The Golden Girls Reunited at Last

Betty White gone at 99.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/31/betty-white-dead-dies-golden-girls/

Ryan will be sad.

https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/...-betty-whites-comments-about-his-crush-on-her

She lived a full life.

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But that she lived a very long life.

She chose death rather than a life without Legos

Thank you for being a friend.

She was so good in the Mary Tyler Moore as Sue Anne Nivens, the "nice" lady with claws. My favorite line was the night a woman gave birth in Mary's bedroom and Sue Anne sweetly observed that it was probably the most exciting thing that ever happened there. Great line, perfectly delivered. She was every bit as good on Password. She put nervous contestants at ease and if you were lucky enough to draw her as a partner, you had a chance to make some money. Smart, beautiful, witty...what a package!

God speed and God bless.

She wasn't afraid to take some heat.

Damn....

I was just thinking a day or so ago she was going to be 100 in January and that it would of sucked if she didn't make it. She was on TV longer than anyone, she was around before TV.

Rue absolutely loses her shit at the end.

Her husband Allen Ludden used to introduce her as his wife who worked in the age of silent television...

ETA: She was 51 that year.

When TV came out, there were no TV stores, so they displayed one at an auto dealership, and she was a model being photographed to display on the TV cuz there were no shows yet.
She was on TV before shows!

Almost the whole cast of the MTM show has bought the farm.

Three this year alone. Four died this year, I forgot about Cloris Leachman dying this year. There were eight actors on MTM who got "Starring" credit. Ted Knight was the first to die, in 1986 (Fun fact: His character was based on a well-known LA tv reporter who, while he was laying in the parking lot, after being shot, of the TV station waiting for the ambulance to arrive, asked people, "Does my hair look okay?"), the next one to go was MTM in 2017, then it was Georgia and Valerie in 2019.

I think the only ones left are the bit players.

If I get banned from FB, this is why:

Who was that?

I don't remember. Sometime in the early to mid-90s I can remember a piece in Harper's magazine about the guy and him being shot. It was from that I learned that he was the inspiration for Ted Knight's character.

I was just curious. I hadn't heard about anything like that and Google yielded nothing. I was wondering who it might've been.

I think that maybe the piece was published because the guy had died, but I don't remember. Best I can do is say that it was published between 1990 and 1996, so that's a maximum of 72 issues one would have to search, and I'd say that it was most likely published between 1990 and 1993, so that cuts it down to about 36 issues. Might even be able to roll it back to between 1990 and 1992. I can remember where I was living when I was a subscriber to Harper's but not the exact dates. I might be able to bug some friends of mine who I moved in with around that time to be able to narrow it down even more. But yeah, between 1990 and January of '94 would be your best bet to find the source.

I believe it was Jerry Dunphy longtime anchor at KCBS in Los Angeles. A TV critic said something to the effect that if you sent Dunphy to do a man in the street interview he'd step into an open manhole.