Earlier this year I wrote about the passing of one of my favorite women on tv, unfortunately as I logged on to check my email tonight - I saw that my favorite tv actress has died. Bea Arthur was my favorite Golden Girl. I loved her on Maude, which I watched in reruns on tv land a few years back (but that I sort of remembered from when I was little - I remember my mom watching it). I think her characters have always been a role model for what I think of as funny - much more so than Lucy or the more popular funny women of television.

It makes me sad that a lot of my role models from when I was little are dying. At least Betty and Rue are still okay.