Mine, too, although she died young. My mom looked like Lucille Ball. Flaming red hair, bright blue eyes, heart-shaped lips, always dressed to the nines.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:50 am Andy-
My mother was a classic beauty also too. She never had cosmetic surgery and was still beautiful at 85 when she died.
I hope your spirits lift soon.
From The Hollywood Reporter -
I remember the Facebook campaign. I hadn't realized that she had been asked to host previously.According to executive producer Lorne Michaels, he’d asked White to host the show only to be turned down three times. She finally came around following a Facebook campaign that went viral.
From the twitter comments on that thread ... this is the backstory of that Obama tribute to Betty White on her 90th. Worth a watch.RVInit wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:25 pm Sorry, I just had to post one more about our beloved Betty White.
https://twitter.com/d_ofria/status/1477655060050235393
Old people are dying.
Civil rights lawyer, Harvard professor Lani Guinier dead at 71
Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died. She was 71.
Guinier died Friday, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning said in a message to students and faculty. Her cousin, Sherrie Russell-Brown, said in an email that the cause was complications due to Alzheimer’s disease.
Guinier became the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard law school when she joined the faculty in 1998. Before that she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school. She had previously headed the voting rights project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1980s and served during President Jimmy Carter’s administration in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which she was later nominated to head.
“I endured the personal humiliation of being vilified as a madwoman with strange hair — you know what that means — a strange name and strange ideas, ideas like democracy, freedom, and fairness that mean all people must be equally represented in our political process,” Guinier said. “But lest any of you feel sorry for me, according to press reports the president still loves me. He just won’t give me a job.”
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