A Toast To Ms White!

December 31, 2021• byMichael Strangeways

I’m guessing this not particularly flattering ornament that hangs on my Christmas tree might have contributed to iconic actress Betty White’s “bridge crossing” today at the age of 99 just a few weeks before her 100th birthday…what were they thinking?! Rose was never FAT!!!

Meanwhile, let’s not be too sad…the world was lucky enough to have this Great Lady in it for over 100 years (life begins at conception remember!) and let’s just celebrate the wonderful life she had and the years of joy she brought to us for so many decades. Not only in our favorite TV show, The Golden Girls, but as the divinely bitchy Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show…Betty was also the final, regular cast member of THAT show to pass away as well. Not to mention all the other great roles she had in television, films, on stage and in our hearts.

A toast to the Divine Ms White!

Salud!

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.