She would have turned 85 on July 25. Forever famous as Sophia on television’s The Golden Girls, but it was in Broadway’s Torch Song Trilogy (1982) that I first laid eyes on Estelle Getty. Thereafter, she was doomed to serve up variations on the cantankerous little old lady, but what’s to complain? After all, it took 40 years for her to hit the big time. And the girl was funny. RIP.
