Take the old show Match Game, where contestants would try to match answers with the ones offered by six celebrities. A talk show guest, or - in White's case - a game show guest. There's a reason people still quote the speech in First Wives' Club when the character played by Goldie Hawn says that Hollywood recognizes three life stages for actresses: "babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."īetty White, who died Friday a few weeks short of her 100th birthday, raised her profile in the 1960s, in a cultural moment in which you could be a famously wonderful guest. Something awful happens to the pop-culture take on smart, sharp-witted people when they have the audacity to age beyond some unspecified point. Betty White at the 41st Annual People's Choice Awards in 2015.
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