Another celebrity connection

kellyh33
kellyh33 Member Posts: 287
edited March 2014 in Ovarian Cancer #1
I read last night that Patrick Dempsey's mother has had ovarian cancer 4 times. When are the celebrities going to start making some noise? Surely with their power they could raise public awareness.

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  • kikz
    kikz Member Posts: 1,345 Member
    #2
    Celebrity Noise
    A few months ago I emailed the Oprah show regarding her doing a program on ovarian cancer. I appealed to Oprah expressing the fact that so many people watch her program and what a great help that would be in raising awareness for our cause. I never received a response. Maybe we should all email all the talk shows.

    Karen
  • Lisa13Q
    Lisa13Q Member Posts: 677
    #3
    OK, I'M COMING OUT NOW...
    My full name is Lisa Jack. If you google me you will see that I took the famous photographs of President Obama in college. You are probably most familiar with the one of him smoking. Although I knew him well in college, and have a gallery (M+B) in Los Angeles, I have no idea how to market myself. So, you all feel free to....I am more than willing to do shots of celebs and have a show dedicated to OVCA..One of my photos raised $65k for the Elton John AIDS foundation...so now you have a connection....get me in and I'll do you good...Perhaps I need a publicist? I don't know.......
  • kellyh33
    kellyh33 Member Posts: 287
    #4
    kikz said:

    Celebrity Noise
    A few months ago I emailed the Oprah show regarding her doing a program on ovarian cancer. I appealed to Oprah expressing the fact that so many people watch her program and what a great help that would be in raising awareness for our cause. I never received a response. Maybe we should all email all the talk shows.

    Karen

    Oprah
    Oprah is in her last season so she may not be willing to take this on. Rosie O'Donnell is taking over so she may. We can e-mail Ellen and the others.
    Barak Obama's mother died of ovarian cancer too. It doesn't get much bigger than that.
  • Hissy_Fitz
    Hissy_Fitz Member Posts: 1,834
    #5
    Lisa13Q said:

    OK, I'M COMING OUT NOW...
    My full name is Lisa Jack. If you google me you will see that I took the famous photographs of President Obama in college. You are probably most familiar with the one of him smoking. Although I knew him well in college, and have a gallery (M+B) in Los Angeles, I have no idea how to market myself. So, you all feel free to....I am more than willing to do shots of celebs and have a show dedicated to OVCA..One of my photos raised $65k for the Elton John AIDS foundation...so now you have a connection....get me in and I'll do you good...Perhaps I need a publicist? I don't know.......

    Lisa....I love that I can
    Lisa....I love that I can say I "know" the person who took those photos! I am a bleeding heart liberal, so you can just imagine....

    Anyway, I think your idea is great but I am totally useless when it comes to PR. I don't know if a gallery show of celeb shots would do the trick or not.

    I used to be an aspiring photographer, too, and went to all the shows that I could, back in the day, and once in a blue moon now (my good friend and co-aspirer is still at it, in his spare time). The ones that really wowed me were the "faces of" shows. One that comes to mind from a recent show is Michael Nye's study on hunger (here's a link...
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/portraits_of_hunger.html).

    I know it's rather unlikely that you have the time and/or resources to travel around the country, photographing women with Ovarian Cancer, but I wish we could hook up with a pro who would/could give us that kind of exposure. I have always said that no one pays any attention to Ovarian Cancer until someone they love is diagnosed with it, or they fall victim to it themselves. We need a way to make it personal - to make it hit home - for people who never gave it a second thought.

    There is a long list of famous women who have had OC. Maybe a compilation of photos of them?

    Carlene
  • nancy591
    nancy591 Member Posts: 1,027 Member
    #6
    Hissy_Fitz said:

    Lisa....I love that I can
    Lisa....I love that I can say I "know" the person who took those photos! I am a bleeding heart liberal, so you can just imagine....

    Anyway, I think your idea is great but I am totally useless when it comes to PR. I don't know if a gallery show of celeb shots would do the trick or not.

    I used to be an aspiring photographer, too, and went to all the shows that I could, back in the day, and once in a blue moon now (my good friend and co-aspirer is still at it, in his spare time). The ones that really wowed me were the "faces of" shows. One that comes to mind from a recent show is Michael Nye's study on hunger (here's a link...
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/portraits_of_hunger.html).

    I know it's rather unlikely that you have the time and/or resources to travel around the country, photographing women with Ovarian Cancer, but I wish we could hook up with a pro who would/could give us that kind of exposure. I have always said that no one pays any attention to Ovarian Cancer until someone they love is diagnosed with it, or they fall victim to it themselves. We need a way to make it personal - to make it hit home - for people who never gave it a second thought.

