Born in the small Illinois town to Horace and Tess, Betty Marion White has amassed an amazing and lengthy resume including seven Emmy awards. From 1922 to 2010 the accolades continue to pile up as AP named her Entertainer of the Year in 2010. “It’s ridiculous,” White says of the honor, in an interview from her home in Los Angeles. “They haven’t caught on to me, and I hope they never do.”

Humility and grace…White is an expert and model of both.

How does an 88 year-old actress from “The Golden Girls”, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” win over the audiences in 2010? First,  her success on the new show “Hot in Cleveland” has critics raving. Most important though, is her appearance on Saturday Night Live, a response to a Facebook petition, which was described by Entertainment Weekly as:

“Betty was funny, vulgar and totally charming.”

One snippet from the SNL show is the popular “Delicious Dish” as Betty portrays Florence Dusty and she has some amazing muffins:

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The feisty Sue Ann Nivens (the Happy Homemaker) from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to the naive and kindhearted Rose on “The Golden Girls” to appearing on game shows “I’ve Got a Secret” or “Match Game”: Betty White has done it all.

So to honor White on her birthday, I compiled a long list of clips and examples of her greatness to share with friends, to put a smile on your face or remember forgotten moments from an amazing career.

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“Life with Elizabeth”: This was a 1950s competitor to “I Love Lucy” and White portrays a similar befuddled, mischievious housewife.

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”: A short and sweet funny scene nicknamed the ‘Snow Scene’ from January 1977.

“Password Plus” – What a better example of her Betty on a game show than an appearance with the aforementioned funny lady Lucille Ball.

Tonight Show: Betty White, in her first TV appearance after the death of her husband Allen Ludden some two months earlier, appears as herself and as Jane to Carson’s Tarzan (Tommy Newsom has a walk-on as Boy) in a comedy sketch directly parodying Bo Derek’s version of “Tarzan” (1981) which had just been released and was considered one of the worst movies of all time. Source: IMDB

Betty White in the Snickers Commercial – “Game” needs no introduction

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“Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on”

“All right, now back that mother up.” – While giving dance lessons to Jon Hamm in Jimmy Fallon’s 2010 Emmy opening.

“All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.”

“Oh, I don’t need sleep. I just went to my hotel and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.” – 2010 New York Magazine interview

“I think we’re losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don’t care whether it’s ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.”

“That’s not what your girlfriend says” – 2010 Snickers Super Bowl commerical

“She said they’re OK, but the house is flooded up to the second floor right now.”

“I’m also on Facebook and the Twitter.” – Grandma Bunny in “You Again”

“We’ve been real sensitive to that since we saw the stand Kamehameha Schools took. But even though they took that stand, they still lost this ruling.”

“If one gets lucky I bet they do.” – answer to the question “Do 88-year-old’s still have sex?” from Barbara Walters 2010

“I majored in English in college, … but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I’d always call Nelson. He would always laugh and say he needed to be on my payroll.”

“Gays love old ladies.” – Parade magazine interview

“I feel like it’s what God wants me to do. I know how it feels and how devastated people can be.”

“I don’t know, Mr. Winger. Last time I called on you I got what the Maku Maku call ‘dirt-roaded.‘” – appearance on “Community”

“He loves the fact that he is kind of a star in all this. He’s always wanted to be on TV.”

“I love being able to contribute to medical education and science.”

“They’ve kind of surrounded him by some old friends of the audience, … so that the audience will feel secure and they can concentrate on Alfred.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1220/Betty-White-voted-AP-entertainer-of-the-year-for-2010

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/05/09/saturday-night-live-betty-white-2/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-11/betty-whites-11-funniest-moments/p/

If you’ve wandered down this far on the page, then you are either really, really bored; stalking me on DOB or a maniac Betty White fan, so I put a treat here for you…a reward so to speak.

Mrs. Bickerman: I’m rooting for the crocodile. I hope he swallows your friends whole. You might want to arrest me for that too. Is that a crime? To wish the chewing of law enforcement?

Mrs. Bickerman: Murders and rapes in the city, people bomb planes, can the police stop ‘em? No! But feed one little cow to a crocodile…
Sheriff Hank Keough: You’re gonna stay right here until the police show. You’re under full house arrest.
Mrs. Bickerman: Thank you, officer f***-meat!

Mrs. Bickerman: I’ll sue you!
Jack Wells: Go ahead.
Mrs. Bickerman: You can’t take a cow by eminent domain!
Sheriff Hank Keough: We just did.
Jack Wells: We won’t let her get hurt, Ma’am.
Mrs. Bickerman: You’re all c***suckers! I knew it first, I just didn’t want to say it!

My first effort at “blogging” before it was called “blogging” was a Pop Culture, Comic Book column at CrazedFanboy.com.

A lot sure has changed since these days.

Due to the support/pressure from my DOB comrades, Splash Page was resurrected to publish Pop Culture topics and the “State of the Nation” will continue to deal with politics and heavy issues.

To kick off the new year, 2011, I started a National column for Examiner.com discussing Comic Book Movies: http://www.examiner.com/comic-book-movies-in-national/brandon-jones

Beginning in December of 2010, I began writing on Examiner.com, check out my articles there: http://www.examiner.com/comic-books-in-tampa-bay/brandon-jones

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