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...stock gag line of young comedians is that they would like to host a fund-raising telethon, but by the time they got into the business "all the diseases were taken." Not quite. There is still the financial anemia that attacks many U.S. institutions, including political parties. The Democrats, for example, are heading into the 1972 campaign carrying a debt of $9.3 million. In hopes of easing that burden, the party this weekend will stage the most ambitious telethon ever put on the screen...
Democratic Party Telethon. 18 1/2 hours with such as Joan Rivers, Mike Nichols, Gregory Peck. Johnny Carson, Watch and give: if they help elect McGovern, it'll be worth the time and money. SATURDAY: CHANNEL...
...problem of what Mrs. Santa Claus looks like was finally solved when Martha Mitchell joined in a telethon to raise money for Washington's Children's Hospital. Though she had been expected to stay only ten minutes or so, she hung onto the phones-sometimes four at once-for a full hour, answering questions, mostly from children. Sample: "What do you feed Santa?" Mrs. Santa's answer: "Claus food...
Eighteen months ago the two found their real calling. Convinced that the "visual reality of commercial television" had become "the most important force in the country," they formed a company called Telethon to document that reality off the TV screen. Telethon's first big project is a traveling show called The Television Environment-a thoroughly engaging, nonstop bombardment of slides and live TV that is currently playing at art museums in Vancouver, B.C., Berkeley and Pasadena, Calif., Tallahassee, Fla., and Baltimore...
...actual telethon-Jerry Lewis' 17th annual for muscular dystrophy in 1968-was "the landmark in both our lives," according to Adler, that led to their present exhibit. "We sat up for the entire 19 hours, taking notes," he recalls. "Both of us are fascinated with TV when it is doing real things, as it is during a telethon." Among the other indelible events for Adler and Margolies, they say, were the Pope's 1965 visit to Yankee Stadium and, in 1969, the funeral of President Eisenhower. A couple of years ago, they began photographing images from the screen...