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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsValerie Harper, TV's Rhoda, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer
Actress Valerie Harper, best known to TV viewers for her memorable '70s role of Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and later "Rhoda," has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
People magazine revealed the news Wednesday morning.
"I don't think of dying," the 73-year-old told the magazine. "I think of being here now."
According to the publication, Harper underwent tests that revealed she has a condition known as leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, and has been told by doctors that she could have as little as three months to live.
"I've had a good run," she told People. "What more could I ask for?"
http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/03/06/17208312-valerie-harper-tvs-rhoda-diagnosed-with-terminal-brain-cancer?lite
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I hope that, whatever happens moving forward, she's without pain.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I heard her not very long ago and she seemed OK, it's another reminder that tomorrow is promised to no one.
From things I've read and seen we seem to be on the cusp of some tools that someday, hopefully soon, could hasten the end of cancer.
If our national priorities were better, if we invested in medical research at a fraction of the level we invest in tax breaks for zillionaires, the sinkhole that is the security state and perpetual war, we might have vanquished the big c already.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Thank you for many, many smiles.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Her show was always a highlight of my Wednesday nights as a child. (Or was it Friday? Can't remember.)
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I think Rhoda was Wednesdays.
ellie
(6,929 posts)I love her!
jsr
(7,712 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Her scenes w/ her on screen 'mother' Nancy Walker pop to the forefront in my memory.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)the wisecracks here beginning @ 3:09 through 4:05, lol
Genius, I tell you!
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Loved you on the MTM show and then on Rhoda. May you passing be peaceful and pain free....
Mary Tyler Moore seems like a nice person, but it was much easier for me to identify with Valerie and Cloris Leachman.
Spitfire of ATJ
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