Living Proof</i>" style="margin:0 5px 5px" />Strong women battling breast cancer. A sympathetic hero fighting for a cure. An ensemble of gifted actresses and a sexy charmer as their white knight. A three-hankie script and a four-hankie ending. Living Proof (Saturday, Oct. 18 at 9 pm/Et) might be Lifetime's most Lifetime-y movie ever. And yet the inspiring story, based on pioneering oncologist Dennis Slamon's dogged pursuit for a cure, took seven years to get to the screen — a struggle nearly as hard-fought as Slamon's battle to take his breast-cancer drug, Herceptin, to patients. "Dennis Slamon became a hero to me," says scriptwriter Vivienne Radkoff, who had read Robert Bazell's 1998 book Her-2, chronicling Slamon's efforts to get Herceptin on the market. "I was obsessed, but something would always stop the project." One interested producer had to drop out after being diagnosed with breast cancer herself.
Eventually, Radkoff's script would find some...
Eventually, Radkoff's script would find some...
- 10/17/2008
- by Ileane Rudolph
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Living Proof</i>" style="margin:0 5px 5px" />Strong women battling breast cancer. A sympathetic hero fighting for a cure. An ensemble of gifted actresses and a sexy charmer as their white knight. A three-hankie script and a four-hankie ending. Living Proof (Saturday, Oct. 18 at 9 pm/Et) might be Lifetime's most Lifetime-y movie ever. And yet the inspiring story, based on pioneering oncologist Dennis Slamon's dogged pursuit for a cure, took seven years to get to the screen — a struggle nearly as hard-fought as Slamon's battle to take his breast-cancer drug, Herceptin, to patients. "Dennis Slamon became a hero to me," says scriptwriter Vivienne Radkoff, who had read Robert Bazell's 1998 book Her-2, chronicling Slamon's efforts to get Herceptin on the market. "I was obsessed, but something would always stop the project." One interested producer had to drop out after being diagnosed with breast cancer herself.
Eventually, Radkoff's script would find some...
Eventually, Radkoff's script would find some...
- 10/17/2008
- by Ileane Rudolph
- TVGuide - Breaking News
An all-star cast has been assembled for Lifetime's original movie Living Proof.
Angie Harmon, Amanda Bynes, Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Trudie Styler, Tammy Blanchard, John Benjamin Hickey and Paula Cale have joined Harry Connick Jr. in the movie, from executive producers Renee Zellweger, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
Proof, from Zadan and Meron's Storyline Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, is based on Robert Bazell's book and centers on Dennis Slamon (Connick), the UCLA Doctor Who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin. The movie, filming in New Orleans, is set to air in October.
Bynes plays Slamon's student assistant. Harmon portrays Lilly Tartikoff, wife of former NBC entertainment chief Brandon Tartikoff and the person responsible for raising money to continue Slamon's research. Blanchard is the first woman to receive Herceptin, while Kurtz plays her grandmother.
Peters plays the first woman in to be saved by Herceptin, while Styler and Coolidge play participants in the drug study.
Angie Harmon, Amanda Bynes, Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Trudie Styler, Tammy Blanchard, John Benjamin Hickey and Paula Cale have joined Harry Connick Jr. in the movie, from executive producers Renee Zellweger, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
Proof, from Zadan and Meron's Storyline Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, is based on Robert Bazell's book and centers on Dennis Slamon (Connick), the UCLA Doctor Who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin. The movie, filming in New Orleans, is set to air in October.
Bynes plays Slamon's student assistant. Harmon portrays Lilly Tartikoff, wife of former NBC entertainment chief Brandon Tartikoff and the person responsible for raising money to continue Slamon's research. Blanchard is the first woman to receive Herceptin, while Kurtz plays her grandmother.
Peters plays the first woman in to be saved by Herceptin, while Styler and Coolidge play participants in the drug study.
- 6/16/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Renee Zellweger is reteaming with her Chicago producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to executive produce Living Proof, an original movie for Lifetime.
Toplining the movie is Harry Connick Jr., Zellweger's co-star in the upcoming feature Chilled in Miami.
Proof, from Sony Pictures TV, tells the true story of Denny Slamon (Connick), a UCLA doctor who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin 2, and his relentless battle to keep the drug trials afloat and save the lives of thousands of women. It's based on a book by NBC medical correspondent Robert Bazell.
The caliber of talent involved in the film represents the evolution of network's original-movie strategy under Lifetime Networks president and CEO Andrea Wong and president of entertainment Susanne Daniels.
Daniels said that when she joined the network in September 2005, she became aware of the "loyalty and passion" viewers had for the network's original films.
"I recognized that there was an opportunity to go in a direction where we could reinvigorate the movies and in doing so reinvigorate the brand," she said.
Toplining the movie is Harry Connick Jr., Zellweger's co-star in the upcoming feature Chilled in Miami.
Proof, from Sony Pictures TV, tells the true story of Denny Slamon (Connick), a UCLA doctor who developed the breast cancer drug Herceptin 2, and his relentless battle to keep the drug trials afloat and save the lives of thousands of women. It's based on a book by NBC medical correspondent Robert Bazell.
The caliber of talent involved in the film represents the evolution of network's original-movie strategy under Lifetime Networks president and CEO Andrea Wong and president of entertainment Susanne Daniels.
Daniels said that when she joined the network in September 2005, she became aware of the "loyalty and passion" viewers had for the network's original films.
"I recognized that there was an opportunity to go in a direction where we could reinvigorate the movies and in doing so reinvigorate the brand," she said.
NEW YORK -- NBC News is planning a major multiplatform push for a weeklong series on the medical care of soldiers wounded in the Iraq war.
Wounds of War, reported by chief health/science correspondent Robert Bazell, will air each day Monday through Friday on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams along with an additional report on the weekend news and at least one piece on Today and an hourlong MSNBC documentary in late March.
The reports take an in-depth look at the state of U.S. military medical care in Iraq, which has an amazing -- 96% -- survival rate for the wounded soldiers who make it alive to combat hospitals. Bazell toured three hospitals -- two Army and one Air Force -- talked to medivac personnel and even flew on the U.S. Air Force C-17 jets that serve as airborne intensive care units ferrying the wounded from Iraq to American military hospitals in Germany and then to the U.S.
The reports include interviews with the doctors, nurses and medics treating the wounded as well as some of the wounded themselves.
It was an eye-opening experience for Bazell, who traveled to Iraq to cover the story. He had never been in Iraq, much less to the military hospitals in Balad, Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
Wounds of War, reported by chief health/science correspondent Robert Bazell, will air each day Monday through Friday on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams along with an additional report on the weekend news and at least one piece on Today and an hourlong MSNBC documentary in late March.
The reports take an in-depth look at the state of U.S. military medical care in Iraq, which has an amazing -- 96% -- survival rate for the wounded soldiers who make it alive to combat hospitals. Bazell toured three hospitals -- two Army and one Air Force -- talked to medivac personnel and even flew on the U.S. Air Force C-17 jets that serve as airborne intensive care units ferrying the wounded from Iraq to American military hospitals in Germany and then to the U.S.
The reports include interviews with the doctors, nurses and medics treating the wounded as well as some of the wounded themselves.
It was an eye-opening experience for Bazell, who traveled to Iraq to cover the story. He had never been in Iraq, much less to the military hospitals in Balad, Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
- 2/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Former ABC News medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman has signed a deal to return to TV as NBC News' chief medical editor. Snyderman is familiar to viewers as the former Good Morning America substitute co-host and 20/20 medical correspondent who left television in 2002. She had been vp consumer education at Johnson & Johnson for four years before joining NBC. She also is with the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery. At NBC, she'll work for the NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams as well as Today, Dateline NBC and MSNBC, among NBC Universal-owned news platforms. She will work with NBC chief science correspondent Robert Bazell.
- 8/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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