More: Rue McClanahan dies at 76

It’s unlikely that I can say much about the luminous Rue McClanahan, who just passed away, that those who worked with her and knew her have said, other than to add my thanks for the many, many laughs she provided in her role as “The Golden Girls”‘ deliciously haughty Southern bell Blanche Devereaux.

The show’s idea that senior citizens were not only sexually active but, in Blanche’s case, sexually voracious, could have been a grotesque joke. But McClanahan gave Blanche a steely seriousness under her hilarity and sass – She was hot, not only because she was, but because she believed that she was. That determination, armed with that silky voice and absolute confidence in her own prissy superiority made her irresistable. Annoying sometimes, but also irresistable. She made Blanche more than a caricature.

Check out the clip below and tell me I’m wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsiffrahqzo&feature=related

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So this isn’t a commercial, but the Jay-Z intro is pretty impressive, because drum beats = drama, and have that lovely orchestral backing that scream “Important sports documentary moment.” And it doesn’t involve Diddy, which everything seemed to about five years ago, so all the better.

You know what’s not a Super Bowl commercial but that I love anyway? Those surreally cheesy Bedding Barn ads with the weird dude in the cape and the women in the costumes playing drums and the big red barn they’ve been using since 1987. It’s the most consistent “What that higgity was that?” moment in advertising, and it’s so awful you gotta love it. Read the full story