Rue's Broadway Debut

Our dearest Blanche... er, I mean Rue, got her Broadway start in a play that no one has ever heard of, Jimmy Shine. The year was 1969 and a young Dustin Hoffman had just starred in The Graduate, and then for some reason taken a role in this play (nobody ever heard of). It apparently did well (considering nobody's ever heard of it) and our lovely Rue had a co-starring role as Sally Weber, the girl who Jimmy is in love with.

The play sounds dull. If singing lions aren't trying to kill each other, or green woman aren't dangling from the ceiling I just ain't interested! The only reason I brought this up at all? To share these pictures!

Sexy, sexy all the way.

*Special trivia: Rue actually did co-star in the flying green woman show, playing Madam Morrible in May 2005*

So Blanche is Steve's Grandma?

I never would have guessed, he doesn't sound one bit Southern.

 

Season 3, Episode 1 : Blue's Big Treasure Hunt. If you couldn't have guessed, it's about a treasure hunt...a big one. Also starring the voices of Carol Kane and Gregory Hines.

 

Golden Girls referenced on Arthur?

Ok, I think we can all agree that Golden Girls is the best show ever. However, I will occasionally mention other awesome shows on this blog. Please understand, they are in no way any competition with GG's. Nothing can ever be as awesome as they are.

Do you know what make an awesome (but less awesome than GG's) show even awesomer? When they make any sort of reference to The Golden Girls. And today that show is Arthur. Yes, Arthur. Yes, that animated children's show. Shut up, you know you secretly love it. At least I do. And not secretly either.

So, back to my point. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but I can only hope and pray that it was!

Seriously, how awesome is that? I didn't make this screen cap, someone else had already done it, which means that I wasn't the only one to think "Holy shit! Golden Girls!" I just wish that rabbit looked more like Sophia.