Valerie Harper and Rita Moreno...(I caught Valerie on Piers Moron's show, and Rita on Morning Joe)
Valerie Harper, (Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and her spin off, and a number of other accomplishments since then) is 73 years old and has been battling brain cancer for four years, has been told at this point she may only have a few months to live.
But for her age she looks like a million bucks, and she brings to the table an incredible level of feistiness, tenacity, and zest for life that really makes her inspirational...
Rita Moreno is 81 years old, but you'd never know it...
What an incredibly energetic and "down to earth" lady with a broad and richly sweeping career, as an actress, and as a director, and as a part of Hollywood history...(she had an 8 year affair with Marlon Brando...she claims that the only picture he had on the wall in his house when he died was one of the two of them suckin' face with her butt nekkid...this one:
(I kinda doubt that...fetching as that photo is, Marlon still must have had at least one picture of Wally Cox on the wall)
Like her character in West Side Story, she literally got off the boat from Puerto Rico in New York as a child with her mother and made her way to Los Angeles to become " The Latin Liz Taylor"...
A great American success story...
After seeing that interview, Rita went to the top of my list (well okay, maybe # 2 after Lara Parker) of Still Living People I Would Most Like To Go Out For A Drink With...
I know...
