#from Maude to Dorothy

[kindheart525]

I’ve accidentally made a Smiling Friends next gen lol

What started out as a joke “what-if” character got me attached, so now meet Dorothy “Dottie” Dompler! The daughter of Charlie and Zoey, she was conceived by accident, but Charlie’s Catholic values made him feel obligated to step up and do his best as a father. Much like her dad, Dottie doesn’t smile a whole lot…if ever. She’s not cynical or annoyed or anything unlike Charlie or Allan, that’s just what her face looks like. She’s perfectly content with her life and just doesn’t feel the need to be super emotive about it. Think of Maud Pie from MLP if you’re familiar with that. Her dad also tends to talk to her like an adult so she grew up not really caring for that “goo goo ga ga” little kid stuff.

Charlie still works with the Smiling Friends so Dottie has a big circle of people to care for her! Charlie, Zoey, Pim, Marge, Glep, and Mr. Boss too as a fellow father himself (Allan doesn’t like children /hj). Expect doodles of some of these interactions soon! Also expect a Marge x Glep horde and some rowdy little Pimling babies too. I’m getting carried away with this lmao

[vintagetvstars]

Bea Arthur Vs. Lily Tomlin

Propaganda

Bea Arthur - (Golden Girls, Maude) - Okay okay where do I even start!! Bea Arthur is incredibly attractive. She has a SUPER deep voice (stunning), a sort of regal, statuesque way of moving and talking, and she can kill you with a single piercing look. Like seriously. Her Looks have become a thing in both shows she plays a lead character in. Did I mention: TWO characters were *written for her*!! When she did Maude in 1972, she'd appeared on All in the Family as a side character and the people there loved her so much they went "this woman needs her own TV show". SO THEY WROTE IT. And made 6 seasons of it. That's how good she is. When the pilot for The Golden Girls was written, creator Susan Harris described the part that Bea would end up playing as a "Bea Arthur type" before they'd even cast her in the role. She was Jewish, she served as a typist and truck driver in the marines during WWII, she had a whole career off and on Broadway behind her by the time she started her career in television, and she was an ally to the gay community — there's even a shelter for homeless queer youth named after her. And did I mention her voice?? Because she can sing too!

Lily Tomlin - (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, Murphy Brown) - “Lily Tomlin is, I believe, a great artist. I find that her work succeeds on every level: She is a great actress; she is a brilliant comedienne; she is a coruscating commentator on our times and on her place in the world; she is frighteningly clear in her ability to see and to share what entered her mind and her heart; she is amazingly generous with her material. The final point is one that you will not understand until you begin to create your own work, and you will know the brutal difference between those who give a great deal and those who give according to fashion and whim. Trust me when I tell you this is a brutal point.” — Tennessee Williams

Master Poll List of the Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket

Additional propaganda below the cut

Bea Arthur:

She was just so funny and compelling onscreen. She had great timing. And she was beautiful no matter what age and she was an incredibly LGBT+ ally.

I think it's a very common experience to start watching The Golden Girls and immediately develop a crush on Dorothy Zbornak - and it's not a coincidence. Between her statuesque figure, her regal poise, her sharp wit and her wonderful, deep voice, Bea Arthur brings so much to the table that it's impossible not to be head-over-heels in love with her from the very first moment she appears on screen. Career-wise, she's a legend of the small screen; she received the third most Emmy nominations for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (an incredible 9!). Her guest appearance as Maude in All in the Family impressed both the public and the executives so much that they made a spin-off series *especially for her*. She led Maude - the sitcom - for six incredible seasons to critical and public acclaim, and this would already be enough to nominate her among the greats, but then - as the true queen she was - she went on to star into *another* legendary show, The Golden Girls, as *another* legendary character, Dorothy, and won another Emmy (as well as several nominations) for it, just because she could. As for her private life, she was known as a private, introverted person, who loved the simple things in life; all her fellow TV stars (including Angela Lansbury, who was a dear friend of hers) recall her as a kind, decent person and a wonderful professional, with impeccable work ethic and truly immaculate comedic timing. We do not support the military complex here, but we do support girlbosses winning, so let me just mention that she was one of the first women (ever!) to join the US marines; she was also a licensed medical technician. All in all - a legendary lady who definitely deserves your vote!

how many people can dress up as the Statue of Liberty and look this good?

have you ever seen a woman so beautiful you started crying

MOTHER

soft butch queen. Who else could rock a papillon like that?!?

1982 Bea Arthur - Fifty Percent.avi

Beatrice Arthur, Down in the Depths, 1980 TV

Lily Tomlin:

She's beautiful and hilarious! Her smile is so bright! photo of her and her partner Jane Wagner:

[mzannthropy]

Anne of the Island Book Club Chapter 36

Another good one! And a proof that LMM would have made an excellent sitcom writer.

Anne had a short sketch published! So glad for her that she didn't completely give up on her writing ambitions, even if it is just a side hustle.

Phil suggesting they should go to town and get drunk, lol, you wouldn't expect this from LMM.

Priscilla remarking that having an author live with them is a great responsibility--isn't her aunt a famous writer? Mrs Morgan? The one who came to visit in AOA? It was her aunt, wasn't it? Or some relation. Anne mentioning Averil's Atonement means she discussed that story at Patty's Place and I would like to know what they all thought of it. I think they'd be more like Gilbert, supportive. I wonder if Aunt Jamesina's remark is something LMM heard herself?

I guess I'm like Christine, bc my walk is not graceful. I'm clumsy, so what?

Well, Roy had to introduce Anne to his family at some point. They've been seeing each other for a year now and it's a sign he is serious about her. It's natural of Anne to feel daunted, as the Gardners are an old and rich family, and she has experienced prejudice about her origin, even in Avonlea.

Stella always vowed she never could write anything unless she threw each sheet down as she completed it.

This is what I wanted from this book. Chaotic scholar energy! Anne playing with cats, Priscilla baking, a cosy home-like atmosphere. Then, of course, there's a knock on the door and everyone loses their heads. The way LMM describes it is so funny.

