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10K Raised for The Revlon Run/Walk by The Farber Center Team

May 3rd, 2011

Saturday morning we completed our first Revlon Run Walk for Women as The Farber Center Team and raised $10,000.

The Run/Walk is co-sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, so celebrities always kick off the race with motivational speeches. This year’s guests included Keesha Cole, Jessica Alba, Jimmy Fallon, Nate Berkus and Doctor Oz.

(L-R) Nate Berkus,Jessica Alba,Dr. Mehmet Oz, Jessica Biel and Jimmy Fallon attend the 14th annual Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk for Women on April 30, 2011 in New York City.

The Revlon Run always starts in Times Square and ends in Central Park. Money raised from the New York event will help support local New York-based cancer organizations including: The Actors’ Fund, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Cancer Care, Gilda’s Club NYC, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, William F. Ryan Community Health Center, EIF’s Women’s Cancer Programs.

Dr. Marnee Spierer, Marina Higgins, Dr. Leonard Farber

(L-R) Dr. Marnee Spierer, Team Captain Marina Higgins, Dr. Leonard Farber

Here is more coverage of the Revlon Run/Walk: Fox News Coverage

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The Farber Center Walks for Cancer

April 18th, 2011

Marina Higgins VP Argo Real Estate

On April 30th, The Farber Center Team lead by our patient Marina, will walk for the 14th Annual Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk in New York City.
The EIF Revlon Run Walk was created in 1994 through the committed and collective efforts of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, Lilly Tartikoff and Ronald O. Perelman. The EIF Revlon Run/Walk for Women has grown to become one of the nation’s largest 5K fundraising events. To date, the Run/Walks (in Los Angeles and New York) have distributed over $60 million for cancer research, treatment, counseling and outreach programs. Thanks in part to these funds, new treatments are being developed and lives are being saved.

Your donation will help fund important research into the cause and cure of women’s cancers, prevention, education and support service programs.

So please donate if you can. Here is the link: DONATE

Team t-shirt by our friend Dan McClure: his email:dan@eastcoastsportswear.com

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Posted in Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Skin Cancer

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ROCKS AGAINST CANCER VIDEO

August 27th, 2010

ROCKS AGAINST CANCER from Grace Huang on Vimeo.

Because everybody knows someone, the Rocks Against Cancer video is here. My dear friend Grace Huang put together an amazing crew that donated their time and resources to this project. Their goal like ours is to raise as much money as possible for EIF’s cancer programs.

I want to give a special thanks to our talent: Josh Brown, Toni Belafonte, Alyssa McGarry, Joe Stevens, Maria Diaz, Lisa Wagner, Hank Chen, Herman Mc Dowell, Samantha Stanley, Maye Musk, Allen Enlow, Dipti Mehta, and Lindsey Simcik. These are all real people touched by cancer who, volunteered their time for this video.

Thank you again to the crew: Director and editor Grace Huang, Creative Director Marilyn Kam, Producer Jessica Haselkorn, Producer Katy Fuoco, 1st Photo Assistant Everett Meisner, 2nd photo assistant Luke Barber-Smith, Donna Grossman Casting, Canoe Studios, Industrial Color, Stylist Karin Bereson + No.6 Store, Stylist Sylvia Grieser, Makeup Sam Coffey and Cynthia Sobek, Hair Decyke Heidorn and Rheanne White, without whom this would not be possible.

I hope you enjoy the video. please take the time to click on the share button below and spread the word..

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John Lithgow will chair Rocks Against Cancer!

August 23rd, 2010

Lithgow is a native New Yorker born October 19, 1945 in Rochester NY. He is a distinguished actor of stage, television, and movies who is at home playing everything from menacing villains, big-hearted transsexuals, and loopy aliens. John Lithgow is also a composer and performer of children’s songs, a Harvard graduate, a talented painter, and a devoted husband and father.

He attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1967. He lived in Dunster House as an undergraduate, across the hall from roommates former Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones. Lithgow later served on its Board of Overseers. Lithgow credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited with helping him decide to become an actor. After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Lithgow is known for his roles as the Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose, Dick Solomon on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek, and Arthur Mitchell on Showtime’s Dexter for which he just won an Emmy for best Actor in a drama and a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. He appeared in the films The World According to Garp (1982) and Terms of Endearment (1983), receiving the Academy Award nomination for best actor in a supporting role for each.

On the stage, he appeared in the musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success, winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He again appeared in a musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, receiving the Tony nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of children’s music, Singin’ in the Bathtub, and has written poetry and short stories for children, such as Marsupial Sue.

Mr. Lithgow is a true Renaissance man. We are honored to have him as our chair for Rocks Against Cancer.

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Eclectic Method at Rocks Against Cancer

August 23rd, 2010

Performing at Rocks Against Cancer a fundraiser for EIF’s cancer programs will be Eclectic Method featuring London natives Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen – who helped pioneer the emerging art of audio-visual mixing since first cutting U2’s Mysterious Ways music video with the Beastie Boys’ back in 2002.

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The trio’s audio-visual mash-ups feature television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance floor events. It’s a cyclone of music and images mashed together in a world where Kill Bill fight scenes and Dave Chappelle’s Rick James rants are ingeniously cut and looped over bootleg samples, DVD scratches and pumped-up dance anthems. It’s a real-time subversion of technology and media performed live on video turntables for what LA Weekly called a “mesmerizing” sensory overload.

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