Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, celebrated at stamp ceremony in Los Angeles
Betty White is making her mark on the nation’s snail mail. The beloved actor of The Golden Girls fame was celebrated with a new US Postal Service stamp at a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday (Mar 27). Fans that were crowded behind barricades cheered as a blue curtain dropped to reveal the stamp featuring a portrait of White against a violet-colored background with lighter shades of bubbly spots in a nod to her sparkling personality. She wears a blue polka-dot blouse and peeking out of her blond curls is an earring shaped like a pawprint. “When I was working on the stamp surrounding myself with Betty White videos and pictures, I felt like I was working on a portrait of a family member,” Boston-based artist Dale Stephanos said. “I wanted Betty’s huge personality to take center stage.” The illustration is based on a photo taken by Kwaku Alston in 2010. At the celebration, singer-songwriter Ellis Hall performed a snippet of Thank You for Being a Friend, the theme song to The …