Anne scrambled to her feet somehow, emptying two indignant cats out of her lap as she did so

They're not gonna forgive you that easily for this, you know.

And Priscilla hiding her cake under a cushion! You know how it's going to go.

Rusty and Joseph, left to themselves, began a game of chase, and sprang madly into Mrs. Gardner’s silken lap and out of it in their wild career. Mrs. Gardner lifted her lorgnette and gazed after their flying forms as if she had never seen cats before, and Anne, choking back slightly nervous laughter, apologized as best she could.

Pure comedy. Please, somebody make a film so that we can have this scene.

Inconsequently she remembered that Mrs. John Blythe was so fond of cats that she kept as many as her husband would allow.

Oh really, did she? Did she?

You'll probably never going to like every single one of your in-laws (heck, you probably don't even like every single member of you own family/extended family), so the Gardners seem quite standard. I like the name Aline better than Dorothy, though, so I wish they were swapped. But at least Aline, too, likes china dogs. Then she had to go sit on the cake, of course, so I guess she is not winning any of the book club members' hearts.

"What glorious times you girls must have here! Won’t you let me come often and have a share in them?"

Dorothy speaks for all of us.

“‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are it might have been,’” quoted Priscilla tragically, lifting the cushion.

The lines are from a poem titled Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier. Another writer also wrote a parody of it, for which I don't blame him bc it is indeed ridiculous.

“I fancy it was Roy’s mistake,” said Phil. “That boy isn’t really responsible for what he says when he talks to Anne."

We never learn whose mistake it was, so I take it that Phil's explanation is the truth. Misunderstandings and mistakes are frequent occurrences in LMM's works. Anne's adoption by the Cuthberts, the doctor in Blue Castle sending the wrong letter to Valancy, then there's a Christmas short story in which an absent minded school teacher invites the wrong family over for Christmas dinner.

Altogether a funny chapter. But the destruction of the chocolate cake is not easily forgivable.

[bitter69uk]

Recently watched: made-for-TV movie Death at Love House, originally broadcast on ABC 3 September 1976. Joel and Donna Gregory (Robert Wagner and Kate Jackson) are a husband-and-wife writing duo collaborating on a biography of the doomed Hollywood star Lorna Love, who died tragically young in 1935. (Coincidentally, Joel’s artist father had an impassioned affair with Lorna and painted a portrait of her). And for reasons never fully explained, the couple move into Love’s totally intact Hollywood mansion to research their book (Love House was shot on location at the former estate of silent movie star Harold Lloyd). Creepily, Lorna’s perfectly preserved, eternally youthful corpse is on permanent display – Snow White-style - in a shrine on the premises. Strange occurrences immediately start happening. Who is the ethereal “woman-in-white” Donna glimpses in the garden? Why are there macabre occult symbols everywhere? Who was Father Eternal Fire, Lorna’s satanic looking “spiritual advisor”? Obviously, almost anything produced by Aaron Spelling is bound to be campy fun. With its emphasis on occultism and lurid showbiz tragedies (Lorna is clearly inspired by Jean Harlow), Love House suggests a page torn from Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon. It will also remind you of other, superior movies: Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968), Fedora (1978). And like 1944 film noir Laura, characters spend a lot of time staring, mesmerized, by an oil painting of a dead woman. For verisimilitude, supporting parts are played by actual classic Hollywood veterans like Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour and John Carradine. (The Gregorys’ literary agent is played by Bill Macy - Walter from Maude!). Less happily, zero effort is taken to make Lorna 1930s “period appropriate”. (She’s seen in flashbacks portrayed by Marianna Hill - cult movie fans will recognize her from The Baby and Messiah of Evil – with a feathered blow-dried 70s coiffure). And the ending is worthy of an old episode of Scooby-Doo! Smudged, murky prints of Love House are easy to find on YouTube.

[jadelotusflower]

2024 Roundup - books read

Fiction

Stone Blind: Medusa's Story - Natalie Haynes

Atonement - Ian McKeown (re-read)

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (re-read)

The Marvelous Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Ozma of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

The Road to Oz - L. Frank Baum

The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire (re-read)

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A biography- Virginia Woolf

Sappo: Poems & Fragments - Sappo (translated by Josephine Balmer)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (translated by Henry Frith)

The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (translated by Jordan Stump)

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley (re-read)

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy (re-read)

Sir Percy Leads the Band - Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy (re-read)

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Mass

Best Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen (translated by Jean Hersholt)

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (re-read)

Non-Fiction

A year in the life of Ancient Egypt and the real lives of the people who lived there - Donald P Ryan

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings - Lloyd LLewellyn-Jones

American Prometheus: The Tragedy and Triumph of J Robert Oppenheimer- Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth - Natalie Haynes

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the bombing of London - Erik Larson

The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age - Frank Welsh

Pagan Britain - Ronald Hutton

Unruly: A History of England’s Kings and Queens - David Mitchell

Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Maureen Ryan

Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction - William H Hamlin

Essays: A Selection - Michel de Montaigne (translated and edited by M.A. Screech)

Hey Honey, I’m Homo: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture - Matt Baume

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent - Judi Dench (with Brendan O’Hea)

What I Ate in One Year (and related thoughts) - Stanley Tucci

What I liked

I enjoyed most of what I read this year, including revisiting some older books with new eyes, finally getting around to some classics from my TBR list (with a few detours), and general mix of history and biography/memoir.

My favourite book of the year, and now up there with my favourite books of all time, is Piranesi, something that has been on the list a while and yet something I have successfully avoided spoilers for. I went in completely blind and so glad I did because the way this story washed over me is one of those very rare things and I loved loved loved reading this book.

I also really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow (the tv adaptation was sadly a bit of a disappointment). There’s a fine line between whimsical and twee and while that line likely differs for everyone, for me it successfully kept just on the side of whimsy - or maybe I just love a literary reference and this was full of them. It also inspired me to check out the works of Montaigne which I found interesting in context.

