― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 5 July 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
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 agoody-two-shoes, though that hardly seems like enoughto create a feud over.
But the hatred is real. At one point Bea allegedly went intoBetty'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!
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 5 July 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
I really, really didn't need to know this.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 July 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 6 July 2003 01:10 (twenty years ago) link
― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 6 July 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 6 July 2003 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 6 July 2003 04:34 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 6 July 2003 05:44 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link
:)
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:32 (twenty years ago) link
― estela (estela), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:52 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― j0e (j0e), Sunday, 6 July 2003 10:24 (twenty years ago) link
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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)
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!"
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, Kenan, but Betty is HAWT.
― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
You may have been confusing Betty with one of the names in Brecht & Weill's 'Mack The Knife':
Pearly White.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 7 July 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
It's a fine and good thing, it is.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
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")
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4gNHvrkk/SvHhspYeQUI/AAAAAAAAI0Y/1LuTnJskC_A/s1600-h/Because.jpg
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
shit....
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of get what K meant, which I think worries me.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 April 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2929260387_72d71d5e6b.jpg
― Derelict, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
FWIW, Bea Arthur nude 'shops outnumber Betty 'shops by about 5:1.
http://laist.com/attachments/tony/ggundies.jpg
― Derelict, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Betty White gets a PBS special.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Man, is that feud still happening? When will they let it go?
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
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???
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link