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These are precisely the kinds of challenges that gave rise to Stand Up to Cancer, the advocacy group organized by CBS newscaster Katie Couric and eight other women, all of them connected to Hollywood, including Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, who has breast cancer. Says Couric, who lost her husband and sister to cancer: "It was clear to me and other people that this borders on the ridiculous. You ask yourself: What can be done?" SU2C has a scheduled Sept. 5 launch with an unprecedented three-network simulcast, hosted by Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson. It features a roster...
...that is different. SU2C will not distribute funds to research institutions. Instead, it will assemble dream teams of scientists across disciplines and institutions, and they will work collaboratively on projects designed to deliver a product of sorts--as opposed to an academic paper--within a defined time period. Says Ziskin: "They can only get funded if they can produce a treatment...
...going to win the game," says Armstrong. One of SU2C's advisers was the late Judah Folkman, a famed cancer scientist whose pathbreaking theory that tumors grow via angiogenesis (creating their own blood supply) was resisted for decades. "There may be other Judah Folkmans out there," says Ziskin. "We don't want them wandering around for 40 years...
...ready for Chuck Taylors on the red carpet. ELLEN DEGENERES, the comedian and talk-show host known for her casual style, has just been announced as M.C. of Hollywood's most glamorous night, the Oscars. "Ellen completely fits the bill," says the show's producer, Laura Ziskin. By that we assume she means that, like former hosts Billy Crystal and Jon Stewart, DeGeneres is funny and warm and not that, like Crystal and Stewart, she's hardly ever in good movies...
...July 17]. The doctrine has stoked the fires of nuclear proliferation. By invading Iraq, which had no WMD, and offering diplomacy and concessions to nations with full or developing nuclear-weapons programs, the U.S. has signaled that potential adversaries should scramble to get nukes as quickly as possible. Zach Ziskin Fort Lauderdale, Florida...