On the non-fiction front, American Prometheus is a good companion to the Oppenheimer film, and Burn it Down was an excellent but rage-inducing peak behind the Hollywood curtain, but The Man Who Pays the Rent was my other favourite read this year. Rather than ghostwritten, this takes the format of question and answer between Judi Dench and actor/director Brendan O’Hea, each chapter focussing on a different Shakespeare play and the characters Dench performed. It’s a beautiful insight into the acting process, theatre history, and Shakespeare’s female characters. Dench is so compelling and charming and the format allows her voice to leap off the page (more memoirs should take this approach tbh). I love Shakespeare but hardly consider myself an expert, so her perspective on the works and the characters was insightful - one of those books you look forward to returning to at the end of the day.

What I didn’t

When I tell people I’m writing a fantasy novel they often ask if I’ve read A Court of Thorns and Roses and I’m kind of sick of seeming uninformed about this faeriecore juggernaut, so finally gave it a go. It’s…not for me, really, despite it being generally keyed into my interests. I just found it…kind of boring? Feyre is dumb as rocks difficult to care about, and Tamlin, despite the cute nod with the name, is stock beast archetype with no other discernible personality.

Most of the book was an absolute slog until it finally got semi-interesting 3/4 in, but we’re stuck in Feyre’s pov and therefore unable to explore anything approaching compelling or nuanced. I’ve been told it actually gets good in the second book (and have been spoiled about the whole Rhysand thing), but I’m not really inspired to give it any more effort.

I also had mixed feelings about Emily Wilde - while of better quality than ACOTAR and I really loved the worldbuilding and some of the fae characters (Poe my beloved!) the central romance fell completely flat for me (maybe I’m just immune to the charms of faerie lords?) and I find the narrative is limited by the epistolary style. However I enjoy the fae plotline enough that I will likely get around to the third book at some stage.

On the point of mixed feelings, it’s interesting how much I enjoy Natalie Haynes’ non-fiction work on Greek myth while finding that her fiction completely misses the mark. Essentially a collection of essays, Divine Might is engaging and thought-provoking on the various depictions of Greek goddesses and their place within the mythos both then and now. On the other side of the coin, Stone Blind is ostensibly Medusa’s story, but mostly told through other perspectives and (much like with her previous effort A Thousand Ships) Haynes is preoccupied with recreating the whole of the myth which ultimately subsumes women, and therefore fails in its premise to showcase the female perspective. It’s just so odd that she can’t bring any of her insights from her compelling analysis to an actual narrative.

[taiblogcomics]

Yellow Brick Road Closed, Take Next Exit

Hey there, dark sanctuaries. The main G5 series may be over, but we've still got some spinoff material to cover for the rest of the summer! In fact, we won't even see the G5 crew for the rest of June!

Here's the cover:

Ponies! Observe the viewing globe! While they're pondering their orb, I'm gonna comment that this is kind of an odd cover (if you'll excuse the pun) for this series. Like, this is a lot less indicative of the series it's spoofing. Like, Celestia's been established as Glinda, Twilight will probably be the Wizard, and Nightmare Moon was the one witch that got house-bonked. Chrysalis will probably be the witch of the west. But when would they all have hung out together and spied on Applejack/Dorothy? Is that just something they spend their Friday nights doing~?

All right, it's been a while, so this recap is as much for my benefit as yours. As established, I will be referring to characters by the role they play (with character playing them in parentheticals). But you should know this story! A young farm girl, Dorothy (Applejack) and her dog Toto (Winona), gets whisked from her farm to the magical land of Odd. Having crushed the Wicked Witch of the East (Nightmare Moon) and inhereted her silver horseshoes, Dorothy sets out along the yellow brick road, befriending a talking Scarecrow (Pinkie Pie) along the way. Expect some meta-commentary!

Scarecrow sums up the total of Dorothy's backstory so far, questioning why she'd want to go back somewhere boring and gray. Dorothy replies that her family is there, and that makes it worth it. Plus, they need her to help run the farm. Scarecrow nods, suggesting that her sister Maud (misspelled Maude in this comic) would also like something boring and gray. Dorothy wonders how scarecrows can have sisters, and Scarecrow replies that you can basically paint a face on anything to try and scare crows with it. Maud happens to be a rock. With a very pretty face!

The yellow brick road takes a turn into dark forest, which Scarecrow immediately takes a spill on the more uneven bricks. Fortunately, she has no bones or meat bits to injure. Dorothy is not so lucky, getting ready to call it quits on the whole adventure right there. However, there is a little cabin nearby, so Dorothy takes a little rest while the Scarecrow occupies herself. Must be pretty handy to require neither sleep nor food. Sleep, I wouldn't miss, but food I definitely would. Anyway, come morning, the group sets out again. Scarecrow chatters away about parties she'd like to plan once she gets a brain, when they're interrupted by a groan.

It's neither of them, though. The groans are coming from a metallic pony standing in a clearing. This'll be our Tin Woodsmare (Rarity), though she finds the narrator's descriptor woefully lacking. With some badgering, she worms her way into the narrator position to describe her own looks, to Dorothy's consternation. Scarecrow instead cheers up the narrator and gets them to focus, getting the story back on track. The Woodsmare may be a fine thing made of metal, but she's rusted in place and can't move. All she can do is groan about Scarecrow's fashion choices.

Dorothy fetches an oil can from …somewhere, and sets about loosening the Woodsmare's joints. Upon hearing how they found her, the Woodsmare decides to join their quest to visit the Unicorn of Odd, on hopes they can give her a heart. Further, her axe (a proper ensemble isn't finished without the right accessory, darling) may come in useful. In fact, it does almost immediately, as she uses it to hack away some vines and brambles blocking the road. Very, very ''gleefully'' hacking, Dorothy notes, glad this new companion is on their side…

In fact, the yellow brick road is kind of a piece of crap in general! Does Odd have a Public Works department? Coz there's a load of potholes, and Scarecrow keeps falling into them because she doesn't have the brains to go around them. The Woodsman comments that she once had both brains and heart, and she'd rather have the heart back. THe heart allows you to feel passion, to fall in love! The most wonderful feelings! Dorothy notes her particular wording, and the Woodsmare fesses up that, indeed, she used to once be a pony made of flesh and blood like anypony else.

