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Jul 22 2008, AP

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,” has died. She was 84.Getty, who suffered from advanced...

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In this Monday, April 28, 2008 file photo, actor Balthazar Getty arrives at The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ presentation of A Conversation with “Brothers & Sisters” , in the North Hollywood area of Los Angeles. Getty has responded to the...