Saturday Night Live turns 42 today - Happy birthday to SNL

"Talk about a live show! It's nice to see you, welcome, and thanks for joining us -- live. I’m kinda glad that we’re on at night so that we’re not competing with all the football and baseball games. So many man … Football represents something we are. We are Europe Junior....What was the Europe Game?.... Let's take their land away from them...Football is a ground acquisition game... " ~~ George Carlin, (5/12/37 – 6/22/08) Comedy Icon, activist, actor, and author. Quote from opening line of George Carlin where he hosted the first “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast 10/11/1975. Photo SNL information courtesy of Wikipedia.org; Video below embedded from hulu; SNL 1st Season, 1st Episode; Video George Carlin opening skit, http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-carlin-monologue-1/n8596; SNL monologue script at http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75a.phtml
First SNL broadcast, 10/11/75, featuring first host, George Carlin video

Happy 42nd  SNL! Saturday Night Live may be over the hill  but this skit-driven variety show is still going strong 42 years later making live audiences and TV viewers laugh hard as ever. American late-night live TV sketch comedy/variety, SNL, premiered 42 years ago (10/11/75) on NBC.

Originally called "Saturday Night, the opening sketch roughly 5 minutes begins with a special celebrity guest host performing and ends with the signature catchphrase, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!

Wolverines segment with John Belushi, aired 10/11/1975 
 

Created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Eberson, SNL is one of the longest-running network television programs in the United States. The show is broadcast from Studio 8H at NBC's headquarters in the Comcast Building.

In 1977 the show changed its name to Saturday Night Live (apparently there was a name conflict "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" which debuted on ABC 9/20/75, was cancelled two months later).

Performed live in front of a studio audience, SNL immediately established a reputation for being cutting-edge and unpredictable. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the most successful comedians in the United States.

Throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 36 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

It was ranked tenth in TV Guide‍‍ '​‍s "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show. The live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests.

RESOURCES 
▲   First season of SNL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_1)
▲   Tickets to see SNL, http://www.nbc.com/tickets-and-nbc-studio-tour
▲   SNL Season 1, Episode 1, http://www.tv.com/shows/saturday-night-live/george-carlin-janis-ian-and-billy-preston-98658/
▲   SNL on Wikipedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live
▲   SCHILLER'S REEL, "Don't Look Back In Anger" skit with John Belushi, https://screen.yahoo.com/dont-look-back-anger-000000945.html
▲   28 'SNL' catchphrases that have kept us laughing for 40 years, Mashable, http://mashable.com/2015/02/13/snl-catchphrases/#1y.mCQ_Id5qC
▲   The 35 best SNL Skits of All Time, HuffPost, http://www.aoltv.com/2010/10/14/best-saturday-night-live-skits/
▲   The Killer Bees: Home Invasion, NBC, http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-killer-bees/n8622
▲   SNL 1st Season, 1st Episode, George Carlin Monologue on NBC video link at http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-carlin-monologue-1/n8596;


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Happy 95th B-Day to America's Goldest Sweetheart, Betty White: Born January 17, 1922 ~ ninety-five years ago! Is 95 really the NEW 65?

"Why do people say 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive.
If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding."  ~~ Betty White,  aka Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), actress, animal rights activist, author, comedian, radio host, singer, television pioneer and personality; First woman to produce a sitcom and own her own production company; Received honorary title of Mayor of Hollywood (1955).

On Tuesday, January 17th, America's "GOLDEST" Sweetheart, Betty White, will turn 95 years young. Born Betty Marion White in Oak Park, Illinois on January 17, 1922 -- Betty White is truly "All Things Happening!" Thanks to White, 2017 will prove to be the Year of "America's Greatest, Goldest Sweetheart!" Happy 95th B-DAY again to Betty White -- American actress, comedienne, singer, author, television personality, professional, entrepreneur, etc.

This article has been updated from original posting in 2012 celebrating Betty's 90th birthday titled Happy 90th Pre-B-Day to America's Goldest Sweetheart, Betty White: Born January 17, 2012 ninety years ago! Is 90 really the NEW 60?