Her tragic tale is thus: Once upon a time, she gave up her career as a woodsmare to go into fashion designing. Her first show was a hit, but a wicked fashion designer (Suri Polomare, of all ponies, what a pull) laid a spell on her axe (with the help of the Wicked Princess of the East) in revenge. So when the woodsmare went to chop down some trees to build her shop, the axe instead cut off her leg. Not to be deterred, she had a metalsmith replace it with a metal one. This process continued, until she ends up chopping off every part of her body. The narrator notes the editors won't let them show that part.

Dorothy is commenting on the tragic backstory, when suddenly there's a fearsome roar from the woods! A truly terrifying beast appears, knocks both Scarecrow and the Woodsmare over with its paws, then makes towards Toto. Dorothy gets in the way, calling the creature out for its ill-mannered behaviour. In fact, you know who would do something like threaten a little doggie? A coward, that's who. And indeed, they confess to it. Meet our Cowardly Lion (Fluttershy)! Considering the Unicorn might be able to give her courage she never learned to have, she agrees to come with the group.

As they travel, they come all up ons a gorge. It's too far for the Cowardly Lion to jump them across, but Scarecrow suggests that they cut down this enormous tree and use it as a bridge. The Lion even compliments Scarecrow on the good idea, despite her lack of brain. Bit of a backhanded compliment, perhaps. However, as the tree comes down, the Woodsmare locks up and can't speak. This is kind of a problem, as the Cowardly Lion tries to warn them, because rapidly approaching them from behind are some fearsome beasts called Kalidahs. Well, this seems like trouble~

Honestly, I'm actually impressed on two fronts. One, didn't really expect them to adapt the darker parts of the Tin Woodsman's backstory into this, particularly with Rarity playing the character. Two, didn't expect a Suri Polomare cameo, a character who hasn't been relevant since their one appearance back in season 4. Just keep in mind that we're adapting the book, so there's gonna be some stuff that wasn't in the '39 film. Anyways, great issue, the banter with the Narrator is a lot of fun, and Flutters makes an adorable Lion for sure~

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Dorothy Maynor

Singer and educator Dorothy Maynor was born in 1910 in Norfolk, Virginia. Maynor made her debut at The Town Hall in 1939, and went on to become one of the most acclaimed singers of the 1940s and 50s. She performed throughout the world and with many major orchestras. In 1949, Maynor sang at the inauguration of President Truman. She is best remembered, however, as the founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, which she established in 1964. By the time Maynor retired in 1979, the school's student body had grown from 20 to 1,000. It now serves over 2,000 children a year and and has 60,000 alumni. In 1975, Maynor joined the board of the Metropolitan Opera, becoming its first Black member.

Dorothy Maynor died in 1996 at the age of 85.

Image: Maud Cuney-Hare

[usergrantaire]

gilded age s2e7

- feminist icon larry russell

- ah so george is still a robber baron after all

- they need to STOP putting marian in those yellows and stick to jewel tones, yellow washes her the hell out

- “i am persuaded” mmm are you tho?

- all this drama over fucking opera

- ooh is peggy gonna recruit marian to teach at sarah garnet’s school

- not agnes indirectly telling marian she wants her out of the house 💀

- “how many others went with you?” scandal!

- why is jack’s clock storyline so cute

- man stop sex baiting us make use of that hbo banner already

- old timey cameras are so charming

- flora is here!

- i knew mr mcneil was nasty

- naur is agnes reading a bible??

- it hurts to see oscar getting scammed

- sure, maud is definitely just in newport

- mrs astor ambushing bertha during tea, gotta live passive aggressive combat

- “you’ll regret it” nah the academy will have their last opera performance in 1886

- you know maud could still be a lesbian it’s just irrelevant to her scammer plot (me when im delusional)

- robber barons gonna robber baron

- yayyy john adams is back

- maud beaton, the gilded age anna delvey

- this brooklyn rooftop party looks divine

- peggy’s dress!!!!

- EMILIE KOUATCHOU????

- jesus christ everyone on broadway and their mother has been in this show but aaron

- naur not mrs astor stealing the duke from bertha 😭

- dorothy trying to set peggy up

- FEMINIST ICON LARRY RUSSELL!!!

- why are mrs bruce and mr borden cute lol

- noooo ada

- another larry and marian crumb how are we doing girls

- marian’s gonna have to marry super rich now isn’t she

[qnewsau]

Bea Arthur webpage reinstated after Trump DEI purge

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/bea-arthur-webpage-reinstated-after-trump-dei-purge/

Bea Arthur webpage reinstated after Trump DEI purge

A webpage about the late Golden Girls actress and gay icon Bea Arthur has been reinstated after falling foul of the Trump administration’s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Previously, X account ‘tortured marketing department’ (@swiftillery) revealed the page about Arthur on the US Department of Defense (DOD) website had been scrubbed.

Arthur, who died in 2009, enlisted in 1943 as one of the first members of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.

After boot camp, she served as a typist at marine headquarters in Washington DC, before the Marine Corps accepted her transfer request to the Motor Transport School at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

She worked as a truck driver in North Carolina in 1944 and 1945, and reached the rank of Sergeant before she was honourably discharged in September 1945.

Page not found

From at least 20 March 2025, the page on the DOD website documenting Arthur’s military service began displaying a ‘404 – Page Not Found’ error message.

The URL contained the letters ‘DEIbefore’, adding credence to the theory it was a victim of US President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI campaign.

