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| 06.16.07 Congratulations to Fran for being featured on the Oxygen channel's "50 Funniest Women Alive". We always knew she was the funniest! Fran is scheduled to appear on "The View" on Wednesday, June 20th. The July issue of Ladies Home Journal has a two page article on Fran and her fight against cancer. There are pictures from the LWF promos, and mention of a children's book on self-esteem, a romantic comedy she's written and hopes to direct, and thinking of adoption/using her eggs with a surrogate. Fran spoke at the Trumbull Marriot in Connecticut on April 30th for the Norma F Pfriem Cancer Intstitute at Bridgeport Hospital. Her speech topic was "Turning Negatives into Positives." Here are some short clips of her speech provided by our own Flow. 04.02.07 Fran will be delivering the closing keynote speech at "Women's Health & the Environment" conference at Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Friday, April 20th. Fran will be guest starring in a show on NBC titled "Thank God You're Here" which is scheduled to premier on April 18, 2007, on NBC. 12.06.06 Fran For Congress? Will Fran run for Congress? According to "The Hill" she is. "Advocate for now, Drescher says public office run possible . She sure sounds like a member of Congress. Fran Drescher, best known as the actress who portrayed “The Nanny” in the sitcom of the same name, has her congressional lingo down pat. She tells us she’s on Capitol Hill today to lobby to get a “UC” (that’s Senate-speak for “unanimous consent”) on legislation promoting early detection of gynecological cancers. “I think it would be such a positive way to end the 109th,” she says. As in the 109th Congress, natch. Drescher, a uterine cancer survivor and author of “Cancer Schmancer,” is reluctant to talk about her own political ambitions, although she admits to harboring some. It’s an exciting time for women in politics, an exciting frontier that I someday hope to explore,” she says. She’s also coy about what party she would identify with or when she’d consider a run. On this visit to Washington she wants to focus on her lobbying efforts for S. 1172, a bill aimed at educating healthcare providers about screening for and diagnosing uterine and ovarian cancers. “They are so often misdiagnosed, because the early warning signs are similar to more benign diseases,” Drescher says. And doctors often don’t screen for cancer because doing so is often expensive, she adds. Drescher is targeting Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), because his committee has jurisdiction over the bill. And displaying the savvy of a veteran K Streeter, Drescher has mapped out a way to pass the bill in the last few days of the 109th. “Maybe we can attach it to something else heading to the floor,” she says. The 2007 calendar that Fran posed in for the Animal Rescue Foundation is available to order now. Fran Drescher hosts a holiday special called "A Chanukah Celebration" (9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, PBS; check local listings). |
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