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Today. with me now is tv critic for npr. what can you say, eric, about betty white? she was everything. >> yeah, and what was amazing about her was that she was a star in so many eras of television from its earliest beginnings all the way through the game show era, she was known as the first lady of game shows and married one of the best known game show hosts in alan luden and became the queen of the sitcoms and co-starring on "the mary taylor moore show" and having one of the biggest roles on "...

Every female comedian saying what are we going to do? carry on her legacy, i guess. she went with it. erics point was so great. the most loved, beloved people are the people that are so confident in their talent and she had nothing to prove. she was full of joy. and she excelled at everything and so she was -- she just was hilarious whether a comedy central roast where she was hilariously filthy, where she was on "mary tyler moore" being her best self-as a single woman in the 70s to the "golden ...

>> one thing that was interesting to me about betty white is that as open hearted as she seemed, she also seemed to be very careful about her personal life. so we dont have a lot of information yet on, you know, what her health status was or what she died from, or at least i dont and my sense was that she was ageing, there wasnt a lot of information out there about how she was doing or what sort of health challenges she might have been facing so that is, you know, also something that i think wel...