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ποΈ 3 January 2022
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0:00.0 | Actress and icon Betty White died Friday at the age of 99. Her career as a comic actress |
0:11.4 | on TV, on radio, in movies and more lasted more than 80 years. |
0:16.6 | Among many other things Betty White was a trailblazer, a record-setter, and one of the most |
0:21.2 | venerated figures in the history of television. I'm Linda Holmes. |
0:25.6 | And I'm Stephen Thompson. Today we are remembering Betty White on pop culture happy hour from NPR. |
0:38.0 | It's just us today. Betty White died Friday, just 18 days shy of her 100th birthday. Her |
0:44.6 | career on television dates back to 1939 before most households even had a TV, and she was |
0:51.3 | a constant presence on television dating back to the early 50s. She hosted variety and |
1:03.8 | talk shows. She appeared on three different TV projects called the Betty White Show, and |
1:09.2 | she earned eight Emmy awards for a wide range of work. She was probably best known for |
1:14.6 | two major TV roles. In the 70s, she played the lusty sex pot Su-Anne Nivens on the |
1:20.9 | Mary Tyler Moore Show, and in the 80s and 90s, she played sweet but confused Rose Nyland |
1:26.7 | on the Golden Girls. |
1:27.9 | Never fear Dr. Rose's here. I made you both an old-fashioned, sad old-off tonic. Guaranteed |
1:35.0 | to get you back on your feet and put hair on your chest. That's the one nasty side effect |
1:39.7 | they could never figure out. Betty White popped up everywhere. She did |
1:44.2 | comedy's dramas, soap operas, talk shows, and many, many game shows, which we will talk |
1:49.9 | about. She wrote books. She hosted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She raised a lot |
1:55.0 | of money for animal welfare charities and much more. In 2010, when she was 88, she became |
2:01.1 | the oldest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. Linda, after all that, I still don't |
2:06.6 | know where to begin on Betty White's legacy. |
2:08.8 | Yeah, you know, it's funny. As I listened to you do that intro. It was like, yeah, I forgot |
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