Ninety-five is indeed the new sixty-five in all respects for White. What began in the year 1952 was filled with whirlwinds of events that would call for sixty-fifth anniversary celebrations for White in the year 2017.

Sixty-five years ago, White (then 30 years old) became an entrepreneur, co-founding Bandy Productions with writer George Tibbles, who wrote every episode of "Life With Elizabeth" and Don Fedderson, a producer.

It was 65 amazing years ago that White had the starring role in "Life With Elizabeth" where she earned her first of six Emmy Awards.

The low-budget comedy was produced by and filmed at a local Los Angeles TV station where White and Moore were on the staff (the series was originally a live production on KLAC-TV in 1952). George Tibbles wrote every episode of the series.


This was also the time when iconic Betty White not only became known as a famous TV Star -- now the year 2017 we celebrate White's 65th anniversary of her first commercial TV appearance -- all this while having her very own Radio Show,"The Betty White Show," all this while being a 30 year old in the year 1952!



Over the course of her 80+ year career, working with 200+ leading actors, and 75+ films, White has won seven Emmy Awards (six for acting).

She has received 20 Emmy nominations, including being the first woman ever to receive an Emmy for game show hosting (for the short-lived Just Men!).





White is still 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.




More resources about this amazing and legendary actress can be found at the following links below (my favorite is the video of her singing):

Betty White Leads Saturday Night Live to Monster Ratings
Betty White Filmography
Betty White on Wikepedia
Betty White's Off Their Rockers
Betty White's Young Fans Give Her "SNL" Boost
Betty White Nude Photos Confirm White Is Awesome
Hot Dogs, Potatoes Keep Betty White Young - Video Dailymotion
Betty White Says Her Love of Animals Helps Her Stay Young and Healthy
Betty White sings the 1954 pop ballad 'Nevertheless"

Saturday Night Live turns 41 today - Happy birthday to SNL

"Talk about a live show! It's nice to see you, welcome, and thanks for joining us -- live. I’m kinda glad that we’re on at night so that we’re not competing with all the football and baseball games. So many man … Football represents something we are. We are Europe Junior....What was the Europe Game?.... Let's take their land away from them...Football is a ground acquisition game... " ~~ George Carlin, (5/12/37 – 6/22/08) Comedy Icon, activist, actor, and author. Quote from opening line of George Carlin where he hosted the first “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast 10/11/1975. Photo SNL information courtesy of Wikipedia.org; Video below embedded from hulu; SNL 1st Season, 1st Episode; Video George Carlin opening skit, http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-carlin-monologue-1/n8596; SNL monologue script at http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75a.phtml
First SNL broadcast, 10/11/75, featuring first host, George Carlin video

Happy 41th SNL! SNL may be over the hill 1 year already but this skit-driven variety show is still going strong 41 years later making live audiences and TV viewers laugh hard as ever. American late-night live TV sketch comedy/variety, SNL, premiered 41years ago (10/11/75) on NBC.

Originally called "Saturday Night, the opening sketch roughly 5 minutes begins with a special celebrity guest host performing and ends with the signature catchphrase, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!

Wolverines segment with John Belushi, aired 10/11/1975 
 

Created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Eberson, SNL is one of the longest-running network television programs in the United States. The show is broadcast from Studio 8H at NBC's headquarters in the Comcast Building.

In 1977 the show changed its name to Saturday Night Live (apparently there was a name conflict "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" which debuted on ABC 9/20/75, was cancelled two months later).

Performed live in front of a studio audience, SNL immediately established a reputation for being cutting-edge and unpredictable. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the most successful comedians in the United States.

Throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 36 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

It was ranked tenth in TV Guide‍‍ '​‍s "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show. The live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests.

