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DaffyKD

07-22-2008 02:01 PM

Estelle Getty, May She Rest in Peace

Estelle Getty, known as Sophia on Golden Girls will no longer be threatened with a trip back to Shady Pines.

May she rest in peace.

DaffyKD

33girl

07-22-2008 02:02 PM

Picture it: Sicily, 1918.

RIP Estelle!

PeppyGPhiB

07-22-2008 02:26 PM

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...lden-Girls.gif

PeppyGPhiB

07-22-2008 02:33 PM

Dang, the Golden Girls are getting up there...

Bea and Betty are 86
Rue is 74

...and Stan died in 1996

AGDee

07-22-2008 02:46 PM

She was great on the show. RIP.

knight_shadow

07-22-2008 02:47 PM

RIP :(

tinydancer

07-22-2008 02:58 PM

She was perfect for the role of Sophia. RIP

NinjaPoodle

07-22-2008 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 1684719)

Picture it: Sicily, 1918.

RIP Estelle!

RIP

ForeverRoses

07-22-2008 03:42 PM

She was my favorite Golden Girl. RIP

the article I saw said the had "dementia" is that the same thing as Alzheimer's?

txdiva

07-22-2008 03:50 PM

She was my favorite, too. :(

RIP Estelle!!!

SydneyK

07-22-2008 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses (Post 1684770)

She was my favorite Golden Girl. RIP

the article I saw said the had "dementia" is that the same thing as Alzheimer's?

She was my favorite, too. :(

Alzheimer's is a cause of dementia. There are certainly others, but Alzheimer's seems to be the most widely known.

Unregistered-

07-22-2008 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB (Post 1684729)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...lden-Girls.gif

She and Rue McLanahan did an autograph signing here when I was in grade school and I was able to meet her then. I remember being surprised and shocked because she didn't look as "old" as she did on GG.

OleMissGlitter

07-22-2008 04:47 PM

How sad. I use to watch the Golden Girls with my great grandmother when I was growing up...good times...RIP

TrueBlueKappa

07-22-2008 04:48 PM

Aww, I love Sophia and the rest of the Golden Girls!
RIP!

DSTCHAOS

07-22-2008 04:55 PM

R.I.P. :(

jitterbug13

07-22-2008 05:23 PM

When I saw this thread, I thought of one of Sophia's other favorite sayings:

"May he rest in peace until I get there!"

RIP, Estelle. :(

unspokenone25

07-22-2008 05:38 PM

Thank you for being a friend, Estelle. :( RIP

LucyKKG

07-22-2008 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SydneyK (Post 1684780)

Alzheimer's is a cause of dementia. There are certainly others, but Alzheimer's seems to be the most widely known.

As I understand it, (basically) dementia makes you confused and Alzheimer's makes you forget stuff. My grandma has both.

JennRN

07-22-2008 06:29 PM

Let's raise a cheesecake in honor of Estelle!!

R.I.P

Honeykiss1974

07-22-2008 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JennRN (Post 1684884)

Let's raise a cheesecake in honor of Estelle!!

R.I.P

I think I will have a slice tonight in her honor. I became addicted to GG in college. It came on right after Young & The Restless but before Jerry Springer (hey, I went to college in the 90's so this was my routine after class).

I'm sure Lifetime will be running a marathon this weekend.

RIP and God bless Estelle. :(

TrojanWoman

07-22-2008 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LucyKKG (Post 1684858)

As I understand it, (basically) dementia makes you confused and Alzheimer's makes you forget stuff. My grandma has both.

Just to clear it up, Alzheimer's is a form of dementia.

RIP to my favorite Golden Girl.

Munchkin03

07-22-2008 07:59 PM

I am so sad! I LOVED GG...and Sophia was my favorite. :( Gonna rent it this weekend and watch...

"May your marinara never stick to your pasta!"

Estelle Getty did not have Alzheimers, but another form of dementia that was misdiagnosed as Parkinsons as well as Alzheimers. Apparently someone else of moderate fame died of it this week as well.

Strive

07-22-2008 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JennRN (Post 1684884)

Let's raise a cheesecake in honor of Estelle!!

R.I.P

She was my favorite Golden Girl.

tld221

07-22-2008 08:57 PM

umm what?

mama noooooooooooooooo ::wails::

Bob is next. I can feel it. those are two people who arent supposed to go.

BetteDavisEyes

07-22-2008 09:24 PM

:(

I love the show and I loved her. She will be missed.

In her honor, here are some of my favorite Sophia quotes:

Sophia: "Excuse me Rose, but I haven't had sex in fifteen years and its starting to get on my nerves."

