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Rue McClanahan is recovering from a heart bypass she underwent on Tuesday. Rue McClanahan went through heart surgery this past week, according to Reuters .

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is working to have the 1988 Emmy won by Estelle Getty taken off Ebay.

The Golden Girls was a 1980's sitcom about a group of older women who live together during the "golden years" of life.

Original "Golden Girls" Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty.

The 2005 biopic "Karol: The Man Who Became Pope" is the story of the Polish boy, Karol Wojtyla, whose lifelong devotion to humanity and his church led him to be selected as pope and become John Paul II.

Before "Sex in the City," there was " The Golden Girls ," another show about four man-crazy single women who lived in a city and talked an awful lot about sex.

In 1969, Neil Young joined Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time at a concert at the Fillmore East in New York.

In the 1980s, the TV sitcom, "The Golden Girls," became very popular. One of the reasons was because it featured four comical senior-aged women played by Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty and Bea Arthur who single-handedly managed to redefine the roles of senior women in our society.

Attending an auction in Hollywood is only slightly different from loitering in front of Grauman's Chinese.

We just checked in with Bonhams to find out how the sale of some historic showbiz awards fared at its auction June 14.

Some classic Hollywood memorabilia is up for sale. One sure to be fan favorite is the handbag used by actress Estelle Getty while she played the role of Sophia Petrillo on "The Golden Girls." The character was rarely seen without it.

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Bea Arthur and with Golden Girls Rue McClanahan, Betty White and Estelle Getty .

Estelle Getty, whose acting career bloomed late in life with her Emmy-winning performance as Sophia Petrillo, the wisecracking mother of Bea Arthur's character on the popular NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls," died Tuesday.

Bea Arthur, who has died aged 86, was the leader of the band in The Golden Girls, the US comedy series which networked in the US from 1985 to 1992 and achieved great success in Britain during the halcyon days of Channel 4. As Dorothy Zbornak she was the dominating boss among the four ladies of indeterminate middle to old age living together in ...

Bea Arthur was best known for her role in The Golden Girls. The death of popular actress Bea Arthur, who starred in the US television sitcom The Golden Girls, has been reported in Los Angeles.

They say that a parenta s worst fear is surviving their child, and in my mind Estelle Getty, best known as Sophia on "The Golden Girls" left this world last summer satisfied that her longtime co-star Bea Arthur would be entertaining us for years to come.

This 1975 file photo shows actress Bea Arthur at an unknown location. Family spokesman Dan Watt says the 86-year-old Arthur died at home early Saturday, April 25, 2009.

On June 14, Bonhams & Butterfield will auction off part of the estate of Estelle Getty , who died last July just three days before her 85th birthday.

Bea Arthur, second from left, smiles with "Golden Girls" co-stars, from left, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan and Betty White.