I know I am late to this bandwagon, but what else is new? However, it was just this last week that something I heard on a radio show made me stop to think a little bit more about this Betty White situation.
As you all know, there was a facebook campaign to get Saturday Night Live to invite Betty White to host the show. This was a big deal because Betty White is in her 80s, a fantastic actress, but has never hosted the show. The campaign was successful and Betty was a hit.
Now, though, people are getting carried away. There is a facebook campaign to have her host the Emmys and the Oscars. I am sure next it will be the Grammys and Dick Clark's New Year's Eve. But, has anyone stopped to ask Betty White if she wants all of this? Maybe she doesn't want to host the Emmys or the Oscars or the Grammys or any number of things people are surely sitting around concocting facebook campaigns for. How do we know?
Yes, I am sure she is honored. She is also in her 80s. She has been an actress for decades. Maybe she wants to relax, garden, surf the net. Maybe she doesn't want to spend hours and hours practicing for hosting gigs. We will never know, though, will we? No one has stopped to ask her.
Well, let me make it clear to you all. I don't want a facebook campaign to do something cool that somehow turns into a landslide of campaigns of more things to do which are less and less cool and more and more work. That is not fun to me. Fun to me is watching a good movie that you have to rewind four times because you keep falling asleep under a comfy blanket because it is raining out and it is Sunday and Monday is a holiday. THAT is fun.
You know what I want? Certainly love and adoration, but quieter and more subdued. And no facebook campaigns.
Unless the facebook campaign involves something that would allow me to watch more movies under comfy blankets and no work on Mondays.
In that case, campaign away!*
*If anyone could accomplish this, it would be my blog readers, you are the best!**
**That is not a bribe, you really are the best and I love you.***
***But if you can make that happen, I would love you even more.
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I don't even understand all the Betty White love. Where did it come from? Who started it? So confusing. But I agree, I would rather just sleep more than work more.
Jennifer - I dont know how it started but I am glad she got to do something she apparently wanted to. I always found her funny on Golden Girls which I am almost ashamed to admit how many times I have seen in reruns. As for me - sleep more, work less = dream.
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