can anyone give me details about the feud b/w bea arthur and betty white

Q: Is there really a rivalry between Betty White and Bea Arthur?

Answer: Not exactly. Bea just never really appealed to Betty. There has never been a such thing as an all out 'feud' between the two.

from e! online gossip q&a:

From beckhansen: Okay, I know your editor's gonna hate me for asking this, but I read your reply from several weeks back about Bea Arthur and Betty White. Any more news on this "Golden" feud?

Yes, last night I had dinner with the best friend of one of the Golden Girls--don't tell my short, gruff boss Lew--and even though I was sworn to secrecy, I can tell you that the animosity between Betty and Bea was not the only animosity on the set, and that was due partly to Betty being such a Goody Two-shoes.

from alt.gossip.celebrities:

Subject: Re: Betty White vs. Bea Arthur?
Date: 1999/08/23

The master of all I see recently wrote:

>Okay. I just read a post that Betty White and Bea Arthur can't stand each
>other. This is news to me. Does anyone have any information on this alleged
>feud? How did it start, and have either of them ever said anything publicly
>about the other?

All I've heard was that Betty is accused of being a
goody-two-shoes, though that hardly seems like enough
to create a feud over.

But the hatred is real. At one point Bea allegedly went into
Betty's dressing room---and shat in the middle of her floor.

response:
I read the same story, in Billy Master's gossip column which was carried in several gay magazines before he went online (he's the Filth2go guy).

someone else said that Ted Casablanca from E! online also hinted at this story.

from A&U Magazine:

[Asked her feelings on Betty White] Bea leans forward, eyes me directly, smiles wide, which I think is going to break into a laugh, and so I begin to laugh. Instead, her eyes moisten, she turns her body completely away from me, then puts her hand up and with a quiver in her voice says, "Next." She is stricken momentarily with emotion. I pause."

hope this helps, AE!

Hometown: St. Olaf, Minnesota. St. Olaf is a small, rural, farming town with Scandananavian origins where cows, pigs and chickens rule (literally--a horse was once accidenally elected town water commissioner for a brief period of time). Everything in St. Olaf is backwards from what one would normally expect. For example, a circus starring herring (coincidentally, most traditional St. Olafian dishes revolve around herring).
Now Resides in: Miami, Florida in a one-story contemporary home shared by three other women, Blanche Devereaux (the owner of the house), the resident man-trap (or is that tramp?), Dorothy Zborkak, a tall, divorced, substitute teacher, and Dorothy's quick-witted, Sicilian, 80-plus-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo.

Occupation: Grief Counselor. Rose has also worked for television consumer protection reporter, Enrique Maas, by testing out products. Come to think of it, she has also worked as a production assistant (?) for a local Miami television show. Is it just me, or is anyone else confused by when Rose does what job? There doesn't seem to be any defining start or finish to any of them.

Marital Status: Widowed. Her beloved husband, Charile, had a heart attack and died while he and Rose were making love (coincidentally, the same thing happens in episode #15, "In a Bed of Rose's"). Throughout most of the show's seven-year run, Rose had a steady relationship with a somewhat nerdy university professor (no kidding), Miles.

Rose Is Best Known for: Her long, drawn-out St. Olaf stories (or as Dorothy refers to them--"Damn St.Olaf Stories"), which almost always begin with "Back in St. Olaf..." and never fail to garner sighs, rolling eyes, and here-we-go-agains from her fellow housemates. Most stories involve herring, cows, pigs, chickens and/or butter churns.

I really, really didn't need to know this.

Rufus Wainwright tells about meeting Bea Arthur, and telling her that in one of his songs, he fantasized about her being his gramma. Her response: "I'm not your fucking grandmother." And walk away.

:)

Also Bea is quoted as saying of her co-stars "X was fabulous, Y was divine and Z was a complete fucking cunt".

Z was Betty.

I love Bea.

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[EVERYTHING IS DRAWN IN A SCRATCHY WHITE-ON-BLACK STYLE. BETTY WHITE IS COOKING POTATOES, AND IS A GIANT ANTHROPOMORPHIC HEN. BETTY TAKES ONE POTATO AND CRACKS IT OPEN LIKE AN EGG. CLOSE UP OF WEEPING FACES SLIDING OUT OF IT INTO A FRYING PAN. CUT TO BEA ARTHUR COMING THROUGH THE KITCHEN DOOR. SHE IS BALD AND HOLDS A SMALL COCKROACH-MAN IN HER HANDS, WHICH IS GAGGED AND IS TRYING TO BREATHE]

BEA: Oh my hen wife, will you ever buy me creamed rice?
BETTY: Creamed rice is a tool of Western propaganda. Shut up and eat your boiled potato.
BEA: Gahhhhhhhhhhh!

[CUT TO BEA'S HEAD ROLLING OFF HER NECK AND THUMPING ON THE FLOOR. BETTY SCREAMS. JUMP CUT TO BETTY IDLY CLUCKING A HAPPY SONG AS SHE WASHES PLATES. BEA HAS HER HEAD BACK ON, AND IS SQUEEZING THE COCKRAOCH-MAN. FADE OUT, AND BACK INTO SUBTITLE: "WHY MUST WE ALL DIE?"]

(© 1972 StateFilm Animation Studio)

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But anyway. I remember a spoof of the show on Naked Video back in around about 1989 which amused me at the time - Helen Lederer was the cranky grandmother one, some bloke playted Bea Arthur. The fact that it was a bloke playing Bea was the whole point of the sketch, and everyone tried to get him to own up to the fact he was a man. Eventually after they'd all given up, Helen Lederer casually goes "So, how high can you pee against a wall?" "Oh, about 6 foot on a good day... SHIT!"

Yeah, Kenan, but Betty is HAWT.

You may have been confusing Betty with one of the names in Brecht & Weill's 'Mack The Knife':

Pearly White.

It's a fine and good thing, it is.

Betty White had a cameo in The Simpsons not so long ago that was amusing ("if you're watching this channel without donating you're nothing but thieves")

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4gNHvrkk/SvHhspYeQUI/AAAAAAAAI0Y/1LuTnJskC_A/s1600-h/Because.jpg

shit....

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4gNHvrkk/SvHhspYeQUI/AAAAAAAAI0Y/1LuTnJskC_A/s1600-h/Because.jpg

See, Betty White wouldn't think it is at all funny that you don't have a clitoris and you shit when you come. Bea Arthur would appreciate it, though.

Dear lord what does this mean?

A friend of mine made me watch "Lake Placid" last week because, in it, Betty White feeds cattle to a giant CGI alligator. This is about 0.4% of the film time.

I kind of get what K meant, which I think worries me.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.html

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2929260387_72d71d5e6b.jpg

FWIW, Bea Arthur nude 'shops outnumber Betty 'shops by about 5:1.

http://laist.com/attachments/tony/ggundies.jpg

Betty White gets a PBS special.

Man, is that feud still happening? When will they let it go?

97 today!
from wikipedia: After the war, White made rounds to movie studios looking for work, but was always turned down because she was "unphotogenic".

wtf???