RESOURCES 
▲   First season of SNL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_1)
▲   Tickets to see SNL, http://www.nbc.com/tickets-and-nbc-studio-tour
▲   SNL Season 1, Episode 1, http://www.tv.com/shows/saturday-night-live/george-carlin-janis-ian-and-billy-preston-98658/
▲   SNL on Wikipedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live
▲   SCHILLER'S REEL, "Don't Look Back In Anger" skit with John Belushi, https://screen.yahoo.com/dont-look-back-anger-000000945.html
▲   28 'SNL' catchphrases that have kept us laughing for 40 years, Mashable, http://mashable.com/2015/02/13/snl-catchphrases/#1y.mCQ_Id5qC
▲   The 35 best SNL Skits of All Time, HuffPost, http://www.aoltv.com/2010/10/14/best-saturday-night-live-skits/
▲   The Killer Bees: Home Invasion, NBC, http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-killer-bees/n8622
▲   SNL 1st Season, 1st Episode, George Carlin Monologue on NBC video link at http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-carlin-monologue-1/n8596;


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Actor and Comedian, Lou Costello would have been 110 today: Happy 110th Birthday Lou Costello

Happy 110th birthday to actor and comedian Lou Costello, born Louis Francis Cristillo (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959). He passed of a heart attack 3 days before his 53rd birthday.

"I think I'll be more comfortable." ~~ Louis Francis Cristillo's last words to his private nurse at Doctors' Hospital in Beverly Hills, California.

What was your favorite Abbot and Costelo show?

Mine was "The Time of Their Lives" when he played ghost Horatio Prim. I recall his ghost girlfriend Melody calling for him "Horatio, Horatio, here I am Horatio..." hilarious. And I do believe in ghosts.

On June 26, 1992, the city of Paterson, New Jersey—in conjunction with the Lou Costello Memorial Association—erected a statue of Costello in the newly named Lou Costello Memorial Park in the city's historic downtown section. It shows Costello holding a baseball bat, a reference to the team's most famous routine, "Who's on First?".

Saturday Night Live reaches "over the hill" status: Premiered 40 years ago today (10/11/15) HAPPY 40TH SNL

"Talk about a live show! It's nice to see you, welcome, and thanks for joining us -- live. I’m kinda glad that we’re on at night so that we’re not competing with all the football and baseball games. So many man … Football represents something we are. We are Europe Junior....What was the Europe Game?.... Let's take their land away from them...Football is a ground acquisition game... " ~~ George Carlin, (5/12/37 – 6/22/08) Comedy Icon, activist, actor, and author. Quote from opening line of George Carlin where he hosted the first “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast 10/11/1975. Photo SNL information courtesy of Wikipedia.org; Video below embedded from hulu; SNL 1st Season, 1st Episode; Video George Carlin opening skit, http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-carlin-monologue-1/n8596; SNL monologue script at http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75a.phtml
First SNL broadcast, 10/11/75, featuring first host, George Carlin video



Happy 40th SNL! SNL may be over the hill but this skit-driven variety show is still going strong 40 years later making live audiences and TV viewers laugh hard as ever. American late-night live TV sketch comedy/variety, SNL, premiered 40 years ago (10/11/75) on NBC.

Originally called "Saturday Night, the opening sketch roughly 5 minutes begins with a special celebrity guest host performing and ends with the signature catchphrase, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!

Wolverines segment with John Belushi, aired 10/11/1975


Created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Eberson, SNL is one of the longest-running network television programs in the United States. The show is broadcast from Studio 8H at NBC's headquarters in the Comcast Building.

In 1977 the show changed its name to Saturday Night Live (apparently there was a name conflict "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell" which debuted on ABC 9/20/75, was cancelled two months later).

Performed live in front of a studio audience, SNL immediately established a reputation for being cutting-edge and unpredictable. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the most successful comedians in the United States.

Throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 36 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

It was ranked tenth in TV Guide‍‍ '​‍s "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show. The live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests.

RESOURCES
▲   First season of SNL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_1)
▲   Tickets to see SNL, http://www.nbc.com/tickets-and-nbc-studio-tour
▲   SNL Season 1, Episode 1, http://www.tv.com/shows/saturday-night-live/george-carlin-janis-ian-and-billy-preston-98658/
▲   SNL on Wikipedia,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live
▲   SCHILLER'S REEL, "Don't Look Back In Anger" skit with John Belushi, https://screen.yahoo.com/dont-look-back-anger-000000945.html
▲   28 'SNL' catchphrases that have kept us laughing for 40 years, Mashable, http://mashable.com/2015/02/13/snl-catchphrases/#1y.mCQ_Id5qC
▲   The 35 best SNL Skits of All Time, HuffPost, http://www.aoltv.com/2010/10/14/best-saturday-night-live-skits/
▲   The Killer Bees: Home Invasion, NBC, http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-killer-bees/n8622
▲   SNL 1st Season, 1st Episode, George Carlin Monologue on NBC video link at http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-carlin-monologue-1/n8596;


