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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 2 augusT 2018

Betty White's 80-year career celebrated in PBS special

By BETH HARRIS ing his career by featuring
Associated Press him on her own daily talk
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — show in the mid-1950s. The
Betty White sees no point show received letters com-
in slowing down at age 96, plaining about Duncan's
as long as her phone keeps presence as a black per-
ringing with offers to work. former.
The actress known for White also served as pro-
her roles in "The Mary Ty- ducer and her response
ler Moore Show" and "The to the protests was to use
Golden Girls" is marking Duncan every chance she
her 80th year in show busi- could. He later went on to
ness with a PBS special that "The Lawrence Welk Show,"
looks at her life and career. becoming the first black
Moore, Georgia Engel regular on a TV variety
and Gavin MacLeod are show.
among those sharing in- "She was probably one
sights in "Betty White: First of the nicest, grandest,
Lady of Television," which greatest people I've had
debuts Aug. 21. the chance to meet in my
The special shows White life," said Duncan, now 84.
at work, at home and in- "Whenever she walked into
teracting with friends. She a room, it lit up." Dancer Arthur Duncan and actress Georgia Engel take part in a panel discussion on the PBS
special "Betty White: First Lady of Television" during the 2018 Television Critics Association
is the lone living star from The bald MacLeod, who is Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills.
"The Golden Girls." 87, recalled the interplay Associated Press
White didn't join Engel and between his character
MacLeod at a TV critics Murray and White's portray-
meeting on Tuesday. al of man-hungry Sue Ann
"Betty wanted to be here in Nivens on Moore's show.
the worst way," said Steve "If I had hair, I don't think
Boettcher, the special's it would have worked," he
co-director and producer. said, laughing about the
"She sends her best and comedic opportunities his
she's doing great." physical appearance af-
Tap dancer Arthur Duncan forded White.q
credits White with launch-
Snider doesn't need

yesterday because

today is his

By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press
Dee Snider "For the Love of
Metal" (Napalm)
Dee Snider, the Long Island
mouth that roared on all-
time rock classics including
"We're Not Gonna Take It"
and "I Wanna Rock," al-
ready did the solo thing in
the early '90s while Twisted This cover image released
Sister was on hiatus. by Napalm Records shows
But apparently there was "For the Love of Metal," the
something deeper, dark- latest release by Dee Snider.
er and heavier brewing Associated Press
within Snider that even he on growls, guttural snarls
might not have known was and bowel-rattling bass
there. (And this from a man and guitar riffs.It's difficult
who wrote a horror movie to imagine that a guy old
about a killer who sews vic- enough to collect Social
tims' mouths shut.) Security can melt your face
That darkness shines on deep into his fifth decade
"For the Love of Metal," a in the heavy metal biz. But
project that came about he does. And Snider gar-
when Hatebreed's Jamey nishes these tracks with just
Jasta dared Snider to enough attitude to appeal
make a modern metal al- to his '80s
bum. The result is heavy
fans. q