biz. And that's sad. Sure it's a bigger, more important thing to be losing our WWII vets and Holocaust survivors in handfuls, but there's still something to be mourned in this. A vanguard. A tradition that's fading.
So, a glass to you Ms. Bea. What you knew how to do we--gay, straight, whatever!--can only hope to imitate.
@allyzay -- I totally agree. And I gotta say, Owen, how old are you? Doesn't seem like anyone hits as many wrong notes as you do on this site.... and I've been reading it since the beginning.
Oh, nononononono! Horrible. Loved her. As a say-what-you-think (no matter how much it makes the boss hate you), tall, broad-shouldered, not-terribly-feminine girl, I have always loved her. I always will. RIP Bea Arthur.
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And we have a few of those people still, young ones even--like Jane Krakowski and Kristin Chenoweth and, um, Antonio Banderas?--but Bea is just another of that old guard to fleet this earth, an old vet of a showbiz world that was more show than biz. And that's sad. Sure it's a bigger, more important thing to be losing our WWII vets and Holocaust survivors in handfuls, but there's still something to be mourned in this. A vanguard. A tradition that's fading.
So, a glass to you Ms. Bea. What you knew how to do we--gay, straight, whatever!--can only hope to imitate.
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