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Betty
White’s new series, Betty White's Off
Their Rockers, has come under fire from some journalists. Take for example,
Mark Middleton from The Huffington Post, who declared that the show “it only
serves to perpetuate nearly every negative stereotype of age.” In a recent
conference call interview everyone’s favorite Nonagenarian addressed the claims.
Betty had a
much more lighthearted take on the subject matter of her series, saying of
viewers, “They can either laugh with us or at us, but we’re not curing cancer
or stopping warfare. We’re just up there for fun and either laugh with us or at
us or don’t watch us.”
If Betty
isn’t the poster girl for living your fullest life, who is? And she clearly has
no plans to slow down any time soon. And to top it all off, the seven-time
Emmy-winner remains humble. When we told her it was an honor to speak with her
she jokingly said, “Have I got you fooled.”
If that’s
the case, Betty’s been fooling us for decades. From her brilliant portrayal of Sue Ann Nivens on “Mary Tyler Moore” to her turn as
Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls” and the ever-sassy Elka Ostrovsky on “Hot in Cleveland,” Betty’s never let us down.
Now comes Betty White's Off Their Rockers. Betty
serves as host and Executive Producer, and fans need not fear, she does funny
little sketches on each episode.
One thing
they won’t see is Betty participating in the pranks. When asked if she wishes
her face wasn’t so recognizable so she could get out on the streets and punk a
few unsuspecting youngsters herself, she quickly replied, “In a word, no. I’m
delighted that they do them and do them so well. But I’m not good at that.”
There’s that humility again.
As for what
she’s discovered throughout the course of her career, Betty conceded, “I don’t
think I knew much at that point. And I don’t know a heck of a lot now. But we
learn through the years that you appreciate the good stuff when it happens. You
don’t look back on it and think, “Oh, that was so great then and I didn’t
appreciate it.”
She attributed having this great attitude to her parents, “I was blessed with a mother and father who said, ‘Taste the good stuff now and realize how fortunate and how wonderful things are this minute, because enough minutes are not wonderful that you have to save up all the good ones to make it balance out.’”
Watch Betty
White on Betty White's Off Their Rockers
when it premieres on Wednesday, April 4 at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. Central on NBC.
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