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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is suing to block a Beverly Hills auction house from selling Valerie Harper’s four Emmy statuettes because the sale this week would tarnish the award, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court. The Emmy awards that Harper received for playing Rhoda…

Amid the chaos that was 2019, the show business industry lost some major players. There were icons of the big screen (Peter Fonda, Doris Day) and TV (Valerie Harper, Rip Torn, Tim Conway), along with such legends as Broadway director Harold Prince and actress Carol Channing; singers Eddie Money, Ric Ocasek and José…

Hollywood is mourning the loss of Valerie Harper, the four-time Emmy winner who played Rhoda Morgenstern first on The Mary Tyler Moore Show then its 1974 spinoff Rhoda. The actress, who died today at 80, is being remembered for her strength and good humor in the face of illness. Harper had a total of eight consecutive…

A crowdfunding page has been started to help TV legend Valerie Harper with the costs of her cancer treatments. Harper, 79, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009. Then in 2013, doctors discovered she’d developed a rare brain cancer. Harper’s husband, Tony Cacciotti, started a GoFundMe campaign titled The Valerie Harper…

The television and stage actress, who has been waging a forthright public battle with cancer that spread from her lungs to her brain, is resting comfortably at an undisclosed location, according to a statement released tonight by Bradford Kenney, executive artistic director of the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. Best…

Valerie Harper, who has been battling a rare cancer of the brain for more than two years, was taken Wednesday evening to York Hospital in York, Maine, after reporting that she was not feeling well. The hospital is a few miles south of where she is appearing in an Ogunquit Playhouse production of the Gershwin musical Ni…

EXCLUSIVE: Christmas in April? Why not — if it’s got Dick Van Dyke and Valerie Harper? Here’s a sneak peek at their new short film Merry Xmas, which is set to unwrap, er, unspool at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. Glenne Headly and Matthew Modine co-star in director Boman Modine’s comic look at how the holidays…

In what was supposed to be a big fat plug for NBC, Meredith Vieira and Today, that network announced this morning that Valerie's Story: A Meredith Vieira Special, will premiere Thursday. Harper will be a guest on NBC's Today that morning. Valerie Harper Week actually begins tonight with her debut on ABC's Dancing With…

Based on preliminary stats, Good Morning America's Wednesday announcement of the new Dancing With The Stars cast is on track to have scored the biggest morning infotainment-show audience this week – about 5.3 million viewers. Demo-wise, it’s the same story, only with 2.2 million viewers 25-54.  Still, Wednesday’s Danci…

From the brave to the blah, Mary Tyler Moore Show/Rhoda actress Valerie Harper and a mess of Disney alums were this morning revealed on the next round of ABC’s struggling dance competition series Dancing With The Stars. Harper was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in January and given three to six months to live…

EXCLUSIVE: The ladies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show are back together on a sitcom stage. I’ve learned that Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman will join their MTM co-stars Betty White and Georgia Engel in an episode of White’s TV Land comedy series Hot In Cleveland, on which Engel has been recurring…

Valerie Harper has announced to People magazine that she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer on January 15th. The 73-year-old TV and stage actress is best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern during the 1970s on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her own spinoff Rhoda. She also starred in the late 1980s sitcom Valerie…