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Google’s doodle all pink for actress and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn’s 85th

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” ~~ Audrey Hepburn
(born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993), British actress and humanitarian; Film & Fashion Icon, American Film Institute ranks Hepburn as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema and has been placed in theInternational Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She is also regarded by some to be the most naturally beautiful woman of all time

No surprise that Google's "doodled pink" and celebrates Audrey Hepburn’s 85th with a simple, classical, stylish pink doodle.



THINGS I THINK OF WHEN I THINK OF AUDREY HEPBURN

Cropped hair-dos, gracious greecian up-dos, plain pony-tails and French twists, over-done eyelashes, natural eyelashes, over-outlined eyebrows, bushy eyebrows, plain pink lipsticks, dark red lipsticks, pencil-straight pants, wide-legged pants, bold-striped Tees, button-down shirts, ruffled blouses, strapless, turtleneck, you name it, Hepburn's glamorized and signatured it.

Any make-up she'd smudge on or apparel she'd wear would become the latest fad.

Hepburn was classic yet broke many rules from over-sized, overdone, stylizing menswear glorifying pinstripe suits, bow-ties and penny-loafers.

Hepburn transformed a simple "little black dress" into elegance and stunning formal wear into fashion statements.

Hepburn's beauty will always be ageless and her iconic style always timeless.

Surprisingly, according to an April 2013 Vanity Fair article, according to her son, Luca Dotti, Hepburn never thought she was beautiful.




THE LIFE OF AUDREY HEPBURN ON WIKIPEDIA

Born in 48 Rue Keyenveld, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was a British subject born in Úžice, Bohemia, to Anna Ruston née Wels of Austrian descent and Victor John George Ruston of British and Austrian descent. A one-time honorary British consul in the Dutch East Indies, Ruston had earlier been married to Cornelia Bisschop, a Dutch heiress.

Although born Ruston, he later double-barrelled the surname to the more "aristocratic" Hepburn-Ruston, mistakenly believing himself descended from James Hepburn, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), was a Dutch aristocrat and the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Suriname from 1921 to 1928. Ella's mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939), who was a granddaughter of jurist Dirk van Hogendorp.

The family often travelled between the three countries due to her mother's family in the Netherlands and her father's British background and job with a British company.

With her multinational background, she went on to speak fluent English, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. Hepburn participated in ballet by the age of 5.

In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell before moving to London in 1948 to continue her ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions. She spoke several languages including English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and German.

After appearing in several British films and starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the Academy Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. For her role in Roman Holiday, Hepburn was also the first actress to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for a single performance in 1954. The same year, she won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for Ondine. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. She won a record three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role.

She appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. Although contributing to the organization since 1954, she worked in some of the most profoundly disadvantaged communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992.

She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63.






Additional Resources
► Audrey Hepburn best photos, Vanity Fair http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/05/audrey-hepburn-photos
► Audrey Hepburn, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn">
► 25 Timeless Style Lessons from Audrey Hepburn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/audrey-hepburn-style_n_3780087.html
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Carol Burnett reaches the big 080: Happy B-Day to you

“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.”
~~ Carol Burnett
American actress, comedienne, singer, and writer; best known for her long-running TV variety show on CBS, The Carol Burnett Show.

From her signature Tarzan yell and left ear pinch what comes to mind whenever I think of Carol Burnett is her amazing accomplishments and presence in the industry. She has achieved so much success on stage, television -- a dozen years of CBS' "The Carol Burnett Show" -- and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. Happy birthday Carol Burnett!

Born, Carol Creighton on April 26th, 1933, in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett was the daughter of Ina Louise (née Creighton), a publicity writer for movie studios, and Joseph Thomas Burnett, a movie theater manager.

