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Sara Gilbert

TV Alert: "TV Land Awards" air this Sunday

As StuntDouble told you earlier this week, last Sunday’s filming of the TV Land Awards gave some well-deserved props to our favorite Girls of Gold.

After the reminder of some of the reasons we still love Dorothy, Blanche and Rose, you’ll be happy to know that you can watch the award show on TV Land this Sunday, June 15, at 9 p.m. EST. And just in case seeing the Golden Girls isn’t enough motivation for you to watch (and, if that’s the case, what’s wrong with you?), here are seven more reasons to tune in.

1. The host.

Could Vanessa Williams be any more beautiful? Just. Wow.

2. Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

All of those words are in spell check – as if we needed proof that Laverne & Shirley changed the world.

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Women who slay us

On any given day, the Lifetime Movie Network will play a made-for-TV movie that features a woman scorned, and sometimes, she will kill to get what she wants. But so often, those women are killing for a man they are dangerously obsessed with, and I just can’t relate.

But MSN Movies currently has a count down of film’s famous fatale femmes, including The Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz, Maleficent of Sleeping Beauty and, my personal favorite, Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery. While I can’t relate with these women either, I can understand why they might take issues with the ones they love to hate (Dorothy killed the Witch’s sister — that’s certainly worth some cinematic revenge.)

MSN’s list got me thinking of a few other favorite characters that happened to be murderers (or perhaps just misunderstood.)

Hedy in Single White Female

Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Bridget Fonda’s new roommate who gets obsessively weird in the worst way. As Hedy, Leigh perfectly began to become a creep, emulating Allie (Fonda) in every way — as if stealing her signature auburn pixie cut wasn’t enough. On her quest to become Allie’s doppelganger, she manages to kill her boyfriend, her neighbor, and her poor puppy. … continue reading

 
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