RIP Estelle Getty- Page 2

[RyToast1]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 1:58pm

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[jasonf]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 2:02pm

Sad - I had heard she was sick when she didn't show up at the TVLand awards with the other three.

So talented...

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 2:15pm

Rest in peace, Estelle. We will all miss you.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 2:23pm

Rest in Peace, Ma.

[roquat]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 2:23pm

"Sal, I'll never let go."

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 2:53pm

They can't ALL be classics!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:01pm

Anyone else remember her in Torch Song Trilogy?

Rest in peace, Estelle. It was a pleasure seeing you become rich and famous after so many years of struggle. If you can do it, so can anyone else who is talented and dedicated and serious about the craft of comedy.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:03pm

Um, PJ, that was Joan Crawford.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:11pm

*Dorothy impression*
That's TORCH SONG, you idiot!

Anne Bancroft was in TORCH SONG TRILOGY.

[voiceanthliveth]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:22pm

good night sweet prince - we hardly knew ye!

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:24pm

Getty was in TORCH SONG TRILOGY on Broadway.

Anyhow...Rest in Peace, Estelle.

You have the house in Miami all to yourself. So you can finally vacuum in the nude.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:38pm

I've heard so many great things about her performance in TORCH SONG TRILOGY, I really wish I had been able to experience it myself.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:45pm

"Anyone else remember her in Torch Song Trilogy?"

*raises hand*

I saw her in it on Broadway. She was brilliant, hilarious, and far better than Miss Bancroft was in the movie.

I also saw her out and about, roughly a dozen years ago at Debbie Shapiro Gravitte's cabaret act here in L.A. She was in BAD shape even back then. Had to be helped to/from her seat, and moved very slowly.

I'm so sorry she suffered for such a long time.

God bless, and rest in peace.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 3:52pm

Well, Anne Bancroft does a bang-up job in the movie, but Estelle seemed to come out of nowhere. She was little, she looked frail, and then she kicked Harvey's ass.

The ferocity of her acting was breathtaking. Plus those conversations between gay sons and their mothers were just beginning to happen. Remember: AIDS was new, gay bashing was (old but) new to mother-son conversations, and making the loss of a gay lover equivalent to the loss of a heterosexual spouse was simply unheard of.

When you have Anne Bancroft playing a part, you KNOW she's gonna act up a storm. But Estelle, as I said, came out of nowhere.

And for her to go from that to a perfectly etched comic character in a long-running series that defined a new, young gay sensibility the way Golden Girls did...well, that's how you become an icon with sheer talent and chutzpah.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 4:21pm

How very sad. "May flights of angels sing her to her rest."

[DG]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 4:28pm

I'm sorry she's gone, but happy she's out of pain.

And I hope Calvin's ok.

[fflagg]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 4:34pm

Classy lady. Let's hope the Emmys remembers her with a proper tribute. I am sure Bea Arthur is devestated as they were close.

RIP.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 4:43pm

She will be missed. I'm glad she's out of pain now.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 5:57pm

She was brilliant in TORCH SONG. As soon as she walked on stage it was WHAM! She had everyone in the palm of her hands. Why she wasn't even nominated for a Tony Award for that performance I'll never understand.

There will never be another Estelle Getty.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 5:57pm

Bea Arthur told Us magazine: "Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her."

Betty White also remembered her co-star: "The only comfort at this moment is that although Estelle has moved on, Sophia will always be with us."

Said Rue McClanahan: "Estelle always wanted to be an actress, and she achieved that goal beyond her dreams. Don't feel sad about her passing. She will always be with us in her crowning achievement, Sophia."

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 6:13pm

"Bea Arthur told Us magazine: "Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her." "


Kind of a weird thing to say. Patting yourself on the back while eulogizing someone else.

"We were the best ever! Sorry she's dead."

[BarockosModernLife]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 6:19pm

I loved Estelle, but in the great words of (basically) Jesus, "It's time for change!"

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 6:20pm

lol besty! They really did have a special chemistry, though.

I also loved Getty as Rocky's grandma in Mask.

RIP to a wonderful talent.

[voiceanthliveth]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 6:52pm

She's in a far better place right now - well - actually - right now she's at Schwartzman's off of La Cienga - but - you know what I mean...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/22/08 at 6:57pm

Michael Feingold just pointed out that Harvey Fierstein's association with Estelle Getty started before Torch Song.

She appeared in his Flatbush Tosca in 1975, at New York Theater Ensemble, a year before International Stud, the first play to become part of the trilogy.