Burnett married Don Saroyan on December 15, 1955; they divorced in 1962. On May 4, 1963, Burnett married TV producer Joe Hamilton, a divorced father of eight, who had produced her 1962 Carnegie Hall concert and would produce The Carol Burnett Show, among other projects. The couple had three daughters: Carrie Hamilton December 5, 1963, died on January 20, 2002 Jody Hamilton January 18, 1967 (age 46) Erin Hamilton August 14, 1968 (age 44)

Their marriage ended in divorce in 1984, and Hamilton died of cancer in 1991. On November 24, 2001, Burnett married Brian Miller (principal drummer in and contractor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), who is 23 years her junior.

In January 2002, Burnett's daughter Carrie died of lung and brain cancer at the age of 38. She had become addicted to drugs as a teenager. Burnett and Carrie wrote a play together called Hollywood Arms, which was adapted from Burnett's bestselling memoir, One More Time.

The Broadway production featured Linda Lavin as the Burnett character's beloved grandmother, Sara Niemietz and Donna Lynne Champlin shared the role of Helen (Carol Burnett), and Michele Pawk played the role of the mother, Louise. For her performance, Pawk received the 2003 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.

Burnett's daughter Erin became a singer. Since the 1960s, Burnett has been best friends with Julie Andrews. Burnett is the godmother of Julie's first child Emma Walton Hamilton.

Will Google celebrate Carol Burnett’s 80th Birthday?


Additional Resources
► Carol Burnett Web site http://carolburnettfan.com/
► Carol Burnett, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Burnett">Carol Burnett
► Carol Burnett Brainy Quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/carol_burnett.html
► Carol Burnett’s birthday cake animated http://carolburnettfan.com/birthday-flash.html

