‘The Golden Girls’ joked about ‘giving the Palestinians Greenland’ — 4 decades before Trump’s gambits
“With the proper clothes, they’ll be fine,” Betty White’s character joked on the episode “Empty Nests"
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The Schmooze WATCH: Lena Dunham And ‘Girls’ Cast Spoof ‘Golden Girls’
“Girls” is wrapping up its final season, and for all of you mourning the loss of Hannah, Jessa, Marnie and Shoshanna, boy, do we have a treat for you. The cast slipped back into their characters during a reunion on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Wednesday night, in a sketch that explores where their characters end up…
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The Schmooze Coming Soon: Israeli ‘Golden Girls’
Southern Florida is so famously full of Jewish retirees that it often seemed strange that there weren’t any among the main characters on TV’s “The Golden Girls.” But you can bet there will be at least a couple of Jewish retirees on the new Israeli version of the show, which is apparently so promising that…
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Life The Jewish Soul of ‘The Golden Girls’
Maude is gone and Dorothy Zbornak is dead. Bea Arthur, who played those brassy, gutsy characters on the sitcoms “Maude” and “The Golden Girls,” died of cancer over the weekend at her home in Los Angeles. I was a little too young to appreciate “Maude” when it was broadcast in the mid-1970s, but confess a…
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Life Estelle Getty, RIP
Estelle Getty of “Golden Girls” is no longer with us. Here’s a tribute from a fan: From her New York Times obit: Long before “Golden Girls” Ms. Getty had been portraying maternal types of all sorts on the stage. “I am the mother,” she declared in her opening line in “Torch Song Trilogy,” Harvey Fierstein’s…
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