Previously, Trump’s defence secretary Pete Hegseth announced the military had until 5 March to “remove all DOD news and feature articles, photos and videos that promote [DEI]”.

The mention of DEI in the URL, and Hegseth’s order, led many to conclude Arthur’s page was deliberately yanked.

Bonus chapter of Women’s History Month in honor of the program scrubbing DOD web articles. Meet Bea Arthur, iconic Golden girl actress and one of the first women to join the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.

Her page has been removed.

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— tortured marketing department (@swiftillery) March 20, 2025

Back from the dead

But now, it appears to have been reinstated.

At time of writing, the page canvassing Arthur’s military service and subsequent entertainment career, was accessible.

The summary of Bea Arthur’s life, written by David Vergun, contains extensive information about the actress, including her support of DEI.

“Arthur was born Bernice Frankel and was raised in a Jewish home in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She was a longtime champion of equal rights for women and an active advocate for the elderly and Jewish communities in her major television roles, charity work and personal outspokenness,” one section says.

Bea Arthur (top centre) and Golden Girls cast members. Photo: NBC Studios/20th Television.

Gay icon

Another passage states: “She embraced the gay community, which had supported her professionally since the 1970s. Late in life, Arthur took up the cause of homelessness among LGBTQ+ youths.”

One of the biggest gay icons of the 20th century, Arthur initially attracted the community’s attention through her camp roles in Broadway musicals.

She played the role of Vera Charles in the original Broadway production of Mame from 1966 to 1970.

Sassy roles on television – including Maude Findlay in Maude (1972-1978) and Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls (1985 to 1992) – bolstered her status as a community favourite.

Multiple episodes of The Golden Girls dealt with LGBT+ issues, with Dorothy displaying inclusive attitudes.

Arthur’s charity work for queer youth cemented her status as a rainbow community favourite.

When she passed away at the age of 89, she left $300,000 to a shelter for homeless gay teenagers in her will.

The performer was also a long-term benefactor to the Ali Forney Centre, a New York-based homeless LGBT+ charity.

While she was twice married to men (Robert Alan Aurthur from1944 to 1950 and Gene Saks from 1950 to 1978) there were persistent rumours that she was a lesbian or bisexual.

It remains to be seen whether her DOD webpage stays online.

For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

[queermtl]

Queer MTL things to do: January 2025

Happy New Year! 2025 begins with another epic calendar of queer things to do, and there’s something for everyone under the winter sun. And like every month, Montréal is stuffed to the brim with events, parties and unique experiences painted in all the colours of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. From drag to community, circuit to underground, here’s some of our picks for the best LGBTQ+ things to do in the city. For further announcements, including those not announced at time of publication, follow QueerMTL on Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr! Got an event coming up? DM it our way!

LEGEND

🎥 Cinema 👑 Drag 🥳 Parties 🎶 Concert ✊ Activism 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans 🏳️‍🌈 Community 😆 Comedy 🎭 Performance 💪 Sports 👯‍♀️ Dance 🎤 Karaoke 🎨 Arts 📚 Literary / Educational 👠 Ballroom / Vogue

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

🎨 Pointe-à-Callière’s exhibition Witches—Out of the Shadows runs until April 6, 2025, Pointe-à-Callière 👑 Helpez-moi live; New Year Hangover with Sami Landri, Cabaret Mado

Thursday, January 2, 2025

👑 Contestant Uma Gahd hosts screenings of Canada’s Drag Race Season 5, Bar Le Cocktail 👑 Girls' Night Out with Krystella Fame, Bobépine and EmmÖtional Damage, Cabaret Mado 👑 Le strange show with Demone LaStrange, Asmatix and Jay Show, Bar Le Cocktail

Friday, January 3, 2025

👑 Cult of AnarchKey presents SICK NÜ YEAR—Nü Metal Drag Cabaret with Korra AnarchKey, BONES, Honey Jack, Just Hxrny, SALT, Woody Fungi and Yikes Macaroni, l’Escogriffe 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Tracy Trash, Celes, Carmen Sutra and Nana, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, January 4, 2025

🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra 👑 Madonna: The Celebration Tour with Jimmy Moore, Cabaret Mado 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Tracy Trash, Celes, Carmen Sutra and Nana, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, January 5, 2025

🥳 Utopia day rave with Sleaze D, Esme B2B Zi!, DJ Hermano and Max Mira, TBA Mile Ex 👑 Shrek Birthday for Charli Deville with Anaconda LaSabrosa, Butterscotch Blondie, Charli Deville, Démone LaStrange, EmmÖtional Damage, Miami Minx, Selma Gahd, Uma Gahd and Yikes Macaroni, Wiggle Room 👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and Velma Jones, Aizysse Baga, and Bobépine, Cabaret Mado 👑 Dimanche Show with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

👑 Full Gisèle : Back to work, b*tch! with Petula Claque, Lady Boom Boom, Victoire De Rockwell, Démone La Strange and Lulu Shade, Cabaret Mado 😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 👑 The Golden Girls with Tracy Trash, Velma Jones, Marla Deer and Prudence as Blanche, Sophia, Dorothy and Rose from the TV favourite, Cabaret Mado

Thursday, January 9, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 👑 Contestant Uma Gahd hosts screenings of Canada’s Drag Race Season 5, Bar Le Cocktail 👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail 🎭 Dolly Parton-Lesque! with Frenchy Jones, Yikes Macaroni, Miami Minx, Bibi Lolo Bang Bang and Zyra Lee Vanity, Wiggle Room

Friday, January 10, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🥳 DÔMESICLE with Paurro, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] 🏳️‍🌈 BLUF Montréal leather men monthly gathering, Bar Le Stud 🥳 Cerise Noire goth night, Notre-Dame-des-Quilles 😆 Soirée HAHA! with Alex Hamel, Maude Dessureault, Olivier Fay and Val Belzile, Pub Le Vieux 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Jessie Précieuse, Jimmy Moore, Lana Dalida and Nana, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, January 11, 2025

