Word: telethons
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...were a sportswriter covering the game, you could give hourly bulletins, like they had for the space shuttle. A television station could have packaged the game like a telethon, with entertainment from all over Rhode Island. Singing, and dancing...
...tree. He came out of the tough neighborhoods of the Bronx, and when it was over, he had an old middleweight title, a divorce, a bad morals rap in Miami, a gut like an ocean basin, and a comedy routine that got him places like the Jerry Lewis Telethon. He used to hang around bars like P.J. Clarke's in New York, telling people his story, telling them how they would make a book and a movie out of it. And they did. Jake LaMotta was the kind of guy who always seemed to get what he wanted, mostly because...
...Striding beside a quintuple-tiered bank of telephones, affable Pat Robertson, 49, tells his viewers, "For 50? a day you can change the world," while his sidekick Ben Kinchlow hands him reports on the latest contributions. It is fund-raising telethon time on the 700 Club, and by week's end an audience watching 140 TV stations has pledged $10 million in the coming year to keep Robertson's daily "Christian talk show" coming from its Virginia Beach, Va., studios...
...almost a wartime status, but we are interdicting only about 10% of the illegal drugs coming in." Most dealers feel even that is an overestimation. Successful smugglers hardly bother to hide their activities. Two Florida brothers, Tracy and Darrell Boyd, once donated $10,000 to the muscular-dystrophy telethon signing themselves "the blockade runners...
...With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop to Jimmy Carter in the throes of a scatological tantrum. No one is safe from Sorel: he skewers Arabs and Zionists, harpoons Cardinal Cooke and Billy Graham, lampoons the Jerry Lewis telethon: "Maybe some day science will find a cure for Multiple No-Talent." Sorel's style is best when it reveals the foibles of its subject graphically: Gloria Steinem as a knight in tarnished amour, Scoop Jackson as a sheriff with a beltful of missiles, Woody Allen as Satan...