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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. :bighug:
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.

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There are worse role models than Ms. Ball. :lovestruck:
Out from under. :thumbsup:
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Just saw that tonight, NBC will re-run the Saturday Night Live episode from 2010 where Betty White hosted.
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Mrich wrote: Sat Jan 01, 2022 6:54 pm Just saw that tonight, NBC will re-run the Saturday Night Live episode from 2010 where Betty White hosted.
From The Hollywood Reporter -
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.
I remember the Facebook campaign. I hadn't realized that she had been asked to host previously.
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RIP.
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I already knew Betty White was a beautiful person inside and out, but I happened across this YouTube video and learned some things I had not known. I love her even more now.

Among the things I had not known, there is a wonderful story about Arthur Duncan, a black singer and tap dancer who credits Betty White with giving him his start in television. He had a recurring role on one of her shows and after people in southern states complained about his presence on the show she started featuring him more often. Her show was cancelled as a result of the backlash, but her response, on air, was so inspiring. That story begins at around 5:49 on the video.

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I forgot about this.
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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pipistrelle wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 11:07 pm I forgot about this.
that made me cry, but in a good way.
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Sorry, I just had to post one more about our beloved Betty White.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
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This made my day, thanks for posting! :thumbsup:
pipistrelle wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 11:07 pm I forgot about this.
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Oh no! What in the heck is going on?!!!?!??!?! :brokenheart: :brokenheart: :brokenheart:

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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
From the twitter comments on that thread ... this is the backstory of that Obama tribute to Betty White on her 90th. Worth a watch. :lol:

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That was fun. Thank neon 💕
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RIP, Mr. Poitier.
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RVInit wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:19 am Oh no! What in the heck is going on?!!!?!??!?! :brokenheart: :brokenheart: :brokenheart:
Old people are dying.
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Whatever4 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:04 pm
RVInit wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:19 am Oh no! What in the heck is going on?!!!?!??!?! :brokenheart: :brokenheart: :brokenheart:
Old people are dying.
Oh. I hear this happens occasionally.
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https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... ead-at-71/
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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Dobie!!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/dwayn ... li=BBnb7Kz

Great show with a great supporting cast: Bob Denver, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus.
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Loved that show. Guess Sheila James Kuehl is the only surviving cast member.
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:(

I loved that show, not just the regular cast, but such fun when we got guest appearances from Warren Beatty and Ryan O'Neil.
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