RIP Estelle Getty
RIP Estelle Getty
MenzelManiac
Leading Actor Joined: 1/8/05
#1RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:13pm
As per TMZ:
Estelle passed away at 5:35 AM this morning at her L.A. home surrounded by her family and caregivers. Getty had been suffering for years with Lewy Body Dementia.
As per me.... 
Updated On: 7/22/08 at 01:13 PM
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#3re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:16pm
I'm so bummed out.
Good Night Sofia says it all.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#5re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:18pm"Picture this: the present day, everywhere, people mourning the passing of a funny lady."
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#6re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:18pm
"Oh Ma....Don'tcha know I love ya?"
I think maybe she's just gone to buy a nectarine.
(RIP Estelle)
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#7re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:19pm
Picture it, Sicily, 1928!
Her memory will live on forever.
#8re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:19pm
Just yesterday my bro asked me if all the Girls were still alive. I gladly gave him an emphatic, "Yes!"
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#9re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:22pmMay she rest in peace.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:24pm
It sounds like she was suffering for a long time.
Thanks for the memories, Estelle!
#11re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:27pm
One of my fave Sophia moments:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nVykeznpgaQ&feature=related
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#12re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:27pm
Another:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OLYds1dlPf0&feature=related
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#13re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:28pm
Dorothy: Ma, you were never part of the St. Valentines Day Massacre.
Sophia: "I said a St. Valentines Day Massacre."
#14re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:29pm
So sad!
Why is noone else confirming this?
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#15re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:32pmI had to look up Lewy Body Dementia. Poor lady.
#17re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:33pm
Still another:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oeaGnjfnimA&feature=related
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#18re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:34pm
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#19re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:34pm
It's on her website:
http://www.estellegetty.com/index2.html
3 days short of her 85th birthday.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#20re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:34pm
http://www.estellegetty.com
http://www.tmz.com
Rue was on the Today Show this morning. Did she have any idea this had happened during her interview?
#21re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:39pm
The announcement on her site:
http://www.estellegetty.com/note.html
#22re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:43pm
Hey, is there any mention of this on her website?
Bless her, I'll be watching Golden Girls tonight.
#23re: RIP Estelle Getty
Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:47pmJust TMZ as far as I can tell, Moo.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
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