The following awards, recognition and chronological historical information below courtesy of Wikipedia.org
Emmy Awards
♦Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6439 Hollywood Blvd. in front of the Hollywood Pacific Theatre (below), where she was once fired from a job as an usherette. At the time, it was known as the Warner Hollywood Theatre.
♦ 1962 – Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series, The Garry Moore Show
♦ 1963 – Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall and An Evening with Carol Burnett
♦ 1969, 1970, 1971 – Nominated for Outstanding Variety or Musical Series, The Carol Burnett Show
♦ 1972 – Outstanding Variety Series – Musical, The Carol Burnett Show, shared with Joe Hamilton (executive producer) and Arnie Rosen (producer)
♦ 1972 – Nominated for Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music, Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center
♦ 1973 – Nominated for Outstanding Variety Musical Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive producer), and Bill Angelos, Buz Kohan, and Arnie Rosen (producers)
♦ 1974 – Outstanding Music-Variety Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive producer) and Ed Simmons (producer)
♦ 1974 – Nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Drama, 6 Rms Riv Vu
♦ 1975 – Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive producer) and Ed Simmons (producer)
♦ 1976, 1977, 1978 – Nominated for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive producer) and Ed Simmons (producer)
♦ 1977 – Nominated for Outstanding Special – Comedy-Variety or Music, Sills and Burnett at the Met, with Beverly Sills and Joe Hamilton (producer)
♦ 1979 – Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special, Friendly Fire
♦ 1983 – Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Texaco Star Theater: Opening Night
♦ 1993 – Nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, The Larry Sanders Show
♦ 1995 – Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Men, Movies & Carol
♦ 1997 – Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Mad About You
♦ 1998 – Nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Mad About You
♦ 2002 – Nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers, with John Hamilton and Rick Hawkins (executive producers), Jody Hamilton and Mary Jo Blue (producers) 2009 – Nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Golden Globe Awards
♦ 1968 – Best TV Star – Female, The Carol Burnett Show
♦ 1970, 1972, 1977, 1978 – Best TV Actress – Musical/Comedy, The Carol Burnett Show
♦ 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979 – Nominated for Best TV Actress – Musical/Comedy, The Carol Burnett Show
♦ 1973 – Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy, Pete 'n' Tillie
♦ 1979 – Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role, A Wedding
♦ 1982 – Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress – Comedy/Musical, The Four Seasons
♦ 1983 – Nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, Annie
♦ 1983 – Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
♦ 1991 – Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical, Carol & Company
Other
♦ Burnett received a Peabody Award in 1962.
♦ She was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1980.
♦ In 1997, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.
♦ She was a recipient of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors.
♦ President George W. Bush awarded Burnett the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 9, 2005.
♦ She was named the Grand Marshal of the 109th Rose Parade and the 84th Rose Bowl Game on New Year's Day in 1998.
♦ She was the first honoree and presenter at second annual awards ceremony of the Back Stage West Garland Awards in 1999
♦ On December 1, 2009, she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
♦ Burnett was presented a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6439 Hollywood Blvd., in front of the Hollywood Pacific Theatre where she worked, as an usher in 1957.
Work
Television
♦ The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show (regular in 1955)
♦ Stanley (1956–1957)
♦ Omnibus (October 1956)
♦ The Garry Moore Show (regular from 1959–1962)
♦ The Jack Benny Program (guest appearances in 1962 and 1963)
♦ Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962)
♦ The Twilight Zone (played Agnes Grep in episode "Cavender Is Coming" – 1962)
♦ An Evening with Carol Burnett (1963)
♦ Calamity Jane (1963)
♦ Once Upon a Mattress (1964)
♦ The Entertainers (1964–1965)
♦ The Lucy Show (special guest star-4 episodes-1966)
♦ Carol + 2 (1967)
♦ Get Smart (1967) as "Ozark" Annie Jones in Season 3 episode "One of Our Olives Is Missing"
♦ The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
♦ Here's Lucy (Guest Appearance - 1968)
♦ The Carol Burnett Show in London (1970)
♦ Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971)
♦ Sesame Street (1971) giving a lecture about noses
♦ Once Upon a Mattress (1972)
♦ 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974)
♦ Out to Lunch (1974)
♦ Twigs (1975)
♦ The Cher Show (1975)
♦ Sills and Burnett at the Met (1976)
♦ All My Children (cast member: 1976, 1983, 1995, 2005, and 2011)
♦ Dolly and Carol in Nashville (1978)
♦ The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank (1978)
♦ Friendly Fire (1979)
♦ Carol Burnett & Company (1979)
♦ The Tenth Month (1979)
♦ The Muppet Show (1980) (Guest star Season 5, Episode 15)
♦ Eunice (1982) (teleplay based on the Family sketches separate from Mama's Family)
♦ Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982)
♦ Between Friends (1983)
♦ Mama's Family (cast member from 1983 to 1985)
♦ Burnett Discovers Domingo (1984)
♦ Magnum, P.I. (1984 and 1988 as Susan Johnson)
♦ The Laundromat (1985)
♦ Follies in Concert (1986)
♦ Fresno (1986) (miniseries)
♦ Plaza Suite (1987) (also executive producer)
♦ Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin (1987)
♦ Fame (1987) – episode Reggie and Rose (with Carrie Hamilton), broadcast April 27, 1987
♦ Hostage (1988)
♦ Julie & Carol: Together Again (1989)
♦ Carol & Company (1990) (canceled after one and a half seasons)
♦ The Carol Burnett Show (1991) (canceled after two months)
♦ The Larry Sanders Show (1992) – episode The Spider Episode
♦ The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (1993)
♦ Carol Burnett: The Special Years (1994)
♦ Seasons of the Heart (1994)
♦ Men, Movies & Carol (1994)
♦ Mad About You (Theresa Stemple, 1996–1999)
♦ Touched by an Angel (1997) – episode The Comeback (with Carrie Hamilton), broadcast November 23, 1997
♦ The Marriage Fool (1998)
♦ Putting It Together (2000)
♦ Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers (2001) (also executive producer)
♦ The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights (2004) (also executive producer)
♦ Once Upon a Mattress (2005) (also executive producer)
♦ Desperate Housewives (2006) (guest starring role as Eleanor Mason)
♦ American Masters Tribute to Carol Burnett (2007)
♦ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009) (Emmy award-nominated guest appearance)
♦ The Bonnie Hunt Show (2010) (Special guest)
♦ Glee (2010) (Special guest star)
Filmography
♦ Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
♦ Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968) (short subject)
♦ Star Spangled Salesman (1968) (short subject)
♦ Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
♦ The Front Page (1974)
♦ A Wedding (1978)
♦ Health (1980)
♦ The Four Seasons (1981)
♦ Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
♦ Annie (1982)
♦ Noises Off (1992)
♦ Moon Over Broadway (1997) (documentary)
♦ Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
♦ The Trumpet of the Swan (2001) (voice)
♦ Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2004) (documentary)
♦ Once Upon a Mattress (2005)
♦ Horton Hears a Who! (2008) (voice)
♦ Post Grad (2009)
♦ The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) (voice)
Stage
♦ Once Upon a Mattress (1959)
♦ Calamity Jane (1961)
♦ Calamity Jane (1963)
♦ Fade Out – Fade In (1964)
♦ Plaza Suite (1970)
♦ I Do! I Do! (1974)
♦ Same Time, Next Year (1977)
♦ Same Time, Next Year (1980)
♦ Follies (1985)
♦ Love Letters (1990)
♦ Company (1993)
♦ Moon Over Buffalo (1995)
♦ Putting It Together (1998)
♦ Broadway on Broadway (2002)

