Indeed, both Blythe and Gwyneth will be there that night. Blythe and I had lunch together a few weeks ago, and she is going to be filming our next Public Service Announcement for TV with the foundation in July. While she is donating her time, it is still an expensive proposition for the foundation.

I am way out of my league with this group of people, but their celebrity brings so much clout with it that when they sneeze it ends up in the papers and elsewhere. Celebrity spokespeople are a necessary tool for us to get our message out. I found Ms. Danner to be just like Jack Klugman, who I now have a fledgling personal relationship with after he filmed our first PSA due to hit TV in July. They are both just real people who have the same concerns, problems, and ups and downs as the rest of us. The fact that they are willing to loan their celebrity to the foundation for nothing speaks very highly of them as human beings. I'm not a person who follows stars and their films, lives etc. very much, so I really didn't know how different their world is from ours when it comes to being in public. But privately those that I have met and talked with seem to just be great people with no agenda or "Celebrity BS" attached to them. And yes, Gwyneth is at the top of the


Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.