http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819 Dreams of one final reunion are now down the drain as <a rel="nofollow" href="http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/07/estelle-getty-w.html">Estelle Getty</a> has passed on. The actress best known for her role as the wise-cracking Sophia on <i>Golden Girls</i> has passed away. en-us Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:34:37 EST Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:32:59 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819#6 But she ended up driving her hubby, Balthazar, into the arms of that strumpet Sienna Miller. Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:32:59 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819#5 It is annoying the way they all just repeat the same thing over and over again no matter the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc">factoid's relevance</a> to the actual situation isn't it. Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:55:11 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819#4 I think you're confusing Estelle Getty with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan, there's something you don't know about me. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=fear%20factor%20chappelle&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officia Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:42:59 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819#3 I submit that Estelle Getty represents a frontier of fame: she is the least famous you can be and still have your death reported widely by the press.  On the fame/death curve, she is our observed localized minima.<p> At the height of her fame, she was Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:25:52 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819#2 Where did the media get off saying that Getty died of "advanced dementia"? Obviously she died, but I think she expired of something a bit more prosaic like heart failure or something. Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:45:24 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/7/23/174327/819#1 A major voice is now forever silenced.  Her book <i>The Gulag Archipelago</i> was a masterpiece of anticommunism. Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:29:07 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/