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Happy 90th Pre-B-Day to America's Goldest Sweetheart, Betty White: Born January 17, 2012 ninety years ago! Is 90 really the NEW 60?

On Tuesday, January 17th, America's "GOLDEST" Sweetheart, Betty White, will turn 90 years young. Born Betty Marion White in Oak Park, Illinois on January 17, 1922 -- Betty White is truly "All Things Happening!" Thanks to White, 2012 will prove to be the Year of "America's Greatest, Goldest Sweetheart!" Happy 90th B-DAY again to Betty White -- American actress, comedienne, singer, author, television personality, professional, entrepreneur, etc.



Ninety is indeed the new sixty in all respects for White. What began in the year 1952 was filled with whirlwinds of events that would call for sixtieth anniversary celebrations for White in the year 2012.

Sixty years ago, White (then 30 years old) became an entrepreneur, co-founding Bandy Productions with writer George Tibbles, who wrote every episode of "Life With Elizabeth" and Don Fedderson, a producer.

It was 60 amazing years ago that White had the starring role in "Life With Elizabeth" where she earned her first of six Emmy Awards. The low-budget comedy was produced by and filmed at a local Los Angeles TV station where White and Moore were on the staff (the series was originally a live production on KLAC-TV in 1952). George Tibbles wrote every episode of the series.

Sixty years ago White not only became known as a famous TV Star -- the year 2012 we celebrate White's 60th anniversary of her first commercial TV appearance -- all this while having her very own Radio Show,"The Betty White Show," all this while being a 30 year old in the year 1952!

Over the course of her 70+ year career, working with 200+ leading actors, and 75+ films, White has won seven Emmy Awards (six for acting) and has received 20 Emmy nominations, including being the first woman ever to receive an Emmy for game show hosting (for the short-lived Just Men!). White is still 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.

And where does she go from here? Obviously, not just a 90th B-Day celebration that's for sure. On the day before her 90th birthday (January 16th), we can all watch a special preview of Betty White's "Off Their Rockers" (Monday, January 16th 9:30/8:30c at 9:30pm/8:30pm central time) where White and a team of senior citizens pull hidden camera pranks.

So tell me, if you had one question to ask White what would it be? Here's the question I'd ask:
"How does it feel to be young at 90 and have your very own brand new TV show?" Then I would thank her for all she does and for making 90 the new 60 and 60 the new 30! Please share what you would ask Betty in the comments section below. Thanks.

More resources about this amazing and legendary actress can be found at the following links below (my favorite is the video of her singing):

Betty White Leads Saturday Night Live to Monster Ratings
Betty White Filmography
Betty White on Wikepedia
Betty White's Off Their Rockers
Betty White's Young Fans Give Her "SNL" Boost
Betty White Nude Photos Confirm White Is Awesome
Hot Dogs, Potatoes Keep Betty White Young - Video Dailymotion
Betty White Says Her Love of Animals Helps Her Stay Young and Healthy
Betty White sings the 1954 pop ballad 'Nevertheless"