This is the Mark Simone Show.

Mr. New York.

On 710 W.O.R.

Well, Roger Friedman, the top entertainment reporter, and he's got an excellent website,

Showbiz 411.com. Lots of great stories, new stuff every day. Showbiz 411.com.

Roger Friedman, how you doing?

I'm great. Good morning. How are you?

Good. Hey, we've got the terrible news. Our good friend, bestselling author, Carol Higgins-Clark,

passed away, and you broke the story.

Well, I didn't mean to break the story, but I'm glad I was able to write something nice about her. We all loved

her from Elaine's restaurant. We knew her 30 years at least. And she was just a wonderful person,

a very talented writer, knockout beautiful, with a great sense of humor. And tragically, she got cancer of the appendix about three years ago, very rare.

And she even made PSAs for the organization that helps people with appendix cancer.

She was very forthright about it.

But in the end, she lost her battle a couple of days ago.

Yeah.

And she had quite a radio career.

She was on this show.

Her mother was Mary Higgins-Clark, and the two of them were regulars on IMS for a million

years.

Oh, yeah. And plus, she wrote a bunch of books she wrote at least more than a dozen books of her own plus she

wrote i think four with her mother and then a number of uh cow's books were made into uh like

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