morgan stern to life on the iconic "mary tyler moore show" millions of people loved her role as mary's bethd so much that harper got her own spinoff, appropriately called "rhoda." remember this? >> my name is rhoda mergen stern. i was born in the bronx, new york, december, 1941. >>. >> many of harpers a fans are now showing their love and support for her after seeing her shocking cover on "people" magazine this week, the stunning title, "valerie harper's brave good-bye." harper reveals that she has this rare, incurable form of brain cancerer and she has only three months to live but that is not getting her spirit down she talked to the syndicated show "the doctors." >> put out is three months to live. that could be because what i have is rare and my wonderful doctors delineate exactly what it is and how it's working. it's also incurable. so far. that's the word i'm looking at, so far, 'cause they are doing research as we speak. and so i just thought that while i'm still able, because it is brain, to speak and show you that cooking my husband's dinner, walking on the bluff at santa monica an