This is Carlton, your doorman.

[alphafemale]

Rhoda, the world has loved you.

Safe passage, dear friend.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. wait a minute. I knew she was diagnosed and it was terminal and fast acting ...

but, are you saying she has passed?
By ABC News
Mar 6, 2013 8:57am

Valerie Harper, the actress best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own spinoff, “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

Harper, 73, received the diagnosis on Jan. 15, just days before she appeared on “Good Morning America” and described the stroke-like symptoms that sent her to the hospital.

“It was if I had Novocain,” Harper said in the live interview Jan. 21. “I thought what the heck is happening to me?”

“I went to the hospital and they couldn’t find much of anything. Now I’m still awaiting test results,” she said at the time, also adding, “I’m feeling great.”


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/03/valerie-harper-diagnosed-with-terminal-brain-cancer/

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. No news of her passing yet.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. thanks.

I am sure Carlton will be glad to hold the door for her whenever she does pass ...

[alphafemale]

5. Imminent.

But not yet. With brain tumors her conscious time may be short though.

She, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Burnett were my very early role models for smart, funny, successful women.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. yes. funny and smart and classy, all three. n/t

[magical thyme]

9. is there an actual brain tumor, though?

What she has is known as a follow on to lung cancer, where cancerous cells spread to the meninges fluid and circulate through the CSF. So the actual lesion may or may not be in the brain.

Per NIH,median life span with treatment is 3-6 months.

[Grantuspeace]

4. Lorenzo Music who played Carlton and Garfield passed away in 2001. n/t

[talkingmime]

6. Carlton was the only character on "Rhoda" who was never seen.

[union_maid]

8. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing for her wedding

And then they got divorced. Just like real life. I'm really so sorry that this thing has happened to her. What a horrific diagnosis.