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ing correspondent for ABC's Nightline.
The author of five books, Rollin saw
two become 'TV movies. Mary Tyler
Moore played Rollin in an adaptation
of First, You Cry. Patty Duke and
Maureen Stapleton were in an adapta-
tion of Last Wish.
Before exploring a writing career,
Rollin tried acting and appeared in
Advise and Consent with Farley
Granger in the Fisher Theatre's first
year of operation.
"Some agent saw me in a play in
school and put me in a show the day I
graduated," recalls Rollin, who terms
herself tribally Jewish but not reli-
gious. "I just went along with it. I
wasn't really sure what I wanted to do,
so I did that for a couple of years and
decided it wasn't for me.
"The road company was a lot of
fun, and I remember how beautiful
the Fisher was. I did a lot of sightsee-
ing in each city we visited because I'd
never seen America. I think I saw
every museum in the United States."
Rollin, whose reports on South
Dakota Indians won both an Emmy
and the DuPont Award, likes working
part time so that she can spend more
time with her husband, Dr. Harold
Edwards, a math professor at New
York University. Currently, she is on
the board of The Death with Dignity

National Center and Planned
Parenthood of New York City.
Rollin relates that her husband was
walking to work when the planes hit
the World Trade Center buildings.
From their terrace, they could see the
black smoke for days.
"When you've had cancer, that's
kind of an unthinkable thing," Rollin
says. "There isn't anyone who hasn't
been afraid of cancer, but you don't
really think it's going to happen to
you.
"Terrorism has that in common
with cancer. It's the unthinkable on a
much larger scale. Once you know
the unthinkable can happen, it
toughens you up a bit." ❑

Betty Rollin will appear at the
Women in Philanthropy Breast
Cancer Benefit 11 a.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 23, at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, Southfield. Proceeds will
be allocated for a digital mam-
mography system for the Maisel
Women's Health Center in West
Bloomfield and an advanced linear
accelerator providing enhanced
radiation therapy at the Weisberg
Cancer Treatment Center in
Farmington Hills. Tickets are $50.
Call (248) 538-6501.

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n her new novel, Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend (HarperCollins; $24), author
and breast cancer survivor Laney Katz Becker tells the story of two women
who "meet" on a breast cancer bulletin board over the Internet. As their e-
mails fly between New York and Ohio, the relationship between the women
deepens.
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They discuss their children, careers, husbands and hobbies, and share their
fears. By interweaving facts about breast cancer in a fiction format, the author
seeks to take information that otherwise might be perceived as frightening and
make it palatable, accessible, and, at
times, laugh-out-loud funny.
With an exhaustive appendix of Web
sites, online message boards and organiza-
tions women can contact for more infor-
mation — from the American Cancer
Society to Y-Me? — plus in afterword by
Peter I. Pressman, M.D., co-author of

Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide, Dear
Stranger, Dearest Friend dispels myths
about breast cancer while providing hope
and arealw
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lives, or the lives of someone they love or
care about, may some day be touched by
the disease.
The book is recommended for reading
groups. An online discussion guide can be
found at the author's Web site,

wvvw.dearstranger.com .

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