📚 The Violet Hour Book Club reads Éric Chacour’s What I Know About You, Archives gaies du Québec 👑 Jimmy Moore personifies Lady Gaga with Jimmy Moore, Cabaret Mado 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Jessie Précieuse, Jimmy Moore, Lana Dalida and Nana, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, January 12, 2025

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash and Jessie Précieuse, Gina Gates and Krystella Fame, Cabaret Mado 👑 Dimanche Show : Fiesta Latina with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

🥳 Lana's Valentine: Dance Party, Lana Del Rey X Vanetine’s Day dance party, Turbo Haüs 👑 Full Gisèle : The Last Showgirl with Gisèle Lullaby, Adriana The Bombshell, Foxy Lexxi Brown, Sasha Baga and Esirena, Cabaret Mado 😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🥳 Taylor's Valentine: Dance Party, Taylor Swift X Vanetine’s Day dance party, Turbo Haüs 👑 Da-Lulu with Lulu Shade, Lady Magpie, Stella Stone, Kelly-Day and Diva on a Dime, Cabaret Mado

Thursday, January 16, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🥳 Igloofest with Michael Bibi, Tali Rose, Félix Patry, DJ Minx and Willwash, Old Montréal 👑 Contestant Uma Gahd hosts screenings of Canada’s Drag Race Season 5, Bar Le Cocktail 🎭 John Waters Tribute Show! with Yikes Macaroni, Jolie Lolita, Misty Portugal, Moonshine Sunshine and Sally D, Wiggle Room 👑 Les Productions '90s present: Soirée Drag with Jessie Précieuse, Crystal Starz and Victoire de Rockwell, Cabaret Mado 👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Friday, January 17, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🥳 Igloofest with Apashe, Imanu, Jesca, Honeydrip, Marie Davidson and Dileta, Old Montréal 🥳 DÔMESICLE with Turbine, Plug’N’Pray, Lissn, Melodrastik, Kuantum and Trench Foot, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]  🥳 Virtualis caught a virus! with Pretty Privilege, Dino Nydo, Mossy Mugler b2b Syana, Leathersheets b2b Sperdakos, Vamana and Blanket, Esc 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Adriana The Bombshell, Misty Waterfalls, Krystella Fame and Nana, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou : Soirée sans pantalon with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, January 18, 2025

🎤 Bareoke: Strip Karaoke, Café Cléopatra 🥳 Igloofest with Claptone, Dombresky, Mandiz, Hangaëlle, Duppy and Akantu, Old Montréal 🥳 SUPER TASTE MTL and Homopop presents CLUB DÉSENCHANTÉE featuring ‘80s and ‘90s French classics and indie sleaze, Bar Le Ritz PDB 🥳 Winter Dolls: Girl-Pop Dance Party with FEVERS, Turbo Haüs 🥳 Homegrown x Tits—Dusk Till Dawn with Ciel b2b Lis Dalton, esme b2b Esther Côté, Lia Plutonic b2b Liv K and cori (fka corinita) b2b XIA, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte, Adriana The Bombshell, Misty Waterfalls, Krystella Fame and Nana, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, January 19, 2025

👑 Afternoon Drag Cafe with Itsh and Timothy Toxic, Agenda Co-op Bookstore  👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Pétula Claque, Sasha Baga and Misty Waterfalls, Cabaret Mado

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

📚 The Violet Hour Reading Series hosts an interview with Éric Chacour, Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe 👑 Full Gisèle : Disney with Gisèle Lullaby, Marla Deer, Bambi Dextrous and Bobépine and Lady Guidoune, Cabaret Mado 😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 👑 Throwback Disco with Adriana The Bombshell, Moh Dafok, Lady Boom Boom, Foxy Lexxi Brown and Jessie Précieuse, Cabaret Mado

Thursday, January 23, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🥳 Igloofest with Bladee, Doss and Coucou Chloe, Old Montréal 🎥 Queer Cinema Club of Montréal and Image+Nation hosts two screenings of David French's Heads or Tails (J'en Suis), Cinema Moderne 🥳 Fundraising Concert for Lebanon and Palestine with Patrick Watson, Radwan Moumneh and Special Guests, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] 👑 Le Sami Party with Sami Landri, Cabaret Mado 👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Friday, January 24, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🥳 Igloofest with Zeds Dead, Tape B, Distinct Motive, Melek, Dopamyne, Xaviera and Runa & Asha, Old Montréal 🥳 SUPER TASTE MTL presents What's My Age Again? [Vol. 3] featuring pop punk and emo dance, Bar Le Ritz PDB 🥳 DÔMESICLE with DINA, BitterCaress and NASTYA NVRSLP, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte and Special Guests, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Saturday, January 25, 2025

🥳 Igloofest with Skepta (Más Tiempo), Syreeta, Lia Plutonic, Surprise Artist, and on the Laylit stage: Cheba Iman, Nadim Maghzal, MNSA and Manalou, Old Montréal 🥳 La Louche with Nicky Doll, DJ Ian Jackman and Reid Bourgeois, Ausgang Plaza 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte and Special Guests, Cabaret Mado 👑 Drôles de Drags with Miss Butterfly, Ciathanight, Crystal Starz or Emma Déjàvu in rotation, Bar Le Cocktail

Sunday, January 26, 2025

👑 Le Tracy Show with Tracy Trash, Marla Deer, Lady Boom Boom and Daisy Wood, Cabaret Mado 👑 Dimanche Show : Monsieur Michel with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

🎶 Slowdive, L’Olympia 👑 Full Gisèle : Marry, F*ck, Kill with Gisèle Lullaby, Pétula Claque, Velma Jones, Clay Thorris and Tracy Trash, Cabaret Mado 😆 Stand Up St. Henri Open Mic focusing on women, non-binary, queer and allied comedians, Impro Montréal

