Israel Cancer Research Fund Honors Actor Michael Douglas, Dr. Morton Coleman, Dean Blumenthal at Gala on November 28 in New York
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The first honoree, Michael Douglas, is an actor with over forty years of experience in theatre, film, and television, branched out into independent feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest".Over the years, he has been involved in controversial and politically influential pictures--"The China Syndrome," "Traffic" --and popular films such as "Fatal Attraction" and "Romancing the Stone".He is the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for New Jersey, and a board member of the Center for Retailing Excellence at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas."Michael Douglas is a courageous and forthright survivor/advocate, Dean and his family have been spectacularly generous and were leaders of this organization for many years, while Morton Coleman is a physician, researcher, healer and humanitarian without peer.NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) Tower of Hope Gala paid tribute to Actor Michael Douglas, Dean Blumenthal, Executive Vice President and COO of Lion Brand Yarn Company, and Dr. Morton Coleman, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College and the Director of the Center for Lymphoma and Myeloma at the New York- Presbyterian Hospital on November 28 at the Ziegfield Ballroom in New York.