Television actress Rue McClanahan's publicist said she is doing "great" after undergoing heart bypass surgery in New York.

Caption: *file photo* Kelly Osbourne's bouffant hair do makes her look more like one of The Golden Girls than a Gossip Girl USA .... Former GOLDEN GIRLS star RUE MCCLANAHAN has cancelled an event in her honour next week after she was hospitalised suffering from a cardiac illness.

Rue McClanahan, who played sexy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls," was recovering Thursday from heart bypass surgery at a New York City hospital.

Rue McClanahan, 75, is "doing great" after a bypass surgery performed yesterday in New York, according to her rep, Barbara Lawrence.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 5:41 pm US/Pacific 1 of 4 Actress Rue McClanahan attends the 50th Annual Drama Desk Awards at Laguardia Concert Hall on May 22, 2005 in New York City.

Rue McClanahan, who played sexy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls," was recovering Thursday from heart bypass surgery at a New York City hospital.

Not only is our new 4 p.m. lifestyle show We Are Austin Live finally coming together, but the new schedule allows me to get back into the community, especially charities that are near and dear to me.

The ladies of "Sex & the City" have often been compared to "The Golden Girls" -- but yesterday in NYC, Rue McClanahan told us the Cosmo swilling quartet doesn't hold a candle to Blanche Devereaux's crew.

Let's hear it for the woman who was Sue Ann Nivens and Rose Nylund. She will collect the award in January, when TBS and TNT will present the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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

Golden, indeed: Heavyweights from the stage and TV gathered at Broadway's Majestic Theatre Monday to pay tribute to the late Beatrice Arthur, mixing tears with loud laughs - and ribald recollections that would have been bleeped had the 21 2 ceremony been broadcast on TV.

They remembered with love and a lot of laughter the star of television's "Maude" and "The Golden Girls," a woman who also appeared in such hit Broadway musicals as "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Mame." Memories of Bea Arthur filled Broadway's Majestic Theatre Monday as friends, family and co-stars recalled the tall, tart, baritone-voiced actress who ...

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.

There is an epic debate currently circulating through the Times-Herald editorial department.

There were many good sitcoms and prime time soaps in the 80's. We had shows like Falcon Crest and the Colbys full of beautiful rich people, while Cagney and Lacey busted the bad guys.

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.

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

Q: I've been enjoying reruns of "The Golden Girls." Can you tell me who sings the theme song, "Thank You for Being a Friend"? Is it Rue McClanahan? - Mary Fix, Grand Island A: Cynthia Fee is the name of the artist who recorded the sitcom's version of the tune, which earlier had been a hit for its composer, Andrew Gold.

Playhouse on the Green is proud to present SISTER ROBERT ANNE'S CABARET CLASS, a "One-Nun-sense Musical Event" by "Nunsense" composer Dan Goggin , for 4 regular performances and one special Gala evening from Friday, July 10 through Saturday, July 17, 2009.

Former Golden Girl and Broadway veteran Rue McClanahan is following in the footsteps of her late co-star Bea Arthur: She has a one-woman show in the works, and she's eyeing the Great White Way, according to the Chicago Tribune .