(TNND) — The U.S. Postal Service will be celebrating and
honoring beloved actress Betty White with a new forever
stamp bearing her likeness.

USPS said in a news release the stamp will commemorate
her "warmth, wit and charisma."

A forever stamp means it never expires and is equal to the
price of 1-ounce First-Class mail.

The actress was best known for roles in “The Golden Girls,
" “The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and “Boston Legal."

She died less than three weeks before her 100th birthday in
late December 2021.

The Postal Service announced it will host a special event on
March 27 to unveil the new stamp at the Los Angeles Zoo
and Botanical Gardens.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) began selling
Forever stamps on April 12, 2007. The first Forever
stamp featured the Liberty Bell.

  2015

The guitar destroyed by Kurt Russell’s character was not a prop
but an antique 1870s Martin guitar lent by the Martin Guitar
Museum. According to sound mixer Mark Ulano, the guitar was
supposed to have been switched with a copy to be destroyed,
but this was not communicated to Russell; everyone on the set
was "pretty freaked out" at the guitar’s destruction, and actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh’s reaction was genuine, though "Tarantino
was in a corner of the room with a funny curl on his lips, because
he got something out of it with the performance."

Museum director Dick Boak said that the museum was not told
that the script included a scene that called for a guitar being s
mashed, and determined that it was irreparable.

The insurance remunerated the purchase value of the guitar
and as a result of the incident, the museum no longer lends
props to film productions.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Kurt Russell will be 74 in March.

Director Quentin Tarantino.

The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.

Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000) 

       

On January 16, 1942, the actress Carole Lombard, famous for her
roles in such screwball comedies as My Man Godfrey and To Be
or Not to Be, and for her marriage to the actor Clark Gable, was
killed when the TWA DC-3 plane she is traveling in crashed en - 
route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. She was only 33.

Doug Scroggins of Las Vegas spent years documenting the crash
site on Mount Potosi which is 35 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

Scroggins said "Flight 3 crashed near the 8,300-foot level of Mount Potosi with flaps retracted, and the plane in level flight. Something happened inside that cockpit and happened so fast that the pilot
could not react.”

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

1939

A TWA DC-3, similar to the accident aircraft.

Leslie Charleson, known for her role on "General Hospital,"
died Sunday morning after a long illness. She was 79.

The Daytime Emmy-nominated actress portrayed Monica
Quartermaine on the soap opera for nearly 50 years.

Ron Howard and Leslie Charleson in “Happy
Days” TV show.