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<\/p>\nLos Angeles (tca\/dpa) – Betty White, perhaps the most beloved actress and personality of her and several other generations, died Friday, New Year’s Eve, 17 days short of what would have been her 100th birthday \u2014 a landmark already being celebrated in media and social media.<\/p>\n
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Depending on where you joined White’s seven-plus-decade journey through show business \u2014 at every stage of which she managed to define a role for a Woman Her Age that was also uniquely and unmistakably Betty White \u2014 you might know her first as a pioneer of television talk, variety and situation comedy; host of Rose and Macy’s parades; a smart, sparky game show panelist; a reliably unbridled and funny talk show guest; dark-hearted \u00abHappy Homemaker\u00bb Sue Ann Nivens on \u00abThe Mary Tyler Show\u00bb; sweet Rose Nylund on \u00abThe Golden Girls\u00bb; romantically active Elka Ostrovsky on \u00abHot in Cleveland\u00bb; a soap opera villain on \u00abThe Bold and the Beautiful\u00bb; or Ryan Reynolds’ grandmother in \u00abThe Proposal.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Or countless other places, from music videos to commercials, from hosting \u00abWWE Raw\u00bb to hosting \u00abSaturday Night Live.\u00bb Her credits, including at least three titled \u00abThe Betty White Show,\u00bb her awards and historical firsts, including making tap dancer and singer Arthur Duncan the first Black member of a variety show cast (on the first of those \u00abBetty White\u00bb shows), will be mentioned many times many places in the coming days, and only fractionally accounted here. But the great scope of her work, the number of uses to which her talent was put year in and year out, are tribute to her agreed-upon cultural necessity, to the general recognition of her particular sneaky genius. On both \u00abThe Mary Tyler Moore Show\u00bb and \u00abHot in Cleveland,\u00bb her character was originally meant to appear only once. But the power of White demanded her return.<\/p>\n
Graced with bright eyes and a wide, dimpled smile, she radiated delight \u2014 delight to be working, delight to be alive, delight in conversation, delight in animals, but also delight in wickedness. She could turn a lilting voice to sharp ends, and a combination of these effects applied in different proportions, of innocence masking experience and experience informing innocence, would serve her through her career.<\/p>\n
Although White appeared in several movies, television was her medium, and her association with it ran back past its commercial beginnings \u2014 her first appearance was in 1939, on an experimental Los Angeles channel, as a recent high school graduate, dancing with a classmate to \u00abThe Merry Widow Waltz.\u00bb When TV found its legs a decade later, White, who had some small success in radio in the meantime, was there, co-hosting (and later hosting solo) an ad-libbed five-and-a-half-hour, six-day-a-week program called \u00abHollywood on Television.\u00bb A sketch from a nighttime version of the show became White’s first situation comedy, \u00abLife With Elizabeth,\u00bb which (in another first) she co-produced; her character is not a ditz or a clown, but an intelligent woman in a knockabout but equal partnership with her husband, and her performance remains remarkably fresh and natural.<\/p>\n
This early work gave her a thorough understanding of what it means to live on camera, and the intimacy it creates. Watch any of her many, always rewarding talk show appearances \u2014 she will turn from the host to sell a remark straight to the audience, bringing you in, making a bond. Her conversation was casual; her jokes subtle but structured. (Showing Johnny Carson the handwritten manuscript of a novel she had written at 11: \u00abI found something I got a bang out of \u2014 [turning to the camera, apologetically] I mean a kick out of. [A beat out of smiling.] Just reminiscing.\u00bb There is never a sense that she is anything less than perfectly at ease, as a performer or as a person.<\/p>\n
Putting risque remarks or dirty words in the mouths of older people is a cheap ticket to an easy laugh. But one never felt that White, who liked to play, in a deadpan way, off a reputation for sauciness \u2014 she was, she said, a person whose mind ran naturally to puns, and she was not above getting a laugh from a \u00abWhat the hell\u00bb or bleeped bit of dialogue or a leering glance \u2014 was a pawn in these matters. Indeed, one felt she was always ahead of that game. That at 8 years old she wrote a Frank L. Baum-inspired screenplay called \u00abTrouble in Paradoz,\u00bb featuring Mae West running loose over the rainbow, seems to presage much that followed.<\/p>\n
As White grew older \u2014 \u00abaged\u00bb does not seem at all the right word \u2014 she began to represent something additional: a dream of what one’s senior years might look like, a standard-bearer not for youth but youthfulness, of continued work and undiminished powers. \u00abIt’s incredible that I’m still in this business and you are still putting up with me,\u00bb she said, being paid tribute at the 2018 Emmy Awards. But the pleasure was all ours.<\/p>\n
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