9/18/2004 Newport Beach OCF New release, PR Newswire Actress Blythe Danner, a star in the new Showtime television series "Huff" and widow of the late producer/director Bruce Paltrow, recently donated her time to create a television public service announcement on behalf of the Oral Cancer Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes annual screenings and early detection to reduce the death rate from the disease that claimed her husband in 2002. The PSAs will begin airing on television stations nationwide in October and November. At the time of the PSA filming, TV shows Entertainment Tonight and Insider filmed interviews with Danner in which the actress, mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and writer-director Jake Paltrow, explains her drive for awareness about oral cancer, which strikes approximately 30,000 Americans annually. Only half of those diagnosed with it will survive five years-- that's a death rate of one person every hour of each day. The message-- that if found early the cancer is highly survivable, and that an annual screening for the disease should be part of everyone's medical routine-- is the focus of her statement. The PSA was a collaboration involving effort from longtime Hollywood personalities including writer-producer Eric Lapidus, producer-director Scott Winant, actress Blythe Danner, assisting Oral Cancer Foundation founder Brian Hill. All donated their time and assets to make the PSA possible. Even the film crew of Winant and Danner's new TV series, Huff, donated their lunchtime on the set to film the PSA. “I was really touched by how everyone [...]