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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

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This thread is for deaths of celebrities in the entertainment business only. No notices about politicians, please. 

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Bastet
Bastet

Piss up a rope, Val Kilmer.  If your physical illness got so bad that your life utterly sucked and no end to that suffering was in sight, so that suicide was or seemed to be the best of the available

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BetterButter
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Olivia Newton-John Has Died At 73

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Cobalt Stargazer

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Damn, damn, DAMN.  And she's on this week's cover of People since she was so close to her hundredth birthday. Two weeks, that's all she needed. Damn.

Goodbye, Betty, you beautiful soul. Generous in spirit and kind of heart, and for all the talk of how she relied on 'dirty old lady' humor in her later years, I'll be watching The Lost Valentine tonight in remebrance, where she brought me to tears more than once.

2021, you suck.

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13 minutes ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

Damn, damn, DAMN.  And she's on this week's cover of People since she was so close to her hundredth birthday. Two weeks, that's all she needed. Damn.

To be honest, all that premature birthday talk was making me uneasy.  RI.P. Ms. White.  

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5 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:

To be honest, all that premature birthday talk was making me uneasy.  RI.P. Ms. White.  

Same. Literally as I was reading all the plans for her big 100th, I thought, "I bet she doesn't make it." 

I'm never too broken up when someone passes away at this age. I just choose to see it as moving on rather than a tragedy. Betty lived a long, full and amazing life and she left us an amazing body of work.

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festivus

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Well this sucks. But way to go out like a boss saying fuck you 2021, I don't even need to see what 2022 brings. 99 is just fine.

It totally is a bummer how we lost so many from the MTM show this year. That's everybody now. 😪

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She didn't quite make it to 100, but she apparently lived a very interesting and full life.  Hearing about her death reminded me of one of my favorite Rose Nylund quotes:

'My mother always used to say--the older you get the better you get. Unless you're a banana.'

RIP Betty

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1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:

FUCK YOU 2021!!!!

Look, I know it was probably her time and nobody really wants to live to 100 and outlive everyone from their younger days, but she was only two weeks away!!!!

Sadly the fates show no mercy for anyone. If her age is counted at the time of pregnancy, which is how the Chinese do it, then Ms. White reached the centennial milestone. 

She was very lucky to live not only a long live, but a full life. She experienced so much and saw a LOT of history and change.

May she Rest In Peace. 

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My TV station has an entertainment show called, "More".  Typically when celebs come to town we ask them to do promos for us (I'm Celebrity X and I always love to get more!).  One day we got to interview Betty White a few years back. 

She agreed to do the promo and said this:

"I'm Betty White and I love to get more...[confused Rose face] or even some!"

  She had everyone in stitches!  Yes the promo ran as is!

My coworkers who were there tell me she was a class act and a true delight!  Nice to hear!

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Blergh

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When Ed Asner died in August and there was NO  recorded comment about what he'd meant to Miss White when she came onboard as Sue Ann who turned the tough ole grizzly Lou Grant into putty, I KNEW it was a bad sign  that she was not in the best of health because how their characters interacted was key to how Sue Ann was received. In fact, before Sue Ann came onboard MTM, Miss White had been somewhat written off as a bland, vanilla joke and  it's likely that she'd have stayed typecast as that the rest of her life and vaunted into obscurity (in spite of being one of the first women to produce her own sitcom Life with Elizabeth [1952]) as well as having produced and  hosted a home show The Betty White Show [1954]). 

Well, now one can imagine that there's nothing to stop Sue Ann from chasing Lou and Murray from zinging her- and Rose from bombarding Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia with St. Olaf stories! 

RIP, Miss White! 

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andromeda331

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I really didn't expect it. Betty lived all the way to 99 and still working I assumed she would be around a few more years. She lived a very full life and so many great parts. Sue Ellen and Rose being her most famous ones. She was really good as both. I'm sure their having a great Mary Tyler Moore and Golden Girls reunion up in Heaven. I'm sure my mom and grandma are happy to meet the entire cast. But it still stinks. I wish she had a few more years down here. Thank you Betty. You were so talented and always be remembered. Rest in Peace.  

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I was just surfing reddit when I came across a post of her and Alex Tebek and at first I thought they put the RIP on the wrong person. Then I did a quick google search and saw it was true :(. 

I kept hearing about her 100 day party and was looking forward to see it. She was only two weeks away from reaching it. RIP Betty White and you were a great inspiration to me and many other people. 

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I am legitimately crying.  Ms. White meant so much to so many, and showed that elder people can not only have fun, but be productive, teach, be gracious while hurting physically, and was an all around beautiful soul.

The world is a much crueler and sadder place without her in it.

RIP Betty.  You certainly deserve it.  And thank you so much for all the years of laughter.

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R.I.P. Betty White.    Truly a life well lived.   

