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Jul 21, 2019 · ‘Maude’ actress Adrienne Barbeau recalls bonding with Bea Arthur: ‘I learned so much about comedy from her’ By Stephanie Nolasco Fox News Published July 21, 2019 5:00am EDT
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- Most People Know You from Maude. Why Was The Show So Controversial?
- What Are Your Memories of Bea?
- Nice! How About on A Personal level?
- When Did You Know You Wanted to Become An Actress?
- I’ll Say! What Happened Next?
- What Are Your Memories of Grease?
- How Would You Rate These Costars: Burt Reynolds, Kurt Russell and Swamp Thing?
- How Was It Being Directed by John Carpenter?
- How Are Your Twins Doing?
- And How Are You Feeling These days?
We dealt with the same things we’re dealing with today: the ERA, abortion rights. We dealt with homosexuality and manic depression before anybody did.
Oh, I loved Bea. I’d never done TV, so I took for granted how professional and giving she was. She’d be the first one to say, “I think this joke might be funnier if Conrad [Bain]said it.” It was all about what made the show the best. And there are still times when I hear Bea’s delivery coming out of my mouth. I learned so much about comedy from her...
I don’t want to say she was like a surrogate mom, because we were more like close friends. She made the best chicken salad you could imagine! She was really a homebody. What she cared about most were her children and her dogs and being at home.
I don’t think it crossed my mind that you could be an actress as a career. When I was 15 I joined a community theater in San Jose, California, and their touring company was chosen to entertain the armed forces. So two weeks after I turned 18, I was on the DMZ singing for GIs who got killed by the North Koreans after our show. It was an experience.
A woman who’d been on Broadway said, “You ought to go to New York to study.” I thought, if nothing happens by age 25, I’ll teach drama … but I ended up on Broadway!
Yes, I was the original Rizzo! Most people don’t know that we opened on Valentine’s Day, and then on February 15 they posted the closing notice. The original newspaper reviews were not good. It was only through the machinations of the fantastic producers, who thought they could keep the show open long enough for word of mouth to take off, that we w...
[Laughs] Well, Swamp Thing is the only one I had a love scene with! Kurt Russell was fantastic. Burt Reynolds I had a relationship with [in the mid ’70s] and he directed me onstage in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest before we didCannonball Run. It was not my favorite experience, but it didn’t have to do with Burt. I was intent on creating a charact...
I met John on a TV film, so we worked together before we got romantically involved. We did four films, though most people don’t realize I was the voice of the computer in The Thing! We have a son together, and they just finished an international tour of John’s music. It was such a joy for me to watch the two of them work together.
Walker is at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in L.A., so I see him quite a bit, and William is just graduating from Brown [University], on his way to a career as a music producer. He just said, “I think I’m coming back to live in the house until January,” so I haven’t lost them completely!
I’ve come to a point where I’m very happy. I spent a lot of time in therapy. You get to understand your part in whatever’s going on in your life, why those patterns are repeating, and then begin to change them.
Jun 25, 2019 · The character Maude Findlay was a feisty, unabashed liberal, and the series wasn’t afraid to wade into political debates, offering viewers more than just canned laughter. Let’s take a dip into the past and see how the message of Maude would still resonate with audiences in the present day.
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May 7, 2020 · Adrienne Barbeau made a name for herself as a “scream queen” in former husband John Carpenter ‘s horror/sci-fi films and as the daughter on Bea Arthur ‘s award winning ’70s show “Maude.”...
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May 8, 2021 · ‘Maude’ stars Bea Arthur and Adrienne Barbeau in a scene from the CBS hit comedy |. CBS via Getty Images. Lear discovered Arthur in a theater show. Executive producer Norman Lear...
Mar 14, 2015 · The reason Lear could discuss such hot-button topics, said Barbeau, was “that he was doing it with humor. They were funny. He was never knocking the audience over the head with some socially...
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Apr 25, 2009 · A force of intimidation, Arthur made upper-middle-class liberal Maude brayingly noisy. She towered over her TV husband Walter (Bill Macy) and daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau).
