Do Your Part to ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ – Tonight!

Tonight, stars from TV, movies, sports and music will join together and lend their collective voices to a cause that seems to be one of the unfortunate common threads that connects us all — cancer.

For one hour we can forget about Twitter wars, ratings struggles and commercials. It’s a chance to see some of our favorite performers in a different setting and for a good cause.

Stand Up To Cancer is an initiative created to accelerate groundbreaking cancer research that will get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives. SU2C’s goal is to bring together the best and the brightest in the cancer community, encouraging collaboration instead of competition.

Tonight’s one hour, commercial-free telecast, hosted by Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer, will help to raise money to find a cure for cancer.

Stand Up To Cancer will air at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Discovery Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, Showtime, The Style Network and TV One and streaming on over 30 websites.

Donations to SU2C can be made via telephone during the show, anytime online at www.su2c.org or Text STAND to 40202 to give $10 now. 100% of the funds received from the public go to research.

As someone who has lost friends and relatives to cancer, and who continually feels the need to stand up and fight for those friends and relatives STILL fighting their valiant battles against it, I’m drawn to this type of event.

Cancer is no respecter of persons. It doesn’t play favorites or choose its victims based on wealth or popularity. We’d be hard pressed to find someone we know who has NOT been affected by cancer in some way. And it’s that sort of human condition that makes it all so personal. And that is why it’s important for networks, musicians, writers, actors, bloggers, fans, all of us to join together as a united front and say, “We’re standing up”.

So even if you’ll be sitting at home on Friday night, I hope you’ll choose to StandUp2Cancer.

For a list of stars slated to appear, keep reading…

Film ,TV and Sports stars scheduled to appear on the September 10th show include:

Aaron Yoo Abigail Breslin Adam Sandler Alison Sweeney Alyson Hannigan Anne Heche Apolo Anton Ohno Aubrey Plaza Bill Hader Cheryl Hines Christina Applegate Cindy Crawford Dave Annable David Archuleta David Boreanaz Denzel Washington Derek Fisher Diane Lane Diane Sawyer Donald Faison Dorothy Hamill Dr. Ana Maria Polo Dr. Jon Lapook

Dr. Mehmet Oz Dr. Sanjay Gupta Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Edwards Eric Stonestreet Ethan Zohn Fran Drescher Gabrielle Union George Clooney Gwyneth Paltrow Jim Parsons Jon Heder Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kathy Bates Katie Couric Ken Jeong Kristen Bell Lisa Niemi Mandy Moore Marcia Strassman Marg Helgenberger Marissa Winokur

Marlee Matlin Matt Passmore Maura Tierney Michael C. Hall Michael O’Malley Minka Kelly Olivia Munn Randy Jackson Rashida Jones Ray Liotta Renée Zellweger Rob Lowe Robin Roberts Ryan Seacrest Sally Field Sam Trammell Seth MacFarlane Sofia Vassilieva Thomas Jane Tony Hawk Vanessa Hudgens Zachary Levi

Musical guests scheduled to perform on the September 10th show include:

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day Neil Diamond Jakob Dylan The Edge Delta Goodrem Herbie Hancock Kris Kristofferson Lady Antebellum Fitz and The Tantrums

Leona Lewis Orianthi Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart Natasha Bedingfield Queen Latifah Martina McBride Aaron Neville Dave Stewart Stevie Wonder