Gina Telaroli
September 10, 2008 | 3:44 pm EST
Andy Kondrat:
Sam Bottoms passed away on Tuesday of glioblastoma multiforme, a virulent brain cancer, he was 53 years old. The actor brother of Timothy, Joesph and Ben made his screen debut in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show at age 15 (along with his brother Timothy) and more recently he appeared in SherryBaby and Shopgirl. My favorite Sam Bottoms role has to be his portrayal of surfer GI Lance Johnson in Apocalypse Now.
In honor of Sam takepart with Stand Up 2 Cancer and watch the clips below. The first (in which he sits in the background, but it seemed appropriate) is from The Last Picture Show. The second, which is after the jump, comes from Apocalypse Now.
I’ve been posting a lot of Stand Up 2 Cancer Videos both before and after the broadcast last Friday. The one below might be my favorite. It’s quite poignant and put together in a way that only the amazing Errol Morris could manage:
According to Boing Boing it’s an excerpt from a larger project. If it is anything like the clip above I both can’t wait and don’t want to see it…
While I like the idea of all these superstar ladies singing to help stop cancer, I don’t actually like what all of them singing together sounds like…
What do you think?
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Nicole Hughes:
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A Survey of the Top 10 Greenest Presidents
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Jon Popham:
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Giulia Rozzi:
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Gina Telaroli:
Stand Up 2 Cancer Tonight - and watch the video below from The Daily Show!
1) The Daily Show: **** You, Cancer - Stand Up!
For the Cinema YouTube Video of the Day, Click here >>>\
With the Stand Up 2 Cancer ( standup2cancer.org) telethon/celebrity extravaganza set to air tomorrow night, I got to thinking about cancer. I’ve had a few family members who’ve had it, but they all survived and lived elsewhere, meaning I didn’t much have contact with cancer itself. In fact, the closest I’ve probably come to cancer is in the movies and on TV. And as cancer is something that seems to have an impact on almost everyone these days, it’s good that there are films out there that deal with it - and thus help us all deal with it.
Below are my Top 10 Cancer Movies - some are real weepies, others simply address the spirit of living while we can. The film directly below however, looks at it from a different perspective…
10. Fight Club - When Edward Norton’s character starts to attend cancer group support meeting to help him sleep we get a sneak peak into the dark world of dealing with cancer. As the movie goes on we get an important message about how we should live our lives. Although I have to say, that white ball of healing light thing has never helped me….
Time flies and tomorrow night marks the historic Stand Up 2 Cancer broadcast on all 3 major networks. We’ve been bringing you news about this exciting effort to make a huge dent in curing cancer since it was announced in late May and are looking forward to the broadcast tomorrow night.
In the meantime, give a watch to the video below. It helps explain the financial model of Stand Up 2 Cancer, features animation from Jim Cooper (creator of “Why We Fight,” the popular viral video outlining the WGA’s position during the Writers Strike) and is narrated by Paul Rudd.
1) Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C) PSA (I’m not sure why but every time I watch this PSA I tear up..)
For the Cinema YouTube Video of the Day, Click here>>
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Really, everyone is standing up to cancer:
The Big Three television networks NBC, CBS and ABC have never done anything like it before. On Friday, Sept. 5, their news anchors Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, respectively will sit on one set for a commercial-free, prime-time simulcast entitled Stand Up to Cancer. [MSNBC]
Major League Baseball is teaming up with entertainers, foundations, businesses and three of the top four television networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — in the quest to find a cure for cancer.
The new initiative, called “Stand Up To Cancer,” was introduced on Wednesday morning on all three networks and at press conferences at the Paley Center for Media in New York. It will also be introduced in Beverley Hills later today.
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