RIP

Damn, where the h do you get your live news feed?

Actress Rue McClanahan, who played the Golden Girl that got around, died Thursday of a massive stroke, People.com reported.

She was 76 - a fact her alter-ego on "The Golden Girls," the bawdy Blanche Deveraux, would never dream of divulging.

"She passed away at 1 a.m." at New York Presbyterian Hospital, her manager, Barbara Lawrence, told the magazine.
McClanahan "had her family with her," Lawrence added. "She went in peace."

The Oklahoma-born daughter of a beautician and a building contractor, McClanahan was in shaky health. She suffered a minor stroke earlier this year, while recovering from bypass surgery.

The death of the scene-stealing actress leaves Betty White as the last surviving member of "The Golden Girls," which ran on NBC from 1985 to 1992 and remains in syndication.

Last year, McClanahan's co-star Beatrice Arthur died from cancer. The wise-cracking Estelle Getty died in 2008.

White is the midst of a career resurgence and recently hosted "Saturday Night Live."

McClanahan launched her acting career in New York in 1957 and made her Broadway debut in 1969 in the musical "Jimmy Shine," which starred Dustin Hoffman.

Like the Blanche Deveraux character, McClanahan was catnip to men. She was married five times and recounted her amorous adventures in her 2007 autobiography, "My First Five Husbands."

McClanahan has just one child - a son, Mark Bish, from her first marriage.



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someone needs to select her in the TV characters tourney ASAP

I just give her to zeb right now, I mean it has happened on his watch.

good work rick...you know how to fun a fair and balanced tourney