Bea Arthur’s sharp humor and potty mouth were remembered at yesterday’s tribute to the late actor, People reports. Recollections ranged from the reverent—“She really taught me how to be a feminist,” said Rosie O’Donnell—to the raunchy—“God, I want to f--- him,” Arthur once said of Alec Baldwin. But it was Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan who brought the house down with her memory of an intoxicated Arthur.
“Rue, I love,” said Arthur when introduced to McClanahan’s husband—but wasn’t so complimentary of fellow co-star Betty White: “Betty's a cunt.” (More Betty White stories.)