Rue McClanahan, who played the can’t-help-but-love-her self-centered slut Blanche Devereaux on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls*, had triple bypass surgery last November 4th. At some point during her recovery she suffered a minor stroke and is currently hospitalized. Her rep told Entertainment Tonight that the actress is doing “amazingly well” and that “She’s walking and talking and entertaining the staff with her feisty personality.... 

Sad news tonight…..actress Beatrice Arthur has died at the age of 86. I know Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak on NBC’s Golden Girls from 1985 to 1992, but older generations know her most as Maude, a spinoff of All in the Family. PEOPLE reports: Dan Watt, a spokesman for Arthur’s family, told the Associated Press that the star had been suffering with cancer, though he did not specify what kind. She died peacefully at her Los Angeles...