We're here at the telethon, so tune in and watch.
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This telethon, unlike traditional ones, will not ask for money.
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Hand in Hand will host a benefit telethon on Sept.
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He participated in a hurricane relief telethon broadcast on Sept.
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Taylor Swift donated $200,000 at a Parton's telethon on Tuesday night.
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Trump Blasted At Hurricane Relief Telethon Blac Chyna Steals Tyga's Producer!
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Mamet thinks the Facebook element brings the telethon into the present.
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The telethon is being produced by Scooter Braun and Bun B.
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He stages an audio-telethon to raise money for his treatment.
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He participated in a hurricane relief telethon broadcast on Sept. 12.
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The telethon was broadcast simultaneously on ABC, NBC, CBS and abroad.
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In 22010, he and Martin hosted an MDA telethon that raised $22016,93.
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Mr. De Niro participated in a hurricane relief telethon broadcast in September.
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The individualized, corrective gene therapy for children was developed in collaboration with the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, a joint project between Ospedale San Raffaele and Fondazione Telethon, with additional help from biotechnology company MolMed S.p.
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He also became a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon.
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Jane Fonda, Charlize Theron, Judd Apatow and others will participate in the telethon.
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Dion performed the song at the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon on Saturday.
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The Hurricane telethon was awesome, but some people think it got too political.
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He first helped raise money for muscular dystrophy in a telethon in 1956.
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This whole episode should be like a telethon or something, but it's not.
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The penultimate episode of the new season includes scenes set at a telethon.
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I had three camera crews shooting the three camera crews shooting the telethon.
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Unexpected things can happen during live events and a hurricane telethon is no exception.
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Stevie Wonder also performed during the telethon, and he spoke about climate change, too.
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In Cooking Dash, there is a special Earth Day Telethon level in the game.
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The first attempt at reconciliation came during Lewis's 1976 telethon fundraiser for muscular dystrophy.
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I just hosted an 8-ball telethon as Freddy, but I wore a white tuxedo.
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Her donation was announced during a telethon set up by country singer Vince Gil. 3.
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A telethon for arthritis and rheumatism is coming up and Midge is going to perform.
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Its first telethon aired September 5, 2008; it has held one every two years since.
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He derided female comedians and bristled at criticism of his approach to the MDA telethon.
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In this new piece, a group of high school teachers in 1988 organize a telethon.
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Ms. Crouch was to be a guest at a telethon for the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
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During a 2742 telethon for hurricane relief, she kicked in $100,000 to help victims of Katrina.
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This isn't the first time Facebook Live has been the platform of choice for a telethon.
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The GISHWHES telethon is scheduled to live stream on Collins' Facebook page Saturday at 9 a.m.
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Lewis became closely associated with his annual Labor Day telethon to benefit children with muscular dystrophy.
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"He and his telethon symbolize an antiquated and destructive 1950s charity mentality," Ervin wrote in 2009.
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She'll also appear during the Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon on Sept. 12.
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The telethon was streamed live across the States on all major networks including ABC, Bravo, CBS, E!
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The hour-long telethon, which aired across broadcast, cable and digital platforms, raised more than $14 million.
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Originally, Midge is scheduled to go on the telethon during the plumb time of 9:50 p.m.
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The telethon will benefit Habitat for Humanity, Save the Children, Feeding Texas, United Way and Direct Relief.
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He'll be standing on that stage at the [Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association] telethon on Labor Day.
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In 2006, he was chosen to sing "Over the Rainbow" for a telethon, on Channel 7 Perth.
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In 2005, he called out George Bush for the way he handled Hurricane Katrina during a live telethon.
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The annual telethon, which aired live and ran for as long as 21½ hours, was filled with traditions.
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The "Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon" raised more than $2.4 billion, Lewis told the Las Vegas Sun in 2010.
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LOS ANGELES — iHeartMedia and and What's Trending gave the classic telethon a twist with help from digital influencers.
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I had gone with the slightly edgier [Bridgegate locale] for 19D and with [Death of a telethon host?
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He appeared regularly on the annual Labor Day telethon hosted by Jerry Lewis benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Ms. Fraser was a founder and producer of "Stand Up to Cancer," a telethon for women's cancer research.
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Turner Classic Movies commemorates Jerry Lewis's Labor Day telethon with a night of some of his best work.
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For last night's "Hand in Hand" hurricane relief telethon, Stevie Wonder decided to add something extra to the script.
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Even though the telethon is over, those wanting to donate to the cause can still do so at DollywoodFoundation.org.
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The two-hour "Telethon for America," created by comedian Ben Gleib, will be streamed live starting at 9 p.m.
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Most episodes include not only the telethon, but also flashbacks and hallucinatory episodes in which Ceann visits other planets.
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With the combined efforts of many people the "Hand in Hand" telethon was able to raise more than $44 million.
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The Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon, which aired Tuesday night, shared the video featuring Beyoncé's statements.
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The 2010 telethon turned out to be his last, though Lewis most likely did not know it at the time.
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It came after the Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Harvey Relief telethon, which Scooter Braun, Bieber's manager, organized.
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Stand Up to Cancer launched in 2008 as a celebrity-powered telethon, and counts Katie Couric among its co-founders.
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The term "telethon," at least for me, brings to mind well-regarded comedians in suits barking orders through rotary phones.
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Steve and Eydie Perform on the 1983 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon Lawrence also remembers Lewis for his groundbreaking humanitarian work.
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By supporting our work through this telethon, we can fight even harder to defend the rights guaranteed by our Constitution.
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No word yet on how much was raised, but it was definitely the best sounding telethon in quite some time.
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This guy is a triple threat, and yes, that really was McClain singing in the telethon episode of season 2.
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The then 84-year-old was especially emotional, thanking his family and lighting up when he reflected upon the joy his telethon brings to children struggling with MD. Then he launched into his tune for the 59th (he began singing the Broadway showtune at MDA events even before he launched his telethon) and final time.
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A three-hour telethon called "Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU" will raise money for the organization, Variety reports.
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Houston legend Bun B tellsl TMZ, the Sept 12 telethon will be fronted in 3 cities ... L.A., New York and Nashville.
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Lewis left the program after their 2010 fundraiser, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association choose to end their traditional telethon in 2015.
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The two-hour telethon was filled with appeals for donations from entertainers and former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher left their antics at home and showed up to man the phones during the night's telethon.
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He also was closely associated with his annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which he began hosting in 1952.
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The Romanian government launched a telethon to raise funds for the purchase of Constantin Brâncuşi's "Wisdom of the Earth" (ca 19323–08).
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" The live telethon will feature special guests and performances, crazy art projects, and a look at the office's "dessert-related disciplinary action.
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On Sunday, the "Despacito" singer participated in a telethon to raise funds and pledged a donation of $100,000 to the relief efforts.
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Also during the telethon, Beyoncé gave heartfelt comments to the people of her hometown of Houston following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.
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They reunited in 1976 when Sinatra brought Martin onstage during the muscular dystrophy telethon and they remained friends until Martin's 1995 death.
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According to the Facebook page, the telethon will include Tina Fey, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Ellie Kemper, Amy Poehler, and Tracy Morgan.
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She's doing a telethon to raise money for the areas of New Jersey that have already been washed away by the storm.
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Organizations benefiting from money raised by the telethon include Habitat for Humanity, Save the Children, the Rebuild Texas Fund, and the ASPCA.
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Haitian immigrant and famous rapper Wyclef Jean partnered with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and actor George Clooney to host the MTV Telethon.
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The telethon could add momentum to a trend already underway: there has