I was sad to hear that the warm and funny Bea Arthur died over the weekend after battling cancer. She was 86.

Bea Arthur passed away today of cancer. It’s strange when a celebrity dies and it truly saddens you to a degree that it’s as if you knew them. But that’s definitely how I felt when I saw the onslaught ...

UPDATE: You can read statements from Betty White and Rue McClanahan here. Bea Arthur, an award-winning actress of stage and television, died today in her Los Angeles home. She was 86. During her years ...

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Some of the biggest names in 1960s-80s showbiz were at the Majestic Theater today for the geriatric alternative to Fashion Week: a memorial to Bea Arthur, who passed away this April from cancer at the ...

Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girlsand who won a Tony Award for the musical Mame ...

In a statement, Arthur's publicist Dan Watt said: "She was a brilliant and witty woman. Bea will always have a special place in my heart." Watt declined to offer specific details about his client's ...