Betty White: American Icon Turns 90

Forget the nine lives of a cat. I want the lives of Betty White . Betty White turns 90 today and probably woke up this morning to a cascade of congratulatory phone calls, emails and tweets about the birthday special NBC threw for her last night. That’s the one where Amy Poehler cracked that she’d hear all kinds of nice things, but not remember any of them in the morning. In White’s case, that shouldn’t matter. She’ll hear just as nice a batch the next day. And that’s great. What’s really remarkable about Betty White, though, is the way her life and career now seem to be so much more than the sum of their parts/ New York Daily News . More here. (AP 2010 file photo: Betty White wears a U.S. Forest Ranger hat after being named an Honorary Forest Ranger by the U.S. Forest Service)

Question: Why do you think Betty White is special?