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The most rewarding parts about writing a book are usually the advance payment beforehand, or the acclaim afterward. But for me, with ‘The Q Guide to The Golden Girls,’ it was the homework.
In the spring of 2006, I had the excuse to revisit old favorite ‘Golden’ episodes, all in the name of journalism. And even better, I had the opportunity to interview Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan in their respective homes, where I could not only ask them outright about their careers, but could also observe firsthand a small slice of their own real lives. For a gay man who had grown up on Dorothy Zbornak’s quips and Blanche Devereaux’s steamy sex stories, this was fantasy camp.
With her sixth husband, Morrow Wilson, not at home when I arrived at her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Rue answered the door in a bathrobe, fresh from the shower. Then, because this interview was going to be captured on video for the Archive of American Television (it’s now viewable, in fact, here), I was able to watch as the Oklahoma native, then 72, went into makeup, transforming gradually into a certain beautiful, carefully coiffed Miami slut.
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