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>> no. >> reporter: in her own show, she played a single woman in a tv newsroom. >> you got spunk. >> well. >> i hate spunk. >> reporter: the show had enough spunk to last seven seasons. mary also went after serious roles. >> do you chase these roles? >> yes. >> reporter: she was no, mamin for "ordinary people" and in her not so ordinary life, married three times and lived through diabetes and benign brain tumor. lost her only son when he accidentally shot himself. she was a vegetarian and for y...