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Published on Saturday, Sep 06, 2008
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS.
Jack Black, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry and Keanu Reeves — along with presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama — were among the stars participating in Stand Up to Cancer, an hourlong, commercial-free fundraising show spearheaded by entertainment-industry heavyweights whose lives have been touched by the disease.
''This is an absolutely historic night, thanks to the unbelievable generosity of the three networks,'' producer and cancer survivor Laura Ziskin told the audience at the Kodak Theatre before the show began.
''We hope we're going to make you laugh, and I know we're going to make you cry, so I have some party favors,'' she said as she tossed packets of Kleenex into the crowd.
Cancer survivors Lance Armstrong and Elizabeth Edwards kicked off the program with statistics: Cancer kills 550,000 Americans and six million people worldwide each year.
''That's the equivalent of 9/11 every two days,'' Armstrong said.
Patrick Swayze, Billy Crystal, Salma Hayek and Christina Applegate urged viewers to call in and donate, while Neil Patrick Harris, America Ferrera, Christina Ricci and Kirsten Dunst answered phones. Network news anchors Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams emceed the program.
Black provided a dose of comic relief: ''I usually watch these things at home in my underwear,'' he said, adding that the celebrities answering phones may have some of the fattest pockets around.
''I'm going to make these gravy-trainers pony up,'' he said. ''Who's got Spielberg's number? He's got a lot of dough.''
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS.
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