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Betty White dies at 99

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Legendary actress, producer, animal-rights activist and all-around sweetheart Betty White died Friday at the age of 99, TMZ reports.

In this week’s People cover story celebrating White’s approaching centennial (she was to turn 100 on Jan. 17), the icon said, “I’m so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age. It’s amazing.”

The Oak Park, Ill., native — best known for playing mantrap Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973-77) and ditzy Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls (1985-92) — got her big break on the small screen in 1949, when she began co-hosting Al Jarvis’ live variety show, Hollywood on Television. Just two years later, she was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy Award and co-founded her own production company, which, a year after that, created Life With Elizabeth, a syndicated comedy showcasing one of her Hollywood on Television characters.

Though White broke into feature films in 1962 and went on to appear in successful movies such as Lake Placid (1999) and The Proposal (2009), it was on the small screen that she found her greatest successes — often just by being herself. During her almost two-decade run as the hostess of the Tournament of Roses Parade, she became a fixture on both late-night talk shows and daytime game shows — in particular Password, whose host, Allen Ludden, she married in 1963.

After winning back-to-back Emmys in 1975 and ’76 for her portrayal of “The Happy Homemaker” on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White starred in her own sitcom, the short-lived Betty White Show, and began a 10-year stint as the hostess of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1983, she became the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host (for Just Men!) and started recurring on Mama’s Family as Ellen Harper Jackson, the snooty character she’d originated on The Carol Burnett Show.

When The Golden Girls ended its run in 1992, White — who’d won the 1986 Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series and earned six more nominations for her work as sunny Rose — joined Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty on the short-lived spin-off The Golden Palace. But, whether she had a regular role, White never seemed to slow down. Between guest spots on everything from The John Larroquette Show (which netted her another Emmy in 1993) to Bones (2015), she tackled recurring parts on Boston Legal (2005-08) and The Bold and the Beautiful (2006), and scored another Emmy for hosting Saturday Night Live (2010).

That same year, White turned a one-off appearance in the pilot for Hot in Cleveland into a five-year run as bawdy Elka Ostrovsky. As if that wasn’t enough, from 2012-14, she also hosted and executive-produced Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, which allowed seniors to prank young whippersnappers, and earned a Grammy for the spoken-word recording of her best-seller, If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t).

Among her other accolades are a Lifetime Achievement Award (presented at the 2015 Daytime Emmys), a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (right next to Ludden’s) and inclusion (as of 2014) in the Guinness World Records book as the record-holder for Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female).
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Source: https://tvline.com/2021/12/31/betty-white-dead-golden-girls-star-dies/

Fuck you, 2021.
 
Man one final gut punch to 2021. I really haven't seen Golden Girls in a long long time, but I watch a lot of the Buzzr Network and she was such a fixture on the various game shows like Password, Match Game, and Tattletales. She now can reunite with her husband in heaven.

RIP Mrs. White.
 
Normally when somebody so long-lived passes, I'm inclined to offer on a positive note that they had a good run. But between the proximity of her 100th birthday and the thing she was most famous for in recent years being her longevity and continued activity, this feels a little more tragic.
 
:( This one hurts. Grew up watching her in the Golden Girls and other shows over the years. She taught me how to be kind, thoughtful and how to tell a good joke. Thank you so much, Betty White and RIP.
 
Great in all the well known roles of course (MTM, Golden Girls, Hot In Cleveland), but Betty was also lights out on My Name Is Earl as the "Witch Lady" (Patty the daytime hooker's mother).
 
RIP!

She was awesome in this...
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She's having cheesecake with the other Golden Girls now.
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Oh no! :( This is really sad news... one last kick in the gut from 2021.

Betty was an inspiration, and will definitely be missed. The world is a little emptier without her. My condolences to her friends and loved ones.
 
The Old Mixer said:
Normally when somebody so long-lived passes, I'm inclined to offer on a positive note that they had a good run. But between the proximity of her 100th birthday and the thing she was most famous for in recent years being her longevity and continued activity, this feels a little more tragic.
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Yeah, all she had to do was hang on for two more weeks. R.I.P, Mrs White. You were awesome.
 
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God damn it. Just two more weeks until her 100th.

What an incredible woman--a pioneer in television, an activist, and damn funny. She was the first woman to produce a national TV show, the first woman to star in a sitcom, the first TV producer to hire a female director, and the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination.

She kicked ass.
 
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