Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright tells this story to friends:
Ages ago, he was going through a rough, lonely, isolated, messy period, and Golden Girls airings always provided comfort for him.
(Been there!)
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The late Bea Arthur loved to eat hard boiled eggs with tabasco sauce, according to her Maude daughter Adrienne Barbeau at Bea's gala memorial yesterday. And that's absolutely perfect since Bea was a hard boiled egg with tabasco sauce!
The downtown kids loved Bea Arthur, who stylishly ripped people a new anus as Maude, continued to do so in different caftans in the perpetually re-running Golden Girls, and even survived the sad movie of Mame.
So here comes God'll Getcha For That: A Bea Arthur Tribute at Dixon Place on July 31, featuring a lineup of performers doing Bea's best loved numbers, in between anecdotes, film clips, and everyone rolling their eyes and going "Walter!"
It's free, by the way, but what to wear? According to the invite, "Linen pants, cowl necks, and low boots not required but strongly encouraged." And caftans!
2009 will surely go down as the dyingest year in celebrity history, when the only gossip about stars was that they'd suddenly stopped breathing. It's only July, and so far we've already lost the lustrous likes of:
This eye popping 1991 artwork by John Currin was unearthed by my friend Vodka Stinger in a random google image search of late Golden Girl Beatrice Arthur. I have no idea why Bea's knockers are hanging out in the painting, but I'm glad they never did a similar portrait of Abe Vigoda.
If that's not enough boobie Bea for ya, check out this Chris Zimmerman work from a "Golden Gals Gone Wild!" art show. It proves once and for all that the woman put the tit in titillating.
Golden Girl Bea Arthur and golden boy Rock Hudson are both gone, but their wit lives on forver in this old TV clip that puts the two of them together for a rousing rendition of "Everybody Today Is Turning On," a rollicking paean to the days when "Amil Nitrate was some guy's name" and someone "pushing" was merely rude. Join Bea and Rock as they sing about how nowadays all substances seem to travel "around your windpipe and up your nose." And see if you agree with me that Bea is way butcher than Rock.
Nobody could do a slow burn like Bea Arthur, the hilarious comic actress who was the anything but tranquilizin' right-on Maude and later the witheringly sarcastic Dorothy on The Golden Girls. With her wicked wit, Bea pushed envelopes while making audiences think and scream with laughter at the same time. Only a talent as strong as Bea could survive both the rotten movie of Mame--which she told me she only took part in because her husband at the time was the director and he made her do it--and The Star Wars Holiday Special, the worst two hours ever seen on TV, in which Bea sang a bizarre Brechtian song with some space aliens. (She never told me why she did that one.)
Alan Light
