# America's TV Sweetheart Is 90 Today (1/17/12)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 17, 2012, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-tv-sweetheart-is-90-today-1-17-12/609782 "2012-01-17T10:07:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![BeaMyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-tv-sweetheart-is-90-today-1-17-12/609782/1 "2012-01-17T10:07:42Z")

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Betty White, celebrates her 90th birthday today.

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> TV veteran Betty White has a big reason to celebrate on Tuesday – America’s favourite Golden Girl turns 90… White boasts a successful career, which now spans seven decades.
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> And she doesn’t appear to be slowing down with age - on Monday night bosses at U.S. network NBC paid tribute to the legend’s career by airing a star-studded TV special, which featured Hugh Jackman and Carol Burnett, among others, paying tribute to the birthday girl..

Link to article

[http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/tv/2012/01/16/19253011.html](http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/tv/2012/01/16/19253011.html)

I know a lot of people think she is getting overexposed but I still can’t get enough of the lady

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-tv-sweetheart-is-90-today-1-17-12/609782/2 "2012-01-17T11:19:03Z")

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I don’t think I could get tired of her. She’s everything I like about women from my particular geographic area _and_ she’s hilarious. I think she and Dick Van Dyke would have been the perfect parents, and Carl Reiner could have been the crazy uncle who lived in the basement. I hope they all live forever.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-tv-sweetheart-is-90-today-1-17-12/609782/3 "2012-01-17T13:12:58Z")

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She seems to be getting raunchier as she gets older. At this point, it just seems a question of whether she’ll live long enough to do porn.

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-tv-sweetheart-is-90-today-1-17-12/609782/4 "2012-01-17T16:11:44Z")

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the stuff she is best known for where shows i didn’t watch though clips i’ve seen with her were very good.

when she was on Boston Legal, The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live she was a hoot.

she can do the same type of character and it doesn’t get old because she does it so well with good lines.

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**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-tv-sweetheart-is-90-today-1-17-12/609782/5 "2012-01-17T16:15:13Z")

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Happy Birthday Betty!  
(I saw most of that special… it was really really funny) I hope she lives to be a hundred.