Valerie Harper Has Brain Cancer. So Sad.

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By Nads | Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | 12:40 pm | 6 Comments
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Poor Valerie Harper. I just read that she has terminal brain cancer. Ugh. So sad. Valerie was best known for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and her old show Valerie (and Valerie’s Family) that later became The Hogan Family. They’ve discovered she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, “a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain.” She apparently has less than three months to live. So sad. My heart is broken for her. 

Sending positive thoughts…

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

6 Comments

  1. 1
    SquareHead
    Posted March 6, 2013 at 4:32 pm

    This made me cry. What a beautiful and funny woman, I always preferred Rhoda to Mary! Sending warm and funny thoughts to her.

  2. 2
    annie annie
    Posted March 6, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    man, Eff you cancer!!!

    I didn’t watch Mary Tyler Moore or Rhoda, they were a little before my time…..but I loved “Valerie’s Family”.
    So funny!! My thoughts go out to her!

  3. 3
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted March 6, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    I knew Valerie, and this is devastating through a former job. The person I knew was warm, funny, smart, a little loud, kind of profane and always very, very kind.

    Like you, Squarehead, I preferred Rhoda to Mary and told Valerie. I even told her that when I was growing up I wanted to wear her silk headscarves so I could be more like Rhoda. She had a good laugh at that and we were “friends” at work after that. I can still hear her always calling me (and everyone else) “Dear.”

  4. 4
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted March 6, 2013 at 6:17 pm

    So sad that I completely confused the first sentence. I knew her through a former job. It’s probably obvious but I feel the need to clarify.

  5. 5
    hot cawfee
    Posted March 7, 2013 at 9:39 am

    aaawwwww Rhoda Morgenstern—I will forever see her in her wedding drees riding the subway—–she is awesome and her blazing talent will be sorley missed.

  6. 6
    hot cawfee
    Posted March 7, 2013 at 9:39 am

    Lordy my cap code is……………one day more
    This will make me cry.
    God willing CC. God willing.

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