Estelle Getty

The Golden Girls Big Pin
$4.00
Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty were The Golden Girls. Wear them on your blouse or purse on this big 3" pin.

The Golden Girls Color Box Canvas Print - Gallery Wrapped - (16x16 Inches)
$69.99
This is a beautiful stretched canvas print. Total size is approximately 16x16 inches. This stretched box canvas print will look fabulous in any room of your house. Ready to hang, right out of the box!

Deadly Force [VHS]
$6.94
This reasonably predictable little action-thriller-mystery takes many of the cliches and hackneyed plot devices you've seen in other such flicks, and throws 'em at'cha with by-the-numbers regularity. Speakin' of 'by-the-numbers', that's just how I'm gonna format this here review...

1) Let's start with Wings Hauser ("Wings"???)-- who looks like the love child of Michael Keaton and William 'Greatest American Hero" Katt-- as Stony Cooper, a bad@$$ ex-LAPD detective. You know, another entry in a long line of Dirty Harry wanna-bes. Despite his rep as a tough guy (why d'ya think he's called 'Stony'?), our hero also has a bit of a soft side (when he's known as 'Pumice-y'). This duality is put on display at the start of the flick as he confronts and negotiates with a dynamite-laden disgruntled ex-factory worker who's got an ax to grind with his former boss.

2) Oh yes, the reason Stony's an EX-cop is because he broke a few rules too many, and was kicked off the force. This point is emphasized by the less-than-welcome reception he gets from his former fellow enforcers when he returns to L.A. to solve the big 'X-murders' case at the request of an ex-con (the reason this guy's an EX-con is-- ahhh, forget it) he befriended back in the day.

3) Then there's the ex-wife he decides to pay a visit to, and tries to win back with his charming personality. She doesn't go for it initially, but you can tell he's eventually gonna break her down and worm his way back into her heart-- not to mention the hammock she's got set up in the living room of her studio apartment. Which is the setting for the obligatory "letting-the-audience-know-we're-an-item-again" boink scene (the lady who plays the ex wife displays her best acting here). 'Course, you know this is gonna mean nothin' but trouble for wifey down the line (refer to #6 for further details)...

4) It's pretty apparent who the x-killer is when he or she is introduced in the flick. And if you don't know by then, then you should by the time it gets to the whole 'we got the guy... or DID we?' bit that takes up the final half-hour.

5) Since our hero ain't fully convinced the real murderer got waxed, he decides to do some further investigation into the matter-- and uncovers another suspect. This of course leads to...

6) ...the climactic one-on-one battle, as the prime suspect (with wifey as a hostage/human shield) trades bullets and words with Stony before the big 'blow-up' that resolves the issue.

6a) During this phase, ol' Wings gets busted up and shot a couple times, but somehow is still able to follow and stop the menace. You know, the big 'Timex' moment. Oh, how inspirational...

7) Top it all off with the big payoff featuring a humbled LAPD ex-boss (one of the guys who were part of the 'welcome wagon' in #2) trying to figure out just what happened at the scene as the closing credits roll to the tune of some cheesy quasi-inspirational 80s pop-rock tune.

8) 'Late

Thank You for Being a Friend: A Golden Girls Trivia Book
$13.95
I think this was a very sweet thing to do for all serious Golden Girls fans. I was looking for this book for years and it didn't dawn on me to look for it on Amazon. I was pleasantly surprised to find it. When I opened it, I just knew I was gonna know all the answers. Well... not so!! Apparently my memory is rusty on certain things. But it was really fun trying to remember some of the zany antics by these incredibly talented and crazy ladies.