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After deciding to hold the telethon on Saturday morning in front of a McDonald's, Judd Bornheimer decided to "call up some people who cared...
...campaign got a roaring start on Sunday night when four students who attend the Graham Parks School, located across the street from where the fire took place, hosted a telethon on Cambridge Community Television (CCTV...
Since the Sunday night telethon, the whole city has rallied behind the victims of the fire not only with compassion, but just as importantly, cash...
...best-loved/least-loved entertainers, "America has had more of Jerry Lewis than it has known what to do with. Indeed, it has had more Jerry Lewises than it has known what to do with." O.K., let's see. There's Jerry Lewis the assaultively maudlin telethon host, choking up as he sings You'll Never Walk Alone to "his" kids. There's Jerry Lewis whose bitter falling out with former partner Dean Martin is probably better remembered than the duo's actual body of work. There's Jerry Lewis the director and star of the original The Nutty Professor...
...America is good--if you remember that it's a once-a-year TV show that allows viewers to make bar bets on the status of young womanhood. The pageant is good for drama and giggles on a Saturday night. Nestled on the September schedule amid the Jerry Lewis Telethon and Monday Night Football, the Miss America show shares with those made-for-TV spectacles the lure of unpredictable thrills and gaffes, adventure and ennui. It's gaudy, it's fake, it's real, it's live! We hate it. We love...