R.I.P. Sophia
22nd July 2008
Interrupting family-parent-life-local blogging to give a special farewell to Estelle Getty, A.K.A. Sophia from the Golden Girls.
She’s the first of my ladies to pass away (all are in their 70s or 80s), and has suffered from dementia for years.
I’m sad. Being a cynical journalist means celebrities hold little influence or star-struckness over me, but the Golden Girls are my soul food in TV form. I’ve been watching them since I was a kid, and have the entire 7-year series on DVD. My ladies have brought comfort, distraction and humour to almost every hard time in life.
At least Getty is no longer suffering. In death, there is always comfort in that.
Gonna go pop an episode in until Lucy wakes up from her nap. It’ll have to be one with her famous line: “Picture it, Sicily, 1922…”
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I loved that show too. She was great at those one liners…
She will be missed.
Like Betty White said after hearing the news, “Estelle may be gone, but we’ll always have Sophia”.
My favorite Sophia moment was her refusing to post bond after the girls got arrested as hookers so she could use thier tickets to go to a concert. The thought of her prancing and dancing while they were behind bars brings tears of laughter to my eyes. She was truely a classic actress. Love: Pa
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