My girl Blanche Devereaux err I mean Rue McClanahan has just published her autobiography! I must have it!
Here is a short interview she did for USAtoday
1: Why write a memoir?
I just wanted to tell my story, and if I can, save some women from the mistakes I made in picking mates. (She has been happily married for almost 10 years to husband No. 6, Morrow Wilson.)
I just wanted to tell my story, and if I can, save some women from the mistakes I made in picking mates. (She has been happily married for almost 10 years to husband No. 6, Morrow Wilson.)
2: In the book, you rate the sexual performance of your former husbands and lovers with your Fun in Bed Quotient.
I just thought it was amusing and funny. Some men have a talent.
3: What were your favorite roles?
"Faye Precious in Who's Happy Now?, off-Broadway and for PBS. It was a joy not to be surpassed. Also, Vivian on Maude, Cherie in Bus Stop and, of course, Blanche on Golden Girls."
"People who think that can't possibly know me. I'm not much like Blanche. She just slept around. I never did that. I always had one man and had them one at a time."
5: What's next for you?
"I'm doing six one-hour episodes of a new comedy show called Ryan's Life for the Here! TV network. I play an Auntie Mame-like flamboyant, free-wheeling grandmother whose teenage grandson is questioning his sexuality."
Great quote from Rue!
People always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta -- and I'm not from Atlanta!’” -- Rue McClanahan
