DONE !!

thanks bill

Thanks, the list there is growing!

I saw an article in a magazine at the drug store today.....a soap opera mag., which I think was Soap Opera Digest. It had an article by an actress with oral cancer, titled, "The Cancer That Nobody Knows Anything About." I guess she thinks she discovered it....Anyway, I did not buy the mag., but I am going back tomorrow and will either lay out the $5 or take notes so that I can see if the article is on the internet. Does anybody have that mag? You could save me $5!

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Colleen did an interview for Soap Opera Digest which came out about 10 days ago, perhaps that is the issue that you saw. It's a pretty small format ( like Reader's Digest) magazine. OCF got nice mentions in the article. Her next interview is scheduled with TV Guide for about December 18th release. While she didn't discover it, she does understand that the vast majority of Americans have never even heard of it from her conversations with me. They wanted to get the public's attention, put it on their radar, and as we all know that is a core part of changing the incidence and death rate in the US

This is copied from my link above..

According to the newest TV Guide, Barbara will end up getting the same cancer(oral cancer) that CZP had in real life, it was pretty much her idea to do the story, because she was going to bring it up to the producer of the show, but he pitched the idea to her before she even had the chance to do it.

It says that she will get the news on January 2, and pretty much she says that Barbara is all alone when she gets the news, she gets it after being banned from the baptism of her grandchild. She pretty much prays for help right after finding out, she said they were very hard scenes to tape.

There is no word on how the story will turn out at the end because of the writers strike.

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This wasn't supposed to hit the news until after TV Guide published the interview on the 17th. Then OCF was going to do a PR story in the media about art imitating life and how many days the oral cancer story will get aired on national TV (millions of viewers per day) over several months, with yours truly as the the technical advisor to the show. It's a great story about how a producer, an actor, and a non-profit come together with an idea to inform the public about a disease, little heard of, through a story line in a daily drama that will last for more than a month and put lots of good information out there (unlike Grey's Anatomy, that got most of the disease issues wrong, had doctors who had never done a glossectomy doing her surgery, and treated the entire subject only as comic relief in the story line, as opposed to treating this killer with the seriousness they show other cancers). The person that put this out in their blog, spilled the beans too early and screwed up the timing of everything. But in this case art will imitate life with Colleen's character getting the disease she personally had herself. There is more than one way to spread the word....especially when you have no money.

I entered my comments about Colleen appearing on the Morning Show. A little late but it was accepted. Have great day all. Jim

that is a wonderful collaboration and a great way to spread the word. Sorry the news broke early and I hope thw writer's strike ends soon so it doesn't screw things up!