Stars come out to fight cancer

By Mark Humbert, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published August 31, 2008 at 3 p.m.

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Prime choice

Stand Up to Cancer

* 7 p.m. Friday, CBS4, Denver's 7, 9News

An hourlong fundraiser for cancer research features reports by network news anchors Brian Williams, Charles Gibson and Katie Couric.

And no special would be worth a prime-time slot - even on a Friday - without its share of celebrities.

The long line of red-carpet-caliber boldface names will include Lance Armstrong, Christina Applegate, Elizabeth Edwards, Robin Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Charlize Theron, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Salma Hayek, David Cook, Dana Delany, Abigail Breslin, Scarlett Johansson, Masi Oka, and Marge and Homer Simpson.

Highlights also include Delany undergoing a mammogram and Couric and Breslin visiting patients at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

What? You want music? Fifteen female vocalists leave their diva-ness at the door to perform a special song together - live. Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood raise their voices on Just Stand Up, a charity tune conceived by Antonio ("L.A.") Reid. The song is scheduled to be released Tuesday for radio play and for sale on iTunes.

If this keeps up, television will have its own annual version of Charity Week, with bookends of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon on the long weekend and Stand Up to Cancer on all three networks Friday.

Oh, and the MTV Music Awards on Sunday. Who will be this year's rehab poster child?

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