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...France, they call him Le Roi de Crazy for his comedy roots, but in the U.S. Jerry Lewis is known these days as the King of Telethons. The actor has hosted an epic television outreach for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) since 1955, when his first 16½-hour show raised more than $600,000 in a live broadcast from Carnegie Hall in New York City. That was before Lewis became the official host and was given the ratings-challenged Labor Day slot to host the show, and since then it's become an even greater test of a performer...
...speakers, Nisreen Abdallah, a youth director at OneVoice Palestine, and Roi Assaf, a youth director at OneVoice Israel, spoke about their personal experiences living in Palestine and Israel during the conflict...
...numbers, even small ones, easily. Though you may have never heard of it, the condition is much more than being bad at math. "You need to hear people suffering from dyscalculia, how hard it is for them to do everyday things, just going to the shop, counting change," says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a research fellow at University College London (UCL). Other practical impossibilities for dyscalculics: balancing a checkbook, planning for retirement, being a baseball fan. The list goes...
Today the top 20 radio groups own at least 3,000 stations out of 11,000 outlets. In came economies of scale, calcified playlists, ROI and Dr. Laura, and out went boss jocks and news on the half-hour. Corporate stations generated some $18 billion in revenue last year, vs. the independents' $394 million, reports BIA Financial Network Inc. Along the way, though, Big Radio lost a good chunk of bored 18-to-24-year-olds, many of whom have defected to their iPods or the indies. Satellite radio is another threat, but declines...
...award at Cannes and knocked Steven Spielberg's The Terminal out of the No. 1 spot when it opened in France in September. (It opens across Europe over the next two months.) In other words, Jaoui's girlhood dream has come true: she and Bacri are the reine and roi of ensemble cinema. Not that they see it that way. "I don't read reviews because I don't want to feel bad," says Bacri. "But, of course, I'm very happy when the public enjoys our films and when we're awarded a prize. We all like...