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec

Thursday, January 30, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 🎭 Cabaret Rachelle en Franglais with Rachelle Elie, Café Cléopatra 🎭 Les Productions Médusa presents Odyssée with Christopher Delarue and Kevin Veynand, Cabaret Mado 👑 Concours MX Cocktail 2025 with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

Friday, January 31, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 Archives gaies du Québec hosts the queer zine exhibition GÉNÉRATION XEROX, Archives gaies du Québec 👑 CABARET: The Dancing Djinn featuring belly dancing and music with Samara and Nikotine, Kawalees 🥳 DÔMESICLE with Solar & Mozhgan and badgalquirit (MDSM), Society for Arts and Technology [SAT] 👑 Mado Reçoit with Mado Lamotte and Special Guests, Cabaret Mado 👑 Vendredi Fou with Michel Dorion, Bar Le Cocktail

OTHERS / LES AUTRES

👠 Twice a month on every second Tuesday, Bring It! hosts an OTA night of ballroom and vogue with commentator and DJ. Follow their Instagram for dates and details.

🎤 Queer Karaoke MTL hosts regular karaoke events. Follow their Instagram for dates and location.

💪 Montréal Roller Derby hosts regular matches and open boot camps throughout the year. Follow their Facebook page for additional info. 

🤠 Club Bolo—Danse Country Montréal meet on Fridays at the Association sportive et communautaire du Centre-Sud.

👯 Tango/Salsa Queer holds lessons every Saturday, visit queertangomtl.com for information or contact tango.queer@hotmail.com or call +1 (514) 709-4678 for prices and signup information, Espaces des Arts.

🏐 Les Ratons-Chasseurs (Montréal’s LGBTA dodgeball group) holds regular events. Keep an eye on their Facebook for upcoming opportunities to join in and play. 

🕹Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gatherings including board game nights and gaming gatherings. Check their Facebook for what’s next!

🏃🏾Join the Out-Run run and workout club for people relating to the queer / sapphic experience. Details on their Instagram!

🐦 Bird lovers should keep their eye on Queer Birders' regularly scheduled birdwatching events and excursions. Join the Facebook group and get those binoculars at the ready.

💪 Queer Bloc’s monthly bouldering events bring together MTL’s queer climbing community with live DJs, after-drinks and even a tattoo artist on-site. Follow their Instagram for all of the details.

[curiousdamage]

What inspired you to write for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman? Can you tell me more about your OC? I'm planning to start reading your story soon.

I used to watch the show with my parents. It was our thing. Then I found it again on FreeVee, and was watching it when I was reminded of a plot bunny I had before I even knew fan fiction was a thing, lol.

In the episode 'Happy Birthday' one of the main town characters, Jake, gets alcohol poisoning and in the midst of having hallucinations from withdrawal, confesses his love to Dr. Mike.

She looks concerned that he said that, but Loren and Sully who are there as well, shared an almost guilty look, like they knew something she didn't. So the plot bunny 'They know who he was really talking to' was hatched.

Annabelle Bray Slicker:

Annie is Loren and Maude's younger daughter, Abigail's younger sister, making her Sully's sister-in-law as well. Annie grew up in Texas where Loren ran his parent's store.

When she was 14 and Abigail was 15, their family moved with Loren's sister, Olive and her husband, to Colorado. She worked in their store there, as well as help Olive and Henry out at their ranch.

She has/had a contentious relationship with Maude who didn't always treat her so kindly due to the fact that Annie bears a strong resemblance to Maude's sister Dorothy who courted Loren until she ran off with another man. Maude would make disparaging comments about her looks often, or that Annie would be an 'old maid', but then was unhappy when she met Jake as well.

She met Jake when she was 16 and he'd first come to town. They courted off and on for a few years, his drinking was hard to deal with, before eventually eloping when she was 19 and he was 22.

She and Abigail were very close and Abigail's death devastated her. She struggled with grief, trying to help her parents, and Jake started drinking again.

After a fight with him, she tells him that if he doesn't stop, she's leaving. Then she has a nasty encounter with Maude and leaves, going to stay at one of Olive's ranches in another state.

She's still there when the story starts and Sully demands that Hank go and get her in case the worst happens.

Sorry for the novel! I hope you enjoy it, but no pressure!

[byneddiedingo]

Dorothy Mackaill in Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman, 1931)

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Morgan Wallace, John Wray, Ivan Simpson, Victor Varconi, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Noble Johnson, Cecil Cunningham, George F. Marion. Screenplay: Joseph Jackson, Maude Fulton, based on a play by Houston Branch. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Jack Okey. Film editing: Owen Marks. 

Seamy and salacious, Safe in Hell is sometimes cited as an example of what finally scared Hollywood into accepting the Production Code, except that you could hardly find a more conventionally moral fable than this tale of a call girl who gives up her sinful ways when her sailor comes back from sea and proposes marriage. Unfortunately, the man who done her wrong intervenes and Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill) is forced to flee to a Caribbean island populated mostly by men of the wrong sort. Still, she manages to hold on to her renewed virtue and rise to self-sacrificing heights at the end. Mackaill is terrific in the role, making me wonder why she's not well-known today. It's probably because most of her work was done in silent films and she was turning 30 when sound came in, putting her at a disadvantage against younger actresses like Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck when it came to landing lead roles. Director William A. Wellman had a steady hand with this kind of tough-edged melodrama, introducing touches of comedy like the crowd of lecherous barflies who live in the hotel Gilda moves into while waiting the return of Carl (Donald Cook), her sailor. When she moves into her room on the balcony at the top of the stairs, they turn around their chairs to face it, eager for whatever action may occur. They're not disappointed: Piet Van Saal (Ralf Harolde), the man she thought she killed, forcing her to flee to the island, turns up alive, and the island's lawman, its "jailer and executioner" in his words, the unsavory Mr. Bruno (Morgan Wallace), also takes an interest in her. It's a middling movie, mostly of historical interest, particularly in the appearance of two important Black actors, Clarence Muse and Nina Mae McKinney, in roles that don't call for them to kowtow too much to the whites or speak the standard dialect concocted for Black people in the movies. McKinney, best known today for her performance as Chick in King Vidor's Hallelujah (1929). gets to introduce the song "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," which became a jazz standard when Louis Armstrong popularized it. Muse, who plays a hotel porter, was one of its composers, along with Leon René and Otis René. 

