Another weekend hoves into view...
...and it would have been the peerless Betty White's birthday today! We miss her. But, this is no time to be sad, it's time to party! And...
...Thank Disco It's Friday!
A classic.
Betty Marion White Ludden (17th January 1922 - 31st December 2021)
Life will never be quite the same without her.
"Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!"
"Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not. All my life, even as a kid, I have preferred men older than I am. Unfortunately, today I don't think there is anyone older than I am!"
"Let's say I meet someone I find attractive. I have to keep reminding myself of how old I am, because I don't feel like I'm that old. I fight the urge to flirt and try to shape up. No fool like an old fool."
"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humour in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."
“My answer to anything under the sun, like ‘What have you not done in the business that you’ve always wanted to do?’ is ‘Robert Redford’.”
"I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise."
"I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are."
"My muffin hasn't had a cherry since 1939!"
"I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple."
"Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?"
“I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.”
RIP, Betty Marion White Ludden (17th January 1922 - 31st December 2021)
It's "Betty White Day" again!
Our favourite role model and Patron Saint blows out [if she has the puff] 99 candles on her cake today.
Remarkably, she has chalked up 82 years on screen, and remains the holder in the Guinness Book of Records of the title “Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female)” in the world!
Let's hand over to the lady herself for some words of wisdom...
All hail, Betty Marion White Ludden (born 17th January 1922)!
Eternal thanks to Marc over at Deep Dish blog for this one!
[PS the hunk in the advert is model James Ellis]
Betty White made her name back in the innocent days when TV stars knew their place. ‘We considered ourselves lucky to be on the box, never complained if a critic didn’t like us, dressed modestly and were always on our best behaviour in public,’ she recalls primly.Read the whole fab article
Now she’s 89, a big name for more than 40 years with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls and Malcolm In The Middle, and she doesn’t have much time for today’s celebrities.
The drinking, the misbehaving and the endless self-analysis...she can’t bear any of it. "They party too much, don’t learn their lines, are unprofessional and they grumble about everything. I think they are terribly ungrateful," says Betty, her eyes flashing.
While single, she still has an eye for the gentlemen. "Have I ever?" she giggles excitedly. "You never outgrow that! I am not one of those ladies who lunch with other ladies. I like guys best."