For all of you fans out there (especially Bonds), more sad news...

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.

Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at her Hollywood Boulevard home, said her son, Carl Gettleman of Santa Monica.

"Estelle always wanted to be an actress, and she achieved that goal beyond her dreams," former "Golden Girls" co-star Rue McClanahan told The Associated Press. "Don't feel sad about her passing. She will always be with us in her crowning achievement, Sophia."

SHE MADE THAT SHOW...................

No doubt - it sure wasn't Bea Arthur  

She was only 61 years old when she got the role playing an 80+ year old?     Amazing that she died at 84...   looked like she was 104.

Anyway... it was a good show,  and of course you can't forget her role as  Stallone's mother in "Stop!  Or my mom will shoot!" 

Yes, I often confuse that one with Throw Momma From the Train for some odd reason

 The lady from Throw Momma From The Train was Anne Ramsey whose face looks remarkably like a catcher's glove from the early 1920's.

Yeah she was also the old lady in The Goonies - hard to forget a face like that.