[vintagetvstars]

Bea Arthur Vs. Joan Collins

Propaganda

Bea Arthur - (Golden Girls, Maude) - Okay okay where do I even start!! Bea Arthur is incredibly attractive. She has a SUPER deep voice (stunning), a sort of regal, statuesque way of moving and talking, and she can kill you with a single piercing look. Like seriously. Her Looks have become a thing in both shows she plays a lead character in. Did I mention: TWO characters were *written for her*!! When she did Maude in 1972, she'd appeared on All in the Family as a side character and the people there loved her so much they went "this woman needs her own TV show". SO THEY WROTE IT. And made 6 seasons of it. That's how good she is. When the pilot for The Golden Girls was written, creator Susan Harris described the part that Bea would end up playing as a "Bea Arthur type" before they'd even cast her in the role. She was Jewish, she served as a typist and truck driver in the marines during WWII, she had a whole career off and on Broadway behind her by the time she started her career in television, and she was an ally to the gay community — there's even a shelter for homeless queer youth named after her. And did I mention her voice?? Because she can sing too!

Joan Collins - (Dynasty) - No text propaganda

Master Poll List of the Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket

Additional propaganda below the cut

Bea Arthur:

She was just so funny and compelling onscreen. She had great timing. And she was beautiful no matter what age and she was an incredibly LGBT+ ally.

I think it's a very common experience to start watching The Golden Girls and immediately develop a crush on Dorothy Zbornak - and it's not a coincidence. Between her statuesque figure, her regal poise, her sharp wit and her wonderful, deep voice, Bea Arthur brings so much to the table that it's impossible not to be head-over-heels in love with her from the very first moment she appears on screen. Career-wise, she's a legend of the small screen; she received the third most Emmy nominations for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (an incredible 9!). Her guest appearance as Maude in All in the Family impressed both the public and the executives so much that they made a spin-off series *especially for her*. She led Maude - the sitcom - for six incredible seasons to critical and public acclaim, and this would already be enough to nominate her among the greats, but then - as the true queen she was - she went on to star into *another* legendary show, The Golden Girls, as *another* legendary character, Dorothy, and won another Emmy (as well as several nominations) for it, just because she could. As for her private life, she was known as a private, introverted person, who loved the simple things in life; all her fellow TV stars (including Angela Lansbury, who was a dear friend of hers) recall her as a kind, decent person and a wonderful professional, with impeccable work ethic and truly immaculate comedic timing. We do not support the military complex here, but we do support girlbosses winning, so let me just mention that she was one of the first women (ever!) to join the US marines; she was also a licensed medical technician. All in all - a legendary lady who definitely deserves your vote!

how many people can dress up as the Statue of Liberty and look this good?

have you ever seen a woman so beautiful you started crying

MOTHER

soft butch queen. Who else could rock a papillon like that?!?

1982 Bea Arthur - Fifty Percent.avi

Beatrice Arthur, Down in the Depths, 1980 TV

Joan Collins:

[roseeycreates-blog]

Just a young Vivian/Blanche and Maude/Dorothy. I created this years ago...didn't steal it, I promise! Haha, it's from my other account @eddirufan :)

I’m also on Ko-fi~ Feel free to buy me a coffee if you’d like to support my work!

[sporadiceagleheart]

here's a tribute edit for statues of those who passed away Inez Briggs, Mary Jane Barker, Maud H. Munn, George Sturgis Pillsbury, Margaret Raithel, Marie “Mary” Raithel, Caddy Naugle, Tacie Hannah Fargo, Dorothy Wade Huff, Grace Sherwood Allen, Gracie Perry Watson, "Little" Annie Kerr Aiken (1853-56), Annie Oakley, Anne Frank, Kelly Ann Fleming, Dr. Seuss, Louis B. Mayer, Judy Garland, Clockwise, from far left: the poignant Boy in the Boat; cemetery guides and stone seating by the cemetery entrance; statue of Revolutionary War Major General Joseph Warren, also a doctor, who was slain during the Battle of Bunker Hill; and one of the many picturesque vistas at Forest Hills, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, John Denver, Michael Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Walt Disney, James Brown, Ray Charles,Terry, Elvis Presley, Greyfriars Bobby, Austin was only six when he died, Andrea the Giant, Dusty Rhodes, And Emmett Till

[polniaczek]

Hilda Spellman, Laverne DeFazio, Hooper from Jaws, Maude Finley, and Blanche Devereux

this list of characters is wild to me on account of i barely know who some of them are lol but ty for submitting <3

laverne

favorite thing about them: gonna be real. penny marshall playing her. she makes the character and the accent is everything least favorite thing about them: favorite line: "a nun! 😅 ...a nun... 🤔 ...a nun's nice. 😐" brOTP: OTP: shirley nOTP: random headcanon: i don't have any REAL hcs i really need to rewatch the show it's been too long but i feel like she wore lavender and purple a lot which means nothing unless you have your tin hat on in which case it means she's gay unpopular opinion: no idea what's unpopular for l&s song i associate with them: this is so goofy but i could see hit the road jack by ray charles being her anthem favorite picture of them: none but i have this one w penny's daughter :)

blanche

favorite thing about them: she's a bad bitch and she knows it least favorite thing about them: blind to her privilege sometimes which tbh i don't mind on this particular show but i would hate that quality in most characters favorite line: that one line about not caring if her brother is a homosexual, she just doesn't like him dating men asdkfjfd brOTP: dorothy OTP: i don't really ship on tgg nOTP: random headcanon: unpopular opinion: song i associate with them: the lady is a tramp by frank sinatra favorite picture of them: again, the only one i have but i do love it lol