Sorry, No Pets. Unless Yours Just Died
More than two decades ago, the City Council passed a law that would allow tenants who sneaked their cats and dogs into apartment buildings, co-ops and condominiums with no-pet policies to keep them as long as no one took action against them within the first three months. Now, the Council is poised to expand that law by allowing residents with smuggled-in pets to replace them -- without fear of eviction -- when they die.. New York City Council approves law allowing tenants with smuggled-in pets to replace them--without fear of eviction--when pets die; bill has drawn wide support from tenants and their advocates, animal rights groups and celebrities (S)
RUE MCCLANAHAN: An Appreciation Of The Original Jezebel
Rue McClanahan���who passed away today���is best remembered for her Emmy-winning role on The Golden Girls. Blanche Devereaux was a notch in the bedpost of sex-positive feminism because���for the first time���a��.
Astronomer Carl Sagan speaks at Lehigh commencement in 1990 - Almanac.
In 2010: Emmy-winning actress Rue McClanahan, 76, died in New York. 100 years ago: War production taking a toll: Joseph Yonik, an employee of the Bethlehem Steel Works, yesterday lost his left index finger, which was caught in the machinery, and Antol .
ARTS BRIEFING
HIGHLIGHTS TELEVISION HIRING PRACTICES -- For the third consecutive year white men directed more than 80 percent of 860 episodes of the Top 40 prime-time drama and comedy series, according to a report by the Directors Guild of America on the employment of female and minority directors by television networks. The report says that in the 2002-3 season, 13 of the top 40 shows hired no minority directors, 10 hired no female directors, and 3 hired neither female nor minority directors. The report reveals that once again the producers and the networks have failed to fulfill their contractual good-faith obligation to hire more women and minority directors, said Martha Coolidge, the president of the guild. Except for the use of black directors, which increased to 5 percent of the episodes from 3 percent in 2000-1, the report said, the statistics are virtually unchanged from the previous two years.. Arts Briefing column: Directors Guild of America report concludes that, for third consecutive year, white men directed more than 80 percent of 860 episodes of Top 40 prime-time television drama and comedy series in 2002-03 season; Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940, opens at Art Institute of Chicago and will run through October 13; three-part exhibit on how railroads influenced life and economy around Albany, NY, and across US opens at Institute of History and Art in Albany; Poetry Society of America and International Center of Photography team up for night of poetry in conjunction with centers current Lewis Carroll exhibit; New York Grand Opera will present Puccinis and Leoncavallos versions of La Boheme in Central Park; New York Philharmonics 39th season of summertime concerts will open at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island; Rue McClanahan bows out of Richard Alfieris new comedy, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, postponing September opening; Ontological-Hysteric Theater founder Richard Foreman becomes member of Frances Order of Arts and Letters; photos (M)
60-year-old crushes Uptown Funk hip hop dance routine, on The Feed!
Some of the latest and greatest viral videos include a 60-year-old spinning on her head and a man playing soccer with his amazingly skilled dog. First up, Artistic Edge Dance Academy shared this video of 60-year-old Shirley Clements -- a high school.
Remembering Rue McClanahan: Your favorite Blanche quip.
Image Credit: Everett CollectionIts hard to imagine that originally, producers asked Rue McClanahan to read for the role of Rose on The Golden Girls. Theyd wanted Betty White to play Blanche, a part McClanahan knew she��.
Readers Choice
Maybe you get a Salty Pimp or a Rue McClanahan ice cream sandwich. If you opted to hit the beach in October, you wont be faced with the crush of a summer crowd, and neither will you have to stand on a long line at nearby Rockaway Taco (voted Best .
Paid Notice: Deaths HARE, WILL
HARE-Will. A dear friend, whose Dylan, with Rue McClanahan, a production I was privileged to produce, was the finest Dylan ever portrayed on stage. God bless, Will. Well miss you. Martin Richards
Rue McClanahan, Actress and Golden Girls Star, Has Died.
Rue McClanahan, the brassy actress who stirred equal parts Southern charm and sex appeal into her roles on television shows like ���Maude,��� ���Mamas Family��� and ���The Golden Girls,��� has died, People magazine reported.
