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RIP Blanche.......


Betty White is the only Golden Girl that is still with us

Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, 76, has died.

"She passed away at 1 a.m. this morning," her manager, Barbara Lawrence, tells PEOPLE. She had a massive stroke."

McClanahan, who played Blanche Deveraux on the still-popular '80s sitcom Golden Girls, had suffered a minor stroke earlier this year while recovering from bypass surgery. Lawrence added that at the time of her death Thursday, McClanahan “had her family with her. She went in peace.”

Still in syndication, Golden Girls ran on NBC from 1985 to 1992. Only last year, McClanahan's costar, Beatrice Arthur, died from cancer. Estelle Getty died in 2008. Surviving star Betty White is currently enjoying a remarkable resurgence in her career, having recently hosted Saturday Night Live.

Born in Healdton, Okla., Rue lived in six towns by the time she was 8. (Her father was a road builder who moved from one project to another.) She found solace in acting ("the only thing I ever wanted to do") and after four years at the University of Tulsa moved to New York, where she worked as a part-time file clerk while trying to find jobs in the theater.

Oh geez ...I was just watching GG the other night thinking, wow only two left ... and then there was one ...
I loved Blanche, just loved her ...Rue did good!!

Oh wow.

I really liked her - not just from GG, either - she was a funny lady, a real talent and a very very classy lady.

RIP, Rue.

RIP Rue.

RIP
Rue

The Golden Girls is still one of my favourite shows and I adored all of the actresses on the show. It's sad that three are gone now and only one is left. It reminds me of the episode where they pledged to stay together no matter what, even if they went into a home, but they wondered what would happen when only one was left. Very sad!

It goes in threes. I wonder who the next two are going to be??

KDOUBLEU wrote:It goes in threes. I wonder who the next two are going to be??

Celebrities Don't Really Die in Threes ... Do They?

http://www.popeater.com/2010/06/01/cele ... webmaildl2

The rule of three can be traced back to Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all died in a plane crash in an Iowa cornfield. The theory gained a place in creepy celebrity lore at the end of 1970 and the beginning of 1971, when iconic rockers Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died in relatively close succession. That one really rattled people, as all three died at age 27.

Since then, the so-called rule of three has provided a tidy way for folks to try to make sense of celebrity deaths.

Michigan Girl wrote:

KDOUBLEU wrote:It goes in threes. I wonder who the next two are going to be??

Celebrities Don't Really Die in Threes ... Do They?

http://www.popeater.com/2010/06/01/cele ... webmaildl2

[i]The rule of three can be traced back to Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all died in a plane crash in an Iowa cornfield. The theory gained a place in creepy celebrity lore at the end of 1970 and the beginning of 1971, when iconic rockers Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died in relatively close succession. That one really rattled people, as all three died at age 27.

That's just

Kind of like how Estelle Getty passed in 2008... Bea Arthur passed in 2009... Rue in 2010...

I won't finish that... still... ^^ very weird.