Betty White, The “Grandmother of The Nation” – Obama as a Well-wisher to The 90s

Betty White, the “grandmother of the nation” – Obama as a well-wisher to the 90s

You are still pulled a covered wagon to California. Have you will tonight, a lot of jokes about your age to go through you, “said.: Then, even the art of acting was invented” At the beginning of the birthday party, a tribute to the TV networks NBC to Betty White, warned Amy Poehler, the birthday girl “Exstar of the satire troupe “Saturday Night Live” for 90-year-old doyenne of Hollywood. “The good thing is that tomorrow you will have all forgotten.”

In a gala celebrating the U.S. television, the quirky, funny old woman, the game show legend, the passionate animal rights activist “Granny of the nation” – which itself, however, has no own children. Dancers swirled around them, the young actor Zachary Levi knelt to marry him. “I want you to be the mother of my children” Before he knew it, he had Betty White expressed a kiss on the lips. “Forget all the young women,” she said.

Morgan Freeman, William Shatner and Hugh Jackman cheered White. On the deposit, the quick-witted 90-year-old was not prepared: In a video recording made in fact even the president as the most prominent one well-wisher. And Barack Obama put it acting talent and the gift of self-irony of the day. In the Oval Office, his office in the White House, He produced a letter – as always gekrakelt with your left hand – in which he asked Betty White to present her birth certificate. For it is hard to believe that they have already reached old age.

It was an ironic reference to his bitter opponents from the ranks of the Tea Party, the doubt persisted since the beginning of his presidency on his birth certificate, issued in August 1961 in Honolulu – and therefore the legitimacy of his election. He has published in the previous year – and critics such as Donald Trump embarrassed to the bone.

A fitting tribute to the actress moved Obama White one-Portrait between the family photos, and he hummed “Thank You for Being a Friend”, the title tune from “The Golden Girls”. With the role of wonderfully naive Rose, a widow from St. Olaf in Minnesota, which established amused with its unintentionally comical stories of her friends living community in Florida, White in the late 1980s, its fame. On the side of Blanche, the faded “Southern Belle”, the gruff Exlehrerin Dorothy and her sarcastic mother, originally from Sicily played Sophia, White is in the hearts of the audience.

The show, a long-distance runner in U.S. television, broke a taboo in TV entertainment: For the first time pensioners were the focus of a sitcom about her love affair and the problems the nation laughed. In recent years, the partners are all dead, “I am the last survivor. This is ironic because I was the oldest of the four of us. Is not that crazy? “

Ever since the “Golden Girls” 20 years ago it took White to cult status. In “Ally McBeal,” “The Simpsons” or “Boston Legal” she appeared in guest roles on the series “Hot in Cleveland,” it belongs to the permanent staff. In the movie she was in “The Proposal” (”The Proposal”) on the side of Sandra Bullock or “You Again” with Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver, the grumpy, old as grandma.

And revered by their female charge any lifted onto a pedestal, White saw an amazing Hollywood comeback, an x-th spring. In a TV commercial for the Super Bowl football player as they landed in the mud, and a Facebook initiative promoted them to the host of the satirical show “Saturday Night Live.” Where else Justin Timberlake, Alec Baldwin, moderate, she delivered a rock version of “Thank You for Being a Friend” from. The 90-year-old is still just to have fun for everyone.