She said she wasn't afraid of death, because she would be reunited with her beloved husband Allen Ludden.    I'm sure there will be so many animals waiting for her too, she championed the rescue of animals.    Her Pet Set show was fantastic.       She always had a lot of rescue dogs, including one that was a friend's retired Seeing Eye dog.     My condolences to her family, friends, and everyone who loved her. 

I stayed up and watched Saturday Night Live, with the 2010 rerun of her last hosting job on the show.   It was fantastic.   

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Lugal

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Well, fuck.

Seriously universe, you couldn't have waited two more weeks?  Betty White was like Stan Lee, one of those fixed points in life that you assume will always be there (intellectually we all know that's not true, but still...)  At least she gets to see Allen again.

C'mon 2022, we really need a good turn here!

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3 minutes ago, AimingforYoko said:

Deciding she wanted to be an actress, White auditioned for several movie studios, who decided she wasn’t photogenic.

She must not have shown them the dimples. How could anyone resist those dimples? 

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Popples

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7 minutes ago, Vermicious Knid said:

George Burns had a show booked for his 100th birthday years in advance. He died about a month short. Maybe they should rethink this kind of victory lap.

George Burns made it to 100 (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), he was just too weak to do his performance:

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When Burns was 96, he had signed a lifetime contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform stand-up comedy there, which included the guarantee of a show on his centenary, January 20, 1996. When that day actually came, however, he was too weak to deliver the planned performance. He released a statement joking how he would love for his 100th birthday to have "a night with Sharon Stone."

 

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While Betty White will be remembered primarily for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, she was also pitch perfect on The Carol Burnett Show playing Eunice's sister Ellen in the "Family" sketches.

 

 

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Someone said we lost America’s grandmother and that is so true for a lot of us. 99 years of being unproblematic with absolutely no public scandals whatsoever-amazing! At least she was well aware of how much we all appreciated and loved her and were rooting for her. 

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I love Sue Ann, and i love Rose Nylund, but i feel the urge to watch Password, Pyramid and Match Game episodes that feature Betty. The wit and brilliance of Betty White in game shows are truly unparalleled.

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CrazyInAlabama

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I've read about the speculation about problems on set, but I think it was exaggerated to sell tabloids.   

All four women were consumate professionals, and though they very seldom socialized in their real lives, they seemed to genuinely like each other.  All four participated in animal charities, and other causes.   

I read that on filming days Bea wouldn't go to lunch unless Betty went with her.     They were just very different people who worked together.      

 I'm sure there was rivalry when award season came along, they all seemed to support each other.    

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1 hour ago, Lady Whistleup said:

While we're talking about Betty White, any truth to the rumor that she didn't get on with Bea Arthur?

This has been discussed by White, Rue McClanahan, and one of Arthur's sons (I don't think I've ever come across anything from Arthur herself).

It was Bea who didn't particularly like Betty, as they had very different personalities (Betty's relentless optimism drove Bea nuts sometimes [a general sentiment to which I can thoroughly relate], and Bea was reserved while Betty was gregarious) and, particularly, very different approaches to the work. 

But there wasn't a feud, or really even a true dislike, more an I don't get her thing that generally manifested in eye rolling rather than actual animosity.  The media wanted to uncover "cat fights", but couldn't, because that wasn't what was happening.  They approached life and work differently, but kept it professional on set and just didn't interact much off set.  They both loved animals, though (as did Rue); there was some common ground. 

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Ms Blue Jay

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2 hours ago, Lady Whistleup said:

While we're talking about Betty White, any truth to the rumor that she didn't get on with Bea Arthur?

I'm pretty sure even Bea Arthur's son said that Bea didn't treat Betty very well.

I rewatched "The Proposal" last year in January for Betty White's 99th birthday!

I really enjoyed all of "Hot in Cleveland" too, even though "The Golden Girls" is my favourite.  A lot of people don't mention "The Golden Palace", but honestly, I liked it!  Don Cheadle was in it too!

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Bastet

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15 minutes ago, WendyCR72 said:

Loved this Golden Girls scene. Jenny Lewis, who played the teddy-bear-stealing demon seed, posted it:

I love that scene, too.  And good for Lewis posting it in tribute, especially since she'd relied on it for her music video:

 

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While in a YouTube rabbit hole of Betty White videos, I was reminded of her hilarious guest stint on Ugly Betty, opposite Vanessa Williams's Wilhelmina Slater:

So many good lines ("Well I adore them...except for the few sickos who write lesbian fan-fiction about me and Bea Arthur" LOL) and little bits (I love her moving St. Pierre's arm down so that he doesn't block her from the camera) in the few minutes of this subplot.

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14 minutes ago, RealHousewife said:

I finally watched It's a Wonderful Life after all these years. Very sad to hear this news.  

 

I've seen this movie several times but not recently and I can't remember the character of  "Little Violet Bick" at all! Time to watch it again clearly!  On the passing of the actress, it was nice to read that she left show business and made a career for herself as a psychologist.  I do feel sorry for child actors who can't move on from their early fame and are miserable because of it but it's so nice to hear about those who managed to get on with their lives and, hopefully, had a good time along the way.

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