RIP Betty White
Betty White died just a couple of weeks short of her 100th birthday, and as far as I can tell she was healthy to the end and died in her sleep. Here’s a fairly comprehensive piece about her life.
White was a fixture on TV for many decades, and she had great great dimples. I first remember her from the show “Password,” which I loved as a child, and then “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” where she played the sweetly venomous Sue Ann. Then of course “Golden Girls.”
From the article:
“I’m the luckiest person in the world. My life is divided in absolute half: half animals, half show business,” White once told TV Guide. “I have to stay in show business to pay for my animal work!”
RIP.
My wife knew her from early days of TV in Los Angeles. My wife appeared on a local TV show called “Webster Webfoot” when she was a child. Betty White was in a local sitcom at the same time in the 1940s. She was a lovely person.
She was adorable on Life With Elizabeth, which I watched as a kid. Some episodes are available on YouTube.
While I was getting ready for services at church yesterday evening, a garrulous gentleman I know socially came up to me to inform me about her passing. He put it to me as a ‘very important Greek’ had died. (The fellow is a real Hellenic-booster type, but friendly.) May her memory be eternal.
She must have been in good health until the end. People magazine is on the shelf with cover story “Betty White at 100”. They already recorded her 100th Birthday celebration for showing in movie theaters on her birthday Jan 17th. She was tweeting about it as recently as the 28th of December. Just didn’t quite make it. I can only hope to live to 99, in good enough health to be cognizant and mobile, and to die suddenly of natural causes with people celebrating me. That’s a good way to go.
Philip Sells, does your friend promote Windex also?
Hehe – no, he’s not that stereotypical. 🙂
(Aha, ‘stereotypical’ – ‘stereoma’ + ‘typos’ – is Greek word, you see!)
At that age, anything can go wrong suddenly. Probably a stroke or embolism of some sort.
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/01/rest-in-peace-betty.html
Funny picture of a young Betty, RIP you gave us lots of laughs
I don’t get it: Betty White’s death is getting far more attention than that of Olivia de Havilland, a far more significant actress, who died at 104 a couple of years ago.
David:
I think a lot more people these days are familiar with Betty White, who was much more recently active on TV. She was a personality who became beloved. That was not true of de Havilland, who – although she was in big movies like “Gone With the Wind” – was of a much more distant era, and not a well-known personality.
I loved her line of a few years ago regarding Facebook: “I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.”
…and “ Gone with the Wind” probably offends the woking dead. At the height of the 2020 summer riots there was a suggestion floating around that all the old plantation houses be destroyed to fight racism.
People’s somewhat premature cover:
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But I’m sure the story is lovely and Betty would have been pleased.