Legendary actress Betty White is dead at age 99 on New Year’s Eve. She was just days short of her 100th birthday on January 17, 2022. She was a five-time winner of Primetime Emmys and also won a regional Emmy early in her career, plus a Daytime Emmy for hosting the game show “Just Men.”
Gold Derby interviewed her back in 2011 about her Emmy nomination for “Hot in Cleveland.” The audio chat featured above includes a discussion about her work on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Golden Girls,” “Saturday Night Live” and game shows. She said, “I’m still having the same kind of fun I’ve had for the last 63 years in the business. You’ve got to taste that and appreciate it.”
Regarding her awards success, White revealed, “Each one is different, and each one is very special. I know it’s so corny and such a cliche, but...
Gold Derby interviewed her back in 2011 about her Emmy nomination for “Hot in Cleveland.” The audio chat featured above includes a discussion about her work on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Golden Girls,” “Saturday Night Live” and game shows. She said, “I’m still having the same kind of fun I’ve had for the last 63 years in the business. You’ve got to taste that and appreciate it.”
Regarding her awards success, White revealed, “Each one is different, and each one is very special. I know it’s so corny and such a cliche, but...
- 1/1/2022
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Rhoda Morgenstern will live forever, but Valerie Harper, who portrayed the iconic New Yorker on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has passed away at the age of 80.
Harper began battling cancer in 2013 after being told she had Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
Doctors asserted she had as few as three months to live, but Harper was having none of it.
Harper fought her diagnosis and announced eight months later that she was in remission.
The seasoned entertainer jumped on board an NBC documentary.
She also joined Dancing with the Stars. That premiered on September 16, 2013.
A former ballet dancer, Harper was paired with Tristan MacManus and got eliminated after the third episode.
She wanted Americans to be less afraid of death and to recognize it's a passage of life.
"While you're living, live," she told the audience.
Born to Iva and Howard Harper in Suffern, New York, Harper was the middle child.
Harper's first...
Harper began battling cancer in 2013 after being told she had Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
Doctors asserted she had as few as three months to live, but Harper was having none of it.
Harper fought her diagnosis and announced eight months later that she was in remission.
The seasoned entertainer jumped on board an NBC documentary.
She also joined Dancing with the Stars. That premiered on September 16, 2013.
A former ballet dancer, Harper was paired with Tristan MacManus and got eliminated after the third episode.
She wanted Americans to be less afraid of death and to recognize it's a passage of life.
"While you're living, live," she told the audience.
Born to Iva and Howard Harper in Suffern, New York, Harper was the middle child.
Harper's first...
- 8/30/2019
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Last week, Mptf (Motion Picture & Television Fund) hosted its sixth annual “Reel Stories, Real Lives” event, a unique evening of powerful readings which told the stories of industry members and their families who have benefitted from Mptf’s services in recent years.
Josh Hartnett Attends Reel Stories, Real Lives
Matthew Broderick, Josh Hartnett, Chrissy Metz, Jessica Rothe, and Will Fetters served as the storytellers. Each story was written by some of Hollywood’s leading feature and television writers including Dorothy Blyskal, Will Fetters, Seth Grahame-Smith, Monica Macer, and Billy Ray. The evening was hosted by actor/writer Kumail Nanjiani, and included a special piece featuring Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos, introduced by Melissa McCarthy in a hilarious video piece.
To close the show, Gianopulos shared the story of why he got involved with Mptf back at the organization’s 80th Anniversary event. It was there that he heard Ethel Winant,...
Josh Hartnett Attends Reel Stories, Real Lives
Matthew Broderick, Josh Hartnett, Chrissy Metz, Jessica Rothe, and Will Fetters served as the storytellers. Each story was written by some of Hollywood’s leading feature and television writers including Dorothy Blyskal, Will Fetters, Seth Grahame-Smith, Monica Macer, and Billy Ray. The evening was hosted by actor/writer Kumail Nanjiani, and included a special piece featuring Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos, introduced by Melissa McCarthy in a hilarious video piece.
To close the show, Gianopulos shared the story of why he got involved with Mptf back at the organization’s 80th Anniversary event. It was there that he heard Ethel Winant,...
- 11/8/2017
- Look to the Stars
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