Bea Arthur steps through the door of her hotel suite into a sitting room, a tall, frail-looking figure, dressed in black. Her white hair is perfectly coiffed, the makeup on her taut, thin face ...

The Golden Girls turned into fool’s gold, with producers pulling the plug because of a nasty feud between two of the biggest ...

Bea Arthur passed away today of cancer. It’s strange when a celebrity dies and it truly saddens you to a degree that it’s as if you knew them.

Arthur “used to call me at home and say, ‘I just ran into that c--- at the grocery store. I’m gonna write her a letter,’ and I said, ‘Bea, just get over it for crying out loud.

Artist John Currin’s Bea Arthur Naked was snapped up by an anonymous buyer for $1.9 million at Christie’s auction house in New York. The oil painting was expected to fetch as much as $2.5 million.

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