    There is a long list of famous women who have had OC. Maybe a compilation of photos of them?

    Carlene

    liberal?
    Huh, who knew...I would have guessed you to be a Republican.....being from Texas.
  • Lisa13Q
    Lisa13Q Member Posts: 677
    #7
    Hissy_Fitz said:

    Lisa....I love that I can
    Lisa....I love that I can say I "know" the person who took those photos! I am a bleeding heart liberal, so you can just imagine....

    Anyway, I think your idea is great but I am totally useless when it comes to PR. I don't know if a gallery show of celeb shots would do the trick or not.

    I used to be an aspiring photographer, too, and went to all the shows that I could, back in the day, and once in a blue moon now (my good friend and co-aspirer is still at it, in his spare time). The ones that really wowed me were the "faces of" shows. One that comes to mind from a recent show is Michael Nye's study on hunger (here's a link...
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/portraits_of_hunger.html).

    I know it's rather unlikely that you have the time and/or resources to travel around the country, photographing women with Ovarian Cancer, but I wish we could hook up with a pro who would/could give us that kind of exposure. I have always said that no one pays any attention to Ovarian Cancer until someone they love is diagnosed with it, or they fall victim to it themselves. We need a way to make it personal - to make it hit home - for people who never gave it a second thought.

    There is a long list of famous women who have had OC. Maybe a compilation of photos of them?

    Carlene

    I would be happy to do that...if
    someone would tell me how to contact them..and if we could get the show...that part I can arrange with my gallery....who wants to contact the celebs and see if they are willing?
  • MK_4Dani
    MK_4Dani Member Posts: 314
    #8
    Lisa13Q said:

    I would be happy to do that...if
    someone would tell me how to contact them..and if we could get the show...that part I can arrange with my gallery....who wants to contact the celebs and see if they are willing?

    Very Cool
    Lisa,
    Checked out the pictures and thought wow you are a woman with a high moral fiber: holding the negatives until after election. Very cool pictures.

    MK
  • Hissy_Fitz
    Hissy_Fitz Member Posts: 1,834
    #9
    nancy591 said:

    liberal?
    Huh, who knew...I would have guessed you to be a Republican.....being from Texas.

    Not everyone in Texas is a
    Not everyone in Texas is a Republican!!!! Thank God!!!!

    Time was, Texas was a blue as they come. In 2002, Texas Republicans gained control of the Texas House of Representatives for the first time since Reconstruction.

    I still hold out hope for my fellow Texans.
  • kayandok
    kayandok Member Posts: 1,202 Member
    #10
    Lisa13Q said:

    OK, I'M COMING OUT NOW...
    My full name is Lisa Jack. If you google me you will see that I took the famous photographs of President Obama in college. You are probably most familiar with the one of him smoking. Although I knew him well in college, and have a gallery (M+B) in Los Angeles, I have no idea how to market myself. So, you all feel free to....I am more than willing to do shots of celebs and have a show dedicated to OVCA..One of my photos raised $65k for the Elton John AIDS foundation...so now you have a connection....get me in and I'll do you good...Perhaps I need a publicist? I don't know.......

    I love that you are coming out!
    Now, maybe we can all brain storm a way to get something going, I live in Japan, as you know, and probably am not much help, but I do think that a combo of you, Obama and Oprah would get a lot of attention. Maybe going on the show to talk about when you did the shoot etc, and then having an updated phots shoot, to show of Obama. Of-course the tricky part, as we all know is getting on Oprah. She does love the Obama family though......

    I am very curious about all the PINK publicity and if there are a bunch of people coordinting that or if it is a very powerful team doing most of it. I just got back from a trip to the States, and was offered a PINK martini, or a PINK lemonade for a $2 donation to breast cancer. PINK is everywhere, as has been a topic here many times....

    kathleen
  • Hissy_Fitz
    Hissy_Fitz Member Posts: 1,834
    #11
    kayandok said:

    I love that you are coming out!
    Now, maybe we can all brain storm a way to get something going, I live in Japan, as you know, and probably am not much help, but I do think that a combo of you, Obama and Oprah would get a lot of attention. Maybe going on the show to talk about when you did the shoot etc, and then having an updated phots shoot, to show of Obama. Of-course the tricky part, as we all know is getting on Oprah. She does love the Obama family though......

    I am very curious about all the PINK publicity and if there are a bunch of people coordinting that or if it is a very powerful team doing most of it. I just got back from a trip to the States, and was offered a PINK martini, or a PINK lemonade for a $2 donation to breast cancer. PINK is everywhere, as has been a topic here many times....

    kathleen

    The story behind the pink
    The huge "push" behind Breast Cancer awareness is almost entirely fueld by the Susan G Komen Foundation. Since its inception in 1982, Komen has invested over $1.5 billion for research, education and health services,making it the largest breast cancer charity in the world. Today, Komen has more than 100,000 volunteers working in a network of 125 affiliates worldwide.

    Susan Goodman Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33. She died three years later, in 1980. Komen's younger sister, Nancy Goodman Brinker, made a promise to her dying sister that she would find a way to speed up breast cancer research. Nancy Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Komen's memory in 1982.

    It helped tremendously that Nancy was married to Norman Brinker, a wealthy businessman who provided funds and methodology for building the Komen foundation.

    For her work on breast cancer research, Time magazine named Brinker to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Calling her "a catalyst to ease suffering in the world," President Barack Obama honored Brinker with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor on August 12, 2009.
  • leesag
    leesag Member Posts: 621 Member
    #12
    Hissy_Fitz said:

    The story behind the pink
    The huge "push" behind Breast Cancer awareness is almost entirely fueld by the Susan G Komen Foundation. Since its inception in 1982, Komen has invested over $1.5 billion for research, education and health services,making it the largest breast cancer charity in the world. Today, Komen has more than 100,000 volunteers working in a network of 125 affiliates worldwide.

    Susan Goodman Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33. She died three years later, in 1980. Komen's younger sister, Nancy Goodman Brinker, made a promise to her dying sister that she would find a way to speed up breast cancer research. Nancy Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Komen's memory in 1982.

    It helped tremendously that Nancy was married to Norman Brinker, a wealthy businessman who provided funds and methodology for building the Komen foundation.

    For her work on breast cancer research, Time magazine named Brinker to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Calling her "a catalyst to ease suffering in the world," President Barack Obama honored Brinker with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor on August 12, 2009.

    Snarky Comment....
    I bet they tried to make it pink.
  • kayandok
    kayandok Member Posts: 1,202 Member
    #13
    Hissy_Fitz said:

    The story behind the pink
    The huge "push" behind Breast Cancer awareness is almost entirely fueld by the Susan G Komen Foundation. Since its inception in 1982, Komen has invested over $1.5 billion for research, education and health services,making it the largest breast cancer charity in the world. Today, Komen has more than 100,000 volunteers working in a network of 125 affiliates worldwide.

    Susan Goodman Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33. She died three years later, in 1980. Komen's younger sister, Nancy Goodman Brinker, made a promise to her dying sister that she would find a way to speed up breast cancer research. Nancy Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Komen's memory in 1982.

    It helped tremendously that Nancy was married to Norman Brinker, a wealthy businessman who provided funds and methodology for building the Komen foundation.

    For her work on breast cancer research, Time magazine named Brinker to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Calling her "a catalyst to ease suffering in the world," President Barack Obama honored Brinker with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor on August 12, 2009.

    No wonder!
    I did not know this info, but had a hunch that there was some huge money pushing at the top. Thanks for sharing this, Carlene.
    k
  • rhondanna
    rhondanna Member Posts: 8
    #14
    Lisa13Q said:

    I would be happy to do that...if
    someone would tell me how to contact them..and if we could get the show...that part I can arrange with my gallery....who wants to contact the celebs and see if they are willing?

    OC photo series
    I am willing to take some time in the next couple of weeks tracking down celebrity information. I know a couple of folks in Los Angeles and New York that might be able to help. Any leads anyone has they can post here or send to my email address: rhondanna@yahoo.com

    Here are a couple I have found:

    Coretta Scott King - widow of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Marcheline Bertrand - mother of Angelina Jolie
    Gilda Radner - wife of Gene Wilder
    Kathy Bates - I actually know someone who knows her
  • nancy591
    nancy591 Member Posts: 1,027 Member
    #15
    rhondanna said:

    OC photo series
    I am willing to take some time in the next couple of weeks tracking down celebrity information. I know a couple of folks in Los Angeles and New York that might be able to help. Any leads anyone has they can post here or send to my email address: rhondanna@yahoo.com

    Here are a couple I have found:

    Coretta Scott King - widow of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Marcheline Bertrand - mother of Angelina Jolie
    Gilda Radner - wife of Gene Wilder
    Kathy Bates - I actually know someone who knows her

    famous people
    here is a list of famous people with ovca:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_with_ovarian_cancer


    included are:
    Pierce Bronson's wife, Cassandra Harris, age 43.
    Madeline Kahn, age 57
    James Dean's mom, Mildred Dean, left him motherless at age 9yrs
    Gilda Radner, age 42
    Dina Shore, age 77
    Jessica Tandy, age 85 (we should all be so lucky!!!)
    Sheri Lewis
    Patsy Ramsy

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