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TV: Estelle Getty, Salty Irascable Golden Girl, Dies

An Appreciation by Noah Mallin Estelle Getty, who donned a white wig to play Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls in the 1980s and practically stole the show from her three better known castmates, has died. Getty portrayed the mother of Bea Arthur’s character though in real life Arthur was actually older. Getty’s broad zinger [...]

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Film: Actor Richard Widmark Dies

An appreciation by Noah Mallin Richard Widmark was the paradoxical nice guy offscreen who played bigots (No Way Out, with Sidney Poitier), right-wing nutjobs (The Bedford Incident as a submarine commander on the brink of starting World War III) and a chilling giggling psychopath (in his breakthrough role in Kiss of Death.) Kiss of Death [...]

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