Awww, Jesus. Is it going to be another one of those years, where a lot of the people who carved out the pop-culture landscape wind up leaving us?
It looks like it. Rue McClanahan, one of television’s royalty, has laid her crown down and passed at age 76. She died Thursday at 1 a.m. in New York-Presbyterian hospital of a brain hemorrhage. She’s most well remembered from the sitcom series that broke new ground – The Golden Girls – which showed a group of aging, eccentric women living lives and having fun in Miami. It differed drastically from other sitcoms of the time that would be more at home on NBC in the 90’s, groups of young friends, living in big cities, trying to figure life out. The Golden Girls became a cult hit, and iconic in the gay community. She won an Emmy for the role of Blanche in 1987. The show lasted from 1985-1992.
Before her big break, McClanahan worked off-Broadway before she got the part of the best friend on “Maude,” another ground-breaking sitcom.
With McClanahan’s death, the only surviving Golden Girl is Betty White, who was just prominently featured on Saturday Night Live. And internet campaigns to get on Saturday Night Live.
But it’s going to be one of those years.
Comments
James
June 3rd, 2010 - 5:57:31 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Dang it. Thank God, Betty is still with us, and seems to be going strong!
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edgar
June 3rd, 2010 - 7:48:39 PM
total cougar queen back in the day
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