TV Notes; 25th Opening Night
New Yorkers who could not make it to Carnegie Hall last Wednesday will be able to watch the opening night performance of Yo-Yo Ma in concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tonight. They and classical music lovers around the country can see it on PBS, because tonight at 9 is opening night for Great Performances. And this opening night begins the 25th anniversary season for that series, which has brought operas, plays, dance and music performances to the nation as the longest-running performing arts series in the history of television. Along the way it has won more than 50 Emmys.. Concert by Chicago Symphony Orchestra will open 25th anniversary season of Great Performances, television series that brings operas, plays, dance and music performances to nation (S)
Arts, Briefly
Answering Ashley Olsen The National Enquirer says it isnt about to cave in to Ashley Olsen, who is suing it for $40 million in damages, in connection with an article under a headline that she says suggested she had been caught in a drug scandal. Responding to her suit for libel and invasion of privacy, Stuart Zakim, a spokesman for American Media, publisher of The National Enquirer, said yesterday, We stand by the published reports, and we will vigorously defend against the lawsuit. Footnotes A rooftop view of The Gates in Central Park will be a highlight when the Metropolitan Museum of Art, normally closed on Mondays, opens for Presidents Day from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum will also be open on Memorial Day, May 30, and Independence Day, July 4.. The Goodman Theaters Tony Award-winning production of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman is London-bound. With Brian Dennehy, below, repeating his Tony Award-winning role as Willy Loman, the play is to open on May 10 at the Lyric Theater in the West End... After 25 years as executive director of Actors Equity Association, Alan Eisenberg has announced that he will not seek another term when his agreement with that union expires in October 2006.. Billed as a New York premiere, the early Tennessee Williams one-act play Me, Vasha, written in 1937 for a playwriting contest at Washington University in St. Louis, will be the opening attraction of the spring season of Food for Thought, the lunchtime reading series, Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at the National Arts Club. Rue McClanahan will be featured.. Rome Neal, the artistic director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, will recreate his prize-winning portrayal of Thelonious Monk when Laurence Holders one-man show, Monk, opens at the Abingdon Theater Arts Complex in Manhattan for a run from March 15 through May 8.. Arts, Briefly column; National Enquirer reportedly stands behind published reports suggesting that Ashley Olsen, who has brought $40 million suit, was caught in drug scandal (S)
The Casts
The Casts
Actress and comedian Anne Meara, mother of Ben Stiller, dies at 85
Meara wrote and starred in the hit Off Broadway play Afterplay (1995), which also starred, at various times, Jerry Stiller , Rita Moreno , Rue McClanahan and Barbara Barrie. Meara also wrote Down the Garden Paths, which played Off Broadway in 2000 .
Stage: Peter Ott Is Like Daytime TV; Bill Hare Play Opens at McAlpin Rooftop
There is nothing at all wrong with daytime television serials as long as they keep to daytime television. God Says There Is No Peter Ott opened at the McAlpin Rooftop Theater last night, and I began to wish He had not only told me there was no Peter Ott but also revealed to me that there was not much of a play.. God Says There Is No Peter Ott: B Hare play God Says There Is No Peter Ott revd by C Barnes; illus
Golden Girls star RUE MCCLANAHAN suffered stroke last.
The Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan had a minor stroke last November while recovering from heart bypass surgery, the actress rep confirmed Thursday to EW. McClanahan has been in the hospital since then, but is��.
Designing Man Meets The Women, and Fur Flies
ISAAC MIZRAHI squints into a full-length mirror at the actress Jennifer Tilly and fiddles with her skin-tight skirt. If you want a slit in it, its O.K., he finally allows. No, Ive actually been working with a little walk, Ms. Tilly replies. Like a floozy. Of course, theres not a dab of floozy in me. Its quite a stretch.. Marjorie Rosen article on fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, who is designing costumes for his first Broadway show, Roundabout Theater Companys revival of Clare Boothe Luces 1936 comedy The Women; all-female cast includes Jennifer Tilly, Jennifer Coolidge, Kristen Johnson, Rue McClanhan, Cynthia Nixon and Mary Louise Wilson; photos (M)
ON STAGE AND OFF
Fall Calendar Takes Shape With the distraction of the Tony nominations passed and the distraction of the Tony Awards yet to come, several Broadway producers are finding the time to nail down details for the months ahead. Three more shows have made plans for the fall. The best-defined of them is Never Gonna Dance, the latest Broadway musical based on a film, in this case the 1936 musical Swing Time, starring Ginger Rogers as the ingénue and Fred Astaire as a young dancer who will do anything -- but dance, never dance! -- to earn her love. Featuring old music by Jerome Kern with a new book by the playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Never Gonna Dance is to open Dec. 4 at the Broadhurst Theater, which will be vacated on Sunday by another hoedown, Urban Cowboy, which has been valiantly playing to an almost empty barn.. On Stage and Off column; Never Gonna Dance, with old Jerome Kern music, is fifth new musical confirmed for Broadway this summer and fall; Richard Alfieris play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, canceled this spring after Uta Hagen suffered stroke, is being re-cast with Mark Hamill and Rue McClanahan; Ellen Burstyn to star in The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, from book by Allan Gurganus; photo; Shubert Organization chairman Gerald Schoenfeld notes posthumous Tony nomination for Amour, which closed brief run last November; pair of tickets for last performance of Les Miserables fetches $18,750 on eBay; London and tour productiosn continue; sing-along followers are invited to screenings of The Wizard of Oz (M)
Golden Girls Star Rue McClanahan Dies | TMZ.com
Rue McClanahan -- who played Blanche Devereaux on Golden Girls -- has died.Rues manager, Barbara Lawrence, says the actress passed away at 1 AM this���
Stage: Golden Fleece, David Show
The two one-act plays by A. R. Gurney, presented last night at the Actors Playhouse under the title Tonight in Living Color, have one big joke and one big message in common. For all that they are overdrawn, they make an evening of theater that is not hard to sit through, and is more often than not entertaining.. Tonight in Living Color: (The Golden Fleece and The David Show, by A R Gurney Jr) R F Shepard rev
Rue McClanahan is trending today on Google. - So0o.
They say cats have nine lives. Well, it seems Rue McClanahan, the consummate cougar, has had at least three. News of the death of the Emmy-winning actress who played the bawdy Blanche Devereaux on the hit TV series��.
Upcoming Auditions in Nashville 6/11/15
The original Off-Broadway production opened December 12, 1985, running for 3,672 performances and becoming the second-longest-running Off-Broadway show in history. The show has since been adapted for television, starring Rue McClanahan, and has .
Paid Notice: Deaths HARE, WILL
HARE-Will. A dear friend, whose Dylan, with Rue McClanahan, production I was privileged to produce, was the finest Dylan ever portrayed on stage. God bless, Will. Well miss you. Martin Richards
Heres What the Adorable Kid From Curly Sue Looks Like Today
Alisan Porter became famous when she was 10 years old, most notably as the ringlet-haired child star of the John Hughes movie Curly Sue. More than two decades later, shes opening up about leaving Hollywood ��� and revealing one shocking secret.
NBCS GOLDEN GIRLS GAMBLES ON GROWN-UPS
When it comes to women, television has always had an obsessive love affair with youth. Creamy skin and firm thighs are a prerequisite for leading roles. Actresses with wrinkles play the ingenues mother or - if the actress was once a major movie star - the matriarch of a harum-scarum clan of voracious young people. A womans worth is tied into what she looks like, says Susan Harris. At 82, Cary Grant could still be a romantic lead. But, on television, a woman over 50 is cast as an ax murderer.
Golden Girls Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Betty White.
Stars Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Betty White were among the first celebrities to publicly speak out against fur on television; they recorded a commercial for PETA that decried fur-wearing as cruel and advocated the��.
Comedys Golden Training Ground
COMPILING a list of the most influential sitcoms of the last two decades shouldnt be all that controversial a task. Do Seinfeld and The Cosby Show deserve a place in the pantheon? Absolutely. Should Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond make the cut? Sure, why not. But what about The Golden Girls? At first glance, a comedy about four sassy, silver-haired ladies living together in Miami would seem to be the antithesis of groundbreaking. The series, which ran on NBC from 1985 to 1992 and has a new DVD release, was always a consistent crowd pleaser, never placing lower than 30th in the Nielsen ratings in any of its seven seasons, but it didnt yield any standout episodes or memorable catchphrases. Nor was it intended to. Ive always just preferred to write about older people, Susan Harris, creator of The Golden Girls, said. They have stories to tell, and young ones dont.. Legacy of television program The Golden Girls is the many talented writers and producers who went on to create and work on big hit programs of recent years; roster includes Marc Cherry, creator and executive producer of Desperate Housewives; others noted; photos (M)
Rue McClanahan -- Secret Dirty Jokes | TMZ.com
Rue McClanahan will truly be missed. for her smile, her compassion. and her ability to tell a dirty joke. TMZ obtained footage of Rue and her gal���
This day in history, June 3, 2015
Emmy-winning actress Rue McClanahan, 76, died in New York. One year ago: President Barack Obama arrived in Warsaw, Poland, at the start of a three-country swing, pledging to boost U.S. military deployments and exercises throughout Europe. Tens of .
No, Rue McClanahan From The Golden Girls Did Not Die.
That was an interesting thing to hear, considering I had already mourned the lovely Blanche Devereaux aka Rue McClanahan back in 2010 when she actually did die. I pushed him to clarify where he heard this. It was all over��.
Jan Peerce Will Be Tevye No. 7
Jan Peerce, the tenor, will make his Broadway musical theater debut in Fiddler on the Roof, starting next Tuesday. The record-breaking show, which reached its 3,000th performance last Saturday, is at the Broadway Theater.
Golden Girl Rue McClanahan: Dead at 76 - InStyle
Golden Girl Rue McClanahan: Dead at 76. Rue McClanahan, best known for playing saucy southern belle Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, passed away today at the age of 76. The Oklahoma native began her��.
Popular Demand
In the universe of some 107 million blogs last week, the hot topics were mostly related to the potential of a swine flu pandemic. There was also room for the 100-day milestone of the Obama administration and the N.F.L. draft, which was also the most popular cable TV broadcast last week. Among the notable cultural events were the death on April 25 of the Golden Girls star Bea Arthur (above center, with Rue McClanahan, left, and Betty White) and free comic book day, a day of giveaways at neighborhood comic book stores on Saturday.
Remembering RUE MCCLANAHAN, TVs First Cougar - The.
Long before the we were exposed to the sexcapades of Samantha Jones, the world had Blanche Devereaux. For seven much.
Rue McClanahan Thinks a Really Good Haircut Is Priceless.
Name: Rue McClanahan. Age: 75. Neighborhood: Sutton Place Occupation: Actress. Whos your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? I guess it would have to be Marlon Brando. Or maybe Superman ��� he was��.
Rue McClanahan Dead: Golden Girl Dies Of Stroke At 76
NEW YORK ��� Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series The Golden Girls, has died. She was 76. Her manager, Barbara��.
Slideshow: Today In History, June 3
In 1935, the French liner Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after crossing the Atlantic in just four days. 1937: The Duke of Windsor. In 1937, Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married.
Why is everyone posting about RUE MCCLANAHANs death when she died four.
Rue McClanahan, a.k.a. Golden Girls Blanche Devereaux, died four years ago last Tuesday. And yet, Twitter and Facebook were mysteriously ��� inexplicably! ��� flooded today and over the weekend by variations on the theme ���R.I.P. Rue.��� .
Footnotes
Footnotes
Betty White, Leslie Jordan, and friends remember Rue.
Friends and co-stars of Rue McClanahan have begun pouring out their tributes to the late actress. Read below to see what some of the actress best pals had to say about the Golden Girl. Betty White, who co-starred with��.
Anne Mearas dark family secret
Rue McClanahan and Barbara Barrie were in the original cast, but when McClanahan had to leave to work on a movie, Meara, with the help of her therapist, mustered the courage to take over the role. Stiller joined the show, too, though he had to duck out .
Events Today; Theater Concerts Dance Cabaret
Events Today; Theater Concerts Dance Cabaret
Footlights
NEWS Studying Stravinsky Right now, the most keenly eyed composer in town seems to be Igor Stravinsky. From tomorrow through May 13, the life (1882-1971) and turbulent times of the Russian-born composer will be studied in a Great Performers festival, Focus on Stravinsky, with music, film, dance interpretations, a symposium and a puppet version of the ballet Petrushka. And at 8 tonight, the composers miniature theatrical masterworks, including Histoire du Soldat and Renard, will be staged for The Little Theater of Igor Stravinsky. This presentation by the Eos Orchestra, led by Jonathan Sheffer, will take place at the Concert Hall at the Ethical Culture Society, 2 West 64th Street. The Focus on Stravinsky festival starts at 8 at Alice Tully Hall, with Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music group in six Stravinsky pieces. World of Music In his first New York concert since receiving an American Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the pianist Randy Weston is to perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at Alice Tully Hall. He will be joined by his African Rhythms Quintet and by the six Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco, members of a mystical black Islamic sect, Their powerful rhythms, audible in jazz, blues, spirituals, calypso, Latin and Brazilian music, are intended to heal and to extol God.. Great Performers festival at Ethical Culture Society and Alice Tully Hall will focus on life and turbulent times of Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky; Randy Weston will perform first New York concert since receiving American Jazz Masters Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts; will be joined by his African Rhythms Quintet and Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco; photo; Mary Beth Hurt, Shirley Knight and Rue McClanahan will take part in reading of Paul Zindel comedy, Ladies at the Alamo, at Actors Studio Reading Festival; architecture of Disney theme parks will be subject of exhibition from March 17 through August 5 at National Building Museum in Washington; photo (M)
Golden Girl RUE MCCLANAHAN recovering after bypass surgery
Rue McClanahan, 75, is ���doing great��� after a bypass surgery performed yesterday in New York, according to her rep, Barbara Lawrence. The Golden Girls actress first diagnosed with acute cardiac illness on Monday during a��.
RUE MCCLANAHAN dies at 76 | EW.com
Image Credit: http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100603/Rue-McClanahan_240.jpgRue McClanahan, best known for playing a sex-obsessed Southerner of a certain age in the 1985-92 sitcom The Golden Gi.
These shows prove TV isnt really against older women
The Golden Girls (from left): Estelle Getty, Bea Arthur, Betty White, and Rue McClanahan (Rex). Ranked #69 on the Writers Guild of Americas 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, Golden Girls was an immediate hit when it aired in 1985. Chronicling.
Today in history: Video -- James Earl Jones reciting Casey at the Bat
Joran van der Sloot Emmy-winning actress Rue McClanahan, 76, died in New York. Advertisement. 2014. President Barack Obama arrived in Warsaw, Poland, at the start of a three-country swing, pledging to boost U.S. military deployments and exercises .
Day in History: An era ends at Peterson High School
. ��� Dr. Robert Waller, president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Foundation, and Richard L. Knowlton, chief executive officer of the George A. Hormel and Co. in Austin, are among the 145 business and farm leaders who will meet Soviet President.
Stage: Friels Crystal and Fox Opens; Will Hare Cast as Head of an Irish Troupe
CRYSTAL AND FOX, a play by Brian Friel. Directed by Patrick Conlon; set ling by Philip Gilliam; lighting by Judy Rasmuson; costumes by Mr. Gilliam and Jennifer von Mayrhauser; incidental music by Ted Auletta; production stage manager, Ginny Freadman. Presented by Sheila Conlon, associated Producer, Carmel Quinn. At the McAlpin Rocktop Theater, Broadway and 34th Street.. Crystal and Fox: B Friel play Crystal and Fox revd by C Barnes; illus
Golden Girls star RUE MCCLANAHAN goes viral five years after her death
They say cats have nine lives. Well, it seems Rue McClanahan, the consummate cougar, has had at least three. News of the death of the Emmy-winning actress who played the bawdy Blanche Devereaux on the hit TV series The Golden Girls was trending .
Florida Motel Is Home? Father Knows Best
Safe Harbor WB, tonight at 9 (Channel 11 in New York) From the creator of Seventh Heaven, here comes another golden family drama dripping with sentiment.. Anita Gates reviews Safe Harbor, WB dramatic series (S)
DAY BY DAY
Van der Sloot is serving a 28-year sentence for Flores murder. Emmy-winning actress Rue McClanahan, 76, died in New York. In 2014, President Barack Obama arrived in Warsaw, Poland, at the start of a three-country swing, pledging to boost U.S. military .
These Modern Cult Classics Are Available On Netflix Right Now
In the film, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) signs up for the futuristic fight against an invading bug army. With the help of Denise Richards, N.P.H. and Blanche Devereaux herself Ms. Rue McClanahan playing ���Biology Teacher���, he and the other Roughnecks .