Passing: Estelle Getty of 'Golden Girls' (AP)

From The Associated Press through The Los Angeles Times:

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," died on July 22, 2008. She was 84.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-getty23-2008jul23,0,6560661.story