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Posted Thursday 7/08/21 at 2:52PM EDT
The Golden Girls and Animaniacs actor Chick Vennera dies at 74
The prolific actor appeared on numerous shows, even playing two roles on The Golden Girls: a boxer and a reporter.
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Posted Monday 4/12/21 at 10:02AM EDT
DMX's appearance on VH1's Couples Therapy was a rare instance of positive "celebreality"
"It takes a lot to make me cry, but DMX’s life story did it," says Liz Kocan in recalling when...
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Revisiting The Golden Girls Pilot: All That We Love — and Coco, Too
Everything good has to start somewhere, and for beloved TV shows, that usually means the pilot episode.
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Posted Saturday 12/05/20 at 4:56AM EST
The Golden Girls' Mel Bushman was TV's first "old-guy f*ck buddy"
"Whenever The Golden Girls’ man-crazy Blanche Devereaux found herself without a date, she’d call up her old standby, Mel Bushman,...
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Posted Thursday 9/10/20 at 3:31AM EDT
The Golden Girls theme got some serious soul for all-star Black cast table read
Viral video sensation Aaron Scott remixed the "Thank You for Being a Friend" theme for Tuesday's charity read for Color...
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Posted Tuesday 9/08/20 at 9:33AM EDT
An all-Black reimagining of The Golden Girls will stream tonight, starring Tracee Ellis Ross, Regina King, Sanaa Lathan and Alfre Woodard
Lena Waithe will host the online special tonight at 9 p.
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Posted Monday 8/17/20 at 10:38AM EDT
The Golden Girls house sells for $4 million
The house in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood that was used as the exterior for the classic sitcom sold last Friday...
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Posted Wednesday 7/15/20 at 2:22PM EDT
The Golden Girls house is for sale for $3 million
The 1950s-era four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood that was used for exterior shots for the Miami-set Golden Girls...
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Posted Saturday 7/11/20 at 3:24AM EDT
Prof calls pulling of blackface episodes patronizing to the Black Lives Matter movement
Alfred Martin, an assistant professor of communications studies at the University of Iowa who is doing a research on The...
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Forget the alleged blackface: The Golden Girls was mired in racism and rape culture throughout its run
As Steven W.
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TV's "now problematic" episodes have always been problematic
There's a natural tendency to blame "cancel culture" when TV shows and movies we like become "problematic now," says Jeva...
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 11:36PM EDT
Watch Don Cheadle take on Blanche from The Golden Girls' use of the Confederate Flag
Cheadle was one of the stars of The Golden Girls' ill-fated 1992-93 spinoff The Golden Palace when the Confederate flag's...
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Removing blackface episodes doesn't confront racism, says a scholar on racial caricature
"Every year, when I teach undergraduates about minstrelsy and blackface, I look around for a recent example -- and I...
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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 9:46PM EDT
Hulu removes a Golden Girls episode featuring blackface
The 1988 Season 3 episode "Mixed Blessings" features Betty White's Rose and Rue McClanahan's Blanche testing out a new mud...
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Posted Saturday 6/27/20 at 3:58AM EDT
What if The Golden Girls were actually part of an organized crime syndicate?
"Y’all probably think they were innocent widowers because that’s what they WANT you to think.