Dorothy: "Hi, ma. Where are you going?"
Sophia: "To the boardwalk. I like to watch the old guys rearrange themselves when they come out of the water."

Blanche: "I treat my body like a temple."
Sophia: "Yeah, open to everyone, day or night."

Sophia: "I hate communism."
Dorothy: "Of course you hate communism, Ma it's because you were raised a fascist."

Sophia: "You're Blanche's daughter, the model?"
Rebecca: "That's right."
Sophia: "What did she model - car covers?"

Rose: "I just found out I'm the most boring on Earth."
Sophia: "Did something happen to Regis Philbin?"

Blanche: "Oh girls... I'm just in ecstasy. My body is tingling all over. You will never guess what just happened."
Sophia: "We know what happened. Let us just guess what part of the Middle East he's from."

Blanche: "I have writer's block. It's the worst feeling in the world."
Sophia: "Try ten days without a bowel movement sometime."

Sophia: "I hate Jell-O. If God wanted peaches suspended in midair, he would have filled them with helium."

WVU alpha phi

07-22-2008 09:42 PM

Love the Golden Girls and Sophia was great. Wasn't she the youngest of the 4 too?

jitterbug13

07-22-2008 11:36 PM

Rue McClanannan (sp) is the youngest. She's in her early-mid 70s. Estelle was actually younger than Bea Arthur and Betty White.

Lifetime is doing a tribute to her with GG episodes Friday from Noon to 5 p.m. You can go on their website and vote on five episodes. The winning one will be the final episode shown during the marathon.

http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/show...-estelle-getty

Senusret I

07-22-2008 11:54 PM

I voted for "Old Friends!"

RBL	07-23-2008 09:00 AM

RIP

CrimsonTide4

07-23-2008 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jitterbug13 (Post 1685064)

Why can't they do the marathon when working people without DVRs/TiVo are home to watch it?:mad:

jitterbug13

07-23-2008 04:20 PM

I guess since they already show it at 4 p.m., it sort of makes sense. I would normally be home during that time since I work on Fridays, but I'll probably be just arriving in Orlando when it's on.

Munchkin03

07-24-2008 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tld221 (Post 1684983)

Bob is next. I can feel it. those are two people who arent supposed to go.

Bob?

icelandelf

07-24-2008 01:42 AM

RIP :(

She was my favorite Golden Girl

Senusret I

07-24-2008 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Munchkin03 (Post 1685652)

Bob?

Barker?

christiangirl

07-24-2008 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by icelandelf (Post 1685676)

She was my favorite Golden Girl

Ditto. :(

Jill1228

07-24-2008 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB (Post 1684729)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...lden-Girls.gif

My sentiments exactly! I loved her. She used to have me ROFL
RIP Estelle :(

Unregistered-

07-28-2008 04:47 PM

Bea, Rue, and Betty were no-shows at Estelle's funeral :(

Senusret I

07-28-2008 04:51 PM

I wonder if they were invited?

Unregistered-

07-28-2008 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1687510)

I wonder if they were invited?

Found this while digging:

Quote:

TV's Inside Edition caught up with Estelle Getty's son, Carl, to get
to the bottom of why the living Golden Girls skipped out on her
funeral.

Carl told the show, "They would certainly have been welcome. I don't
know why they wouldn't be attending mom's funeral. Maybe it's a
painful thing…As for the rest of them you're going to have to ask them
how they felt about it and why they did or didn't come."

Inside Edition took Carl's advice and reached out to the ladies.

Bea "Dorothy" Arthur, told the show she's been grieving for years over
Getty's long decline due to dementia, and could not deal with the
emotion of a funeral: "She's been out of it so many years, not
recognizing anyone. It's a Godsend. She's at peace."

Rue "Blanche" McClanahan, said that she couldn't attend the funeral
because she recently had surgery: "I'd like them to know that I didn't
[attend the funeral] because I can't fly right now with knee surgery.
I don't know why Betty and Bea didn't go, maybe because they, too,
have said their goodbyes to her when she was alive."

The show did not speak with Betty White, but they learned that she
sent a bouquet of flowers with a card that read, "Love, Betty White."
In quotes she added the name of her character on the show, "Rose."

And there you have it.

Estelle's son seems to have perceived the absences as a snub, though.
Says Carl: "If it was someone I'd been tight with like that and worked
with all those years I'd have been there."

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.g...01718?lnk=raot

Senusret I

07-28-2008 05:09 PM

Awww.....it's sad that he saw it as a snub. I hope he comes to realize that people grieve differently. Moreover, although funerals are to comfort the living, maybe they just weren't very close to the rest of her family like that.

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