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Betty White

March 1, 2012 by · Comments Off on Betty White 

Betty White, White and the former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist, whose real name is Saul Hudson, appear in a commercial promoting the Living Amphibian, Invertebrates and Reptiles (LAIR) exhibit.

In the commercial, which can be seen below, White and Slash can be seen staring at a pair of frogs.

“You can tell which one is male or female by the dark pads on their fingers,” White tells Slash.

“Really? That’s cool,” Slash replies.

The exhibit is set to open on March 8.

White, a noted animal lover, has had a long relationship with the Los Angeles Zoo and was honored at the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association’s 40th Annual Beastly Ball in June 2010 for her dedication to the organization for 40 years. She is also a co-chair of the organization.

“Betty White is synonymous with the Los Angeles Zoo,” said GLAZA President Connie Morgan in a statement at the time. “Her heart and her advocacy for the animals that share our earth help drive us to excellence.”

Slash appeared at the event and even posed for photos with White while holding a snake. A video of their encounter can also be seen below.

In early February, the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association partnered with TV Land to name the zoo’s newest baby orangutan after White’s “Hot In Cleveland” character Elka.

Betty White Birthday

January 16, 2012 by · Comments Off on Betty White Birthday 

Betty White BirthdayBetty White Birthday, Betty White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and television personality. With a career spanning seven decades, she is best known to modern audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls. She currently stars as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland.

White has won seven Emmy Awards (six for acting) and has received 20 Emmy nominations over the course of her career, including being the first woman ever to receive an Emmy for game show hosting (for the short-lived Just Men!) and is the only female to have an Emmy in all female performing comedic categories. In May 2010, White became the oldest person to guest-host Saturday Night Live, for which she also received a Primetime Emmy Award. White also holds the record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances – her first was in 1951 and her most recent was in 2011, a span of 60 years – and has become the oldest nominee as of 2011[update], aged 89. She has made regular appearances on the game shows Password and Match Game and played recurring roles on Mama’s Family, Boston Legal, The Bold and the Beautiful and Community.

Betty White Saturday Night Live

May 9, 2010 by · Comments Off on Betty White Saturday Night Live 

Betty White Saturday Night LiveBetty White Saturday Night Live:All it took to revitalize a comedy show 35 years of age, was the presence of a woman of 88 years of age.

On Saturday, after more than 70 years in show business, six Emmy Awards and an improbable campaign of Facebook, Betty White finally shot him in the hosting of “Saturday Night Live.”

Historically, “Saturday Night Live” does not always come through its most highly publicized hosts students from the age of the 1990 series of the era can remember episodes with Nancy Kerrigan and Jim Carrey were classified as very low, but comedy, and an organized program from March by Zach Galifianakis not quite reach its full potential. But Saturday’s show was one of the strongest outings of the season. With energy, enthusiasm and plain old laughs, Ms. White and “SNL cast and crew (including a set of recent alumni) more than delivered on this promise much promoted episode.

Although Ms. White’s confession in his opening monologue that he felt uncomfortable with live TV, which was home to “Saturday Night Live” format. She appeared in every sketch of the show and seemed game for almost anything, if she was playing a mogul muffins naughty or a respondent inadvertently census crazy. Even appeared on “Weekend Update” as an older rival Molly Shannon character Sally O’Malley, and a digital short made a punk-rock version of the song “The Golden Girls theme (with a little help from a stunt double, I’m assuming).

Day-themed episode of the Mother, who brought Ms. Shannon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch also was a rare occasion in which most men “SNL” cast took a backseat to his wife, Ms. Shannon and Ms. Gasteyer has to bring back his bone-dry NPR parody, delicious dish, “Ms. Rudolph made a return appearance as Whitney Houston and Ms. Poehler was temporarily re-seated to the “Weekend Update” desk. But do not look for regular Jenny Slate series, Abby Elliott or Peter Nasim, who were largely shut out of range. (When even Ms. Fey, the “30 Rock” star and former “Saturday Night Live” head writer, can only be offered on a couple of skits, you know you have too much talent.)

If you watch carefully, you may have noticed that many of parodies on Saturday were simply new variations on recurring “SNL” bits as MacGruber “or” parody of Lawrence Welk Show. ” (Hulu.com also has skits that did not reach the issue, including “Debbie Downer” and “Bronx Beat.”)

And if you really want to get Picayune of this, most of Ms. White jokes was reduced to some version of it (a) saying something totally inappropriate for their age, or (b) make a kind of subtle – or blatant – sexual advances. But really, who cares, when many of them worked?

(Perhaps the one thing about the show that absolutely no work was the first musical performance by Jay-Z, in which he paid a long tribute to himself by joining his songs “Public Service Announcement”, “99 Problems” and “Empire State of Mind “in a mega-mix. At least had the good sense to devote his second presentation to Ms. White.)

The only real disappointment of the evening was when the clock struck 1:00 a.m. and Mrs. White and the cast had to step on stage to greet his goodbyes. If Facebook could make a successful campaign for Ms. White a “Saturday Night Live” host, you can now start the movement to make it a permanent cast member?

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