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By the time that she became known to millions of television viewers as Edith Bunker's sharp-tongued cousin Maude, Beatrice Arthur was already a seasoned actress with a lengthy resume of theatrical credits.

With her husky voice, mannish demeanor and pointed one-liners, Bea Arthur was a natural for men who impersonate women.

Pretty, buxom, brunette player of stage and screen who may be best known as Carol Trener, divorced daughter of Bea Arthur on "Maude" , Norman Lear's groundbreaking sitcom.

ET and celebrities attended a reception to honor renowned producer Norman Lear for his work on television shows like "All in the Family," "Sanford and Son," "Maude" and more! "Everybody loves Norman, he gave us all work back in the '70's when we needed it," Ed Begley Jr .

Before Dick Wolf and his "Law & Orders", and David E. Kelley and his legal shows, there was Norman Lear, who produced some of the highest rated and most critically acclaimed comedies in television history.

The first seasons of seven seminal series of the ?70s - All in the Family , Sanford and Son , Maude , Good Times , The Jeffersons , One Day at a Time and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - are featured in The Norman Lear Collection, a new DVD box set , along with two previously unreleased All in the Family pilots and? interviews.

The major TV work of writer-producer Norman Lear has found its way to DVD, generally in no-frills sets.

The date for Bea Arthur 's memorial has finally been set. The show will take place at the Majestic Theater in New York on Monday, September 14, 2009 at 1pm.

We have a brand new exclusive special feature clip from The Norman Lear Collection , which is set to hit the DVD shelves in a 19-disc set on June 9. Click below for our exclusive special feature clip, which features Norman Lear and Bea Arthur talking about their controversial Maude character.

Emmy Award winner Rue McClanahan, who was most recently on Broadway as Madame Morrible in Wicked , is currently checking out Chicago theatres to house her one-woman show, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Bea Arthur's recent death lends a bittersweet tone to an upcoming Norman Lear DVD collection, which fea tures an interview with Ar thur, the star of Lear's "Maude," along with in terviews from stars of other Lear shows .

YET more damning revelations in the MPs' expenses scandal emerged today. More disclosures were made about their receipts, while one newspaper claimed MPs set to retire at the next election will rake in thousands from selling taxpayer-funded homes.

Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - people of the past month.

That's what TV's golden girl confessed when interviewed in 2001 by the Archive of American Television, an offshoot of the foundation of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Arthur was playing boozy actress and sidekick Vera Charles to Angela Lansbury 's Mame, and no one has ever played that role better.

BEA Arthur seemed the very definition of a tough showbiz broad. Tall, astringent, imperious -- she looked like someone who didn't suffer fools and could cut them down with a withering look or a well-aimed barb, delivered in that famous contralto.

Yesterday, Saturday, April 25th, 2009, the world said goodbye to legendary comedienne, Bea Arthur.

"God will get you for that, Walter." Nobody could do more with these words than Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay on the marital warpath.

The Associated Press reported the death of actress Beatrice Arthur, Saturday Morning April 25.

"God will get you for that, Walter." Nobody could do more with these words than Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay on the marital warpath.