Daily Golden Girls

You know, I don't talk about Maude all that much. Maybe since I'm really into the Golden Girls, and maybe because I just haven't seen all that much of it. But what I love most about Maude is that every time I see a picture from it, I have to remind myself that it's Bea Arthur. It's like she is a totally different person, even totally different looking, when she switched from Maude to Dorothy Zbornak. Anyway, I love all the faces of Maude. In case you are not familiar with the show, her is a synopsis from USA Today:

Before Roseanne, Kate and Allie and One Day at a Time became hits featuring strong women and frequently mature themes, there was Maude, the groundbreaking, six-season CBS comedy featuring Bea Arthur.
Big, brassy and pushing 50 at the time, Arthur concedes she was an atypical TV star. The Broadway veteran was tapped for her own series after a stint on All in the Family as Maude Findlay, the liberal nemesis and sister-in-law of arch-conservative Archie Bunker. That prompted series creator Norman Lear to create a spinoff based on an upper-middle-class New York feminist on her fourth marriage.
"She was not your average, beautiful heroine, but I felt like Cinderella," says Arthur, now 83. "It was one of the first times on television that a woman was seen as the head of the family instead of the usual fumbling male."
Nearly 35 years after its debut in fall 1972, viewers may find Maude: The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $29.95) tame. But at the time, Maude's story lines on alcoholism, menopause, women's lib, nervous breakdowns and hemorrhoids were considered so controversial that some network affiliates refused to air episodes — such as a two-parter on Maude's abortion.
"I liked the fact that we touched on just about everything untouchable," says Arthur, whose last TV appearance was as Larry David's surly mom on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. "It was so very different and not what people expected."