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Published on Saturday, September 06, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Skateboarder Tony Hawk, actor Shemar Moore and other celebrities said they joined in a three-network cancer telethon on Friday because the disease had touched or taken the lives of loved ones.
Hawk, who lost his father to lung cancer 15 years ago and a close friend to a brain tumor last month, called the timing of the Stand Up to Cancer telethon "poetic."
"I'm here doing whatever they ask of me," he told reporters before the telethon began. "As long as I don't have to sing or dance, it's all good."
Stand Up to Cancer, an organization that raises funds and awareness, put together the unprecedented, star-studded, live telethon airing simultaneously on ABC, NBC and CBS on Friday night.
Moore, who said his uncle's wife waged a successful three-year fight against cancer, was eager to answer phones for the cause.
"I'm gonna be sweet-talking some people and trying to reach into their pockets," said Moore, who stars on CBS' "Criminal Minds
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