role fighter and cancer survivor. step into the fox light micah tamara who talked with with valerie harper about her cause very close to her heart. nice to see you michael. valerie harper true entertainment icon. opened up about early career most famous role and new partnership with the american among association and american lung force. check it out. born to perform. valerie harper has been lighting up the stage and screen for over five decades. now she has opened up on her early start and her new mission. valerie harper, thank you for joining us here at the famous palm restaurant. let s go back, when did you first know you wanted to be a performer? probably around 2. really? yeah. my mom and dad took me to the ballet. you started off as a dancer? yeah. you had the acting bug. what was it that pushed you to finally go there? i heard the laughs.
born to perform. valerie harper has been lighting up the stage and screen for over five decades. now, she has opened up on her early start and her new mission. thank you for joining us, here at the famous palm restaurant. i love the palm. let s go back a little bit. when did you first go you wanted to be a performer. probably around two. really? my mom and dad the ballet. you started off as a dancer? yeah. you had the acting bug. what was it that pushed you d to finally go there? i heard the laughs. valley is best known for playing rhoda, mary tyler moore s brash best friend. would you like to go to a funeral? you bet, thanks. what was it about rhoda, was she relatable? everybody knew her. she wasn t in their family, she was definitely someone they knew. i feel strange in the least about going out with a divorced person. what do you mean divorced he s married?
it. do you have the acting bug now? i don t know. you don t know? do you want to do more work? i want to do more work. okay. casting directors out there. he s great in this film. so nice to meet you. thanks for your time. thank you. time for a gut check. 400,000 federal workers come back to work. president obama urged new kopgs between democrats and republicans going forward in a search for a long-term budget deal. all right, so what does your gut tell you about that? will there be a stachbd-off in a few months? you can go to facebook.com/newsnation. ta s going to do it for me. thomas roberts for tamron hall. the cycle comes your way next.
called were in this order george walker bush and then bill clinton because he knew at some level both men had tried to actually kill bin laden and had been unable to do it. reporter: public reaction a year ago may not have been as solemn as the phone calls sound. it is nonetheless true that bin laden s death was greeted then across party lines as a matter of justice, not politics. candy crowley, cnn, washington. top of the hour. i m suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a witness to robert kennedy s assassination says there was a second gunman. nina says her claim was overlooked back in 1968 and that someone altered the testimony she gave. but she remembers it vividly. i can hear the rhythm of the gunshots in my head, and i know first i thought it was flash bulbs. it was pop, pop and then pop, pop, pop, very rapid fire to my right in back of senator kennedy. convicted assassin sirhan sirhan is asking a court to release him from prison or give him a new tria
two vintage guitars forred 12dz,000. in a move that is raising eyebrows in and out of showbiz, sal moo highback has been named a knight of the legion of honor by france s president. highback s husband is the billionaire ceo of a french company. and finally, whether or not you believe lady gaga followed a master plan for success called madonna, there is at least one material girl direction lady gaga is going in, acting. she insists she is just a musician. but that can also be the madonna plan in a way. she probably looks at her acting career and goes off it. didn t go so well. but i think she went to nyu, lady gaga. a lot of those i don t know. i don t believe it. people get the acting bug. so you don t think it s going to hold? i think she ll do as well as she can. and justin timberlake didn t get into acting five years later. i think we ll see her on stage at some point. or at least in theaters.