As a grandmother who works extra long hours, has a long standby time, and spans several eras, Aunt Bai is already a spiritual symbol.
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Two weeks after turning 100 years old, on the last day of 2021, the old American aunt Betty White (White Aunt) passed away.
Before she died, Aunt Bai's health was still very good.
During the epidemic, she lived in a 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom mansion in Los Angeles, staying at home. Her brain was still good, and she was busy reading the newspaper and playing crossword puzzles at home.
Fearing that Aunt Bai, who is a high-risk group, is infected with the virus, only caregivers and domestic workers can enter and leave the house.
▲ Aunt Bai was really lucky, and there was no pain and dementia in her later years, and she died safely in professional nursing
Before her death, people were still preparing for Aunt Bai's 100th birthday party. People magazine has done the cover for Aunt Bai.
Aunt Bai herself also posted on social media: Incredible, this day is really coming.
A few days later, Aunt Bai died due to natural death.
▲ The four words "natural death" are too luxurious, and I think "ending without illness" is also a good word
Sometimes when I think about it, a century is really long.
100 years ago, China was in the new cultural movement, the United States was struggling in the Great Depression, how much did a person have to go through from then to this time?
Another centenarian that Yu Yanjie can think of is Zhang Xueliang.
In his later years, the reporter went to interview Zhang Xueliang.
He looked at himself in the digital camera and was puzzled, amazed at how the images could appear on the screen in sync, and kept muttering: "How to get it, how to get it." ”
And Aunt Bai, who is in her 90s, also triumphantly told everyone: "I play Facebook, I still have Twitter and IG." ”
Aunt Bai in front of the camera is always alive, no wonder everyone always thinks that she will always live.
Aunt Bai is indeed very old, and her iconic talk shows and TV series are mostly decades ago, so they are not known to Chinese audiences.
But when it comes to a few movie characters voiced by Aunt Bai in her 90s, you will definitely be impressed.
For example, in "Bo Niu", the mother-in-law in the old people's home with a poisonous tongue and a proud tongue is the one who is sprayed with water by the goldfish. There's also tiger teether from Toy Story 4.
Aunt Bai graduated from high school and entered the industry.
Because her appearance did not conform to the aesthetics of the time, the film company did not accept her, and could only be a faceless host on the radio.
Fortunately, the TV industry has become more and more prosperous (yes, tv was once a new media), and Aunt Bai took advantage of the east wind of new media to do talk shows, game shows, and cooking shows from miscellaneous things.
In the 50s, these belonged to a new form of television programs, and Aunt Bai was also known as the "first lady of the television industry". Unexpectedly, a game program like "Happy Base Camp" should worship Aunt Bai as grandmaster milk.
When writing the article, Yu Yanjie conveniently clicked on a young white aunt singing Li Peiji's jazz old song "A Beautiful Day", which was popular, soft and dumb, and unexpectedly good.
Aunt Bai once said that as long as she has a career, she is the luckiest.
Aunt Bai has been married 3 times.
Her first husband was a pilot during World War II. After the war, the husband wanted to return to a simple life and returned to the Ohio farm to raise chickens. But this was not the life that Aunt Bai wanted, so she divorced and ran back to Los Angeles.
Her second husband was a well-known agent in Hollywood.
The marriage was divorced in two years. The reason is that the man wants children, and Aunt Bai does not want to have a baby, but only wants to engage in a career.
The reason why Aunt Bai refuses to give up a little career is because in the era when female employment is not a common phenomenon, everything she has is hard to strive for and hard to come by.
Aunt Bai was the first female television presenter and the first producer to hire a female director.
Aunt Bai began to do talk shows in the 50s, 6 days a week, for 4 consecutive years, and was a proper model worker in that era.
When the 93-year-old received the Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award, Aunt Bai humbly said——
I can't believe I've been in this business for so many years, and you've always liked me, and I owe you more than you have given me awards.
After two trial and errors, until Aunt Bai was 42 years old, she married for the third time, for a TV host, and this time she finally found a like-minded person.
Aunt Bai was so satisfied with her last marriage that the two lived together for 18 years until her husband died of stomach cancer.
After her husband passed away, Aunt Bai publicly stated that she would not get married again.
At that time, Aunt Bai was 60 years old, and everyone didn't understand why she had to set up a flag to limit herself.
Aunt Bai's answer was: "Once you have the best, who needs the others?" ”
Why does this sound so familiar?
How did He Yichen say: "If there ever been that person in the world, everyone else will become a general." And I don't want to settle for it. ”
Aunt Bai lived in Los Angeles before she died, because of the good climate and good medical care.
But Aunt Bai's favorite apartment, the place she calls home, is her and her husband's self-built house.
In 1972, Aunt Bai and his wife spent $170,000 to buy a piece of land in North Carolina to build an ideal home.
Facing the sea, spring blossoms, the 300 square meter house has only 2 bedrooms, and there are 5 bathrooms.
The elderly Aunt Bai is a cute poisonous-tongued grandmother.
She boasted of Deadpool's Reynolds: Reynolds in a red leather jacket was too handsome. I'm going to give him 4 Golden Girls.
"Golden Girl" is a blockbuster drama in the early 90s, which is the old lady's version of "Friends" + "Sex and the City".
When writing an article, I met Yan Jie to open an episode, and the result was out of control, and the half-cut article was thrown away, hahaha for half a day.
Flowing bedmate, iron girlfriend. Sensationalism is booming, driving the car in a trance.
In "Golden Girl", the poisonous tongue white aunt played a silly white sweet, thinking infinitely extended, and there are many strange examples.
She was convinced that her elementary school teacher was a German spy who deliberately taught American children to be fools and powerless to resist the German invasion.
When I first met Charlie, I was 7 years old and he was 8 years old. It is also the true transmission of Jinjiang's whispers.
"Golden Girl" originally wanted to shoot a few more seasons, but the 4 actors could not hold out because of their age.
After retirement, when the grandmother's grandmother, when the grandmother's grandmother, and the white aunt does not raise a baby but raises a dog.
At the age of 90, Aunt Bai made a rap music video "I am still hot".
I thought she was just on camera, but I didn't expect Aunt Bai to really sing.
Aunt White's life, childless, no spouse, but several generations of American audiences loved her.
About the successful life, Buffett said it very well -
"At my age, I'll find that the measure of success is how many people really care about you and love you."
Aunt Bai's agent said that at this age, Aunt Bai was no longer afraid of death, she was bent on being with her husband, and "she firmly believed that she would meet him again."
Before, Yi Shu said: Life is not about being long, but about being good.
The reason why one is discarded is because a long and good life is a scarce variety.
In the first part of the new year, Yu Yanjie wrote the story of Aunt Bai, hoping that we can all have a life of both length and width like Aunt Bai.
The pictures in this article are from the internet
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