As previously reported, fans of Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann (Luke and
Noah on "As The World Turns") kicked off Project Holiday Spirit on December 1st. Fans took a two-pronged approach to show their faves the true meaning of the holiday season. First, donations were collected for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. As of today, fans have donated $6,300 for the charity.
Fans also mailed holiday cards for the actors and more than 170 were received. Cards were sent in from all over the world including Japan, Brazil, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Canada and the United States.
Hansis had blogged in late November about Christmas:
So what else....uh....it is the holiday season. Again. I like Thanksgiving. I'm not too huge on Christmas. It seems like in America our holidays have simply turned into ways to spend more money. It also seems the
Christmas season is almost like forced emotion. It is like the (commercial) world is telling you: you must be happy! You must buy presents for everyone! Not to be a grinch or anything, and maybe this is just me trying to be subversive, but I don't like being told that I should be cheerful and get in 'the holiday spirit'. I think Thanksgiving has much more spirit, because it isn't about buying things for the people you love, it's about spending time with them. There is much less of a material push to it. It's about cooking a meal and eating that meal with the people you would most like to cook and eat a meal with. I think that is pretty beautiful. I loved Christmas as a kid, but now, for whatever reason, and I really have no idea why, it makes me feel kind of blue. I am going to try harder this year though. I guess under the material stuff, the season is about connection with loved ones, I'm going to focus on that this year. It has been a really wonderful year for me, so at least I should celebrate that. In their January 1st issue, Soap Opera Digest named Project Holiday Spirit the "Fan Campaign of the Week").
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