Valerie Harper: I have Brian Cancer and Three Months To Live

Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff, Rhoda, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

People magazine reported on its website Wednesday that Valerie Harper the 73-year-old actress received the news on Jan. 15. Tests revealed Valerie Harper has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain. The report says Valerie Harper’s doctors have said she has as little as three months to live.

“I don’t think of dying,” Harper told the magazine in a cover interview. “I think of being here now.”

Valerie Harper’s character, Rhoda, was one of television’s most beloved characters during the 1970s, and the tart-tongued, self-deprecating Rhoda made Harper a star. She won three consecutive Emmys (1971-73) as supporting actress on Mary plus another for outstanding lead actress for Rhoda, which ran from 1974-78.

Valerie Harper began show business as a dancer in several Broadway musicals, and worked in summer stock and with the Second City improv group.

Paul Bearer The WWE Manager is dead

Paul Beares is the popular restling manager of the 90s. He died on Tuesday at the age of 58. Reports have it that he told his friends at his last days that he was suffering from blood cloth, although the hospital did not reveal the cause of his death

Paul Bearer also known as Moody hit the peak of his career when he joined the WWE in 1991,took the name Paul Bearer and became The Undertaker's manager. Paul Bearer's face was painted a pasty white and he would carry an urn with him to ringside.

Paul Bearer  was known for a demonic laugh and the catch phrase, "Oh, yes!" Paul Bearer hosted a show on WWE broadcasts known as "The Funeral Parlor."

Paul Bearer (Moody) got into the wrestling business in the late 1970s, first competing on smaller shows around the country while serving in the Air Force.

Paul Bearer's  first major success, though, came when he was joined Florida Championship Wrestling in 1984 under the name Percival "Percy" Pringle III. Paul Bearer had worked under the Pringle name for several years previously, but didn't get over as a star until joining FCW.

Moody's greatest notoriety came after joining the WWE. He told of a 1990 meeting with WWE owner Vince McMahon and executives Pat Patterson and J.J. Dillon in which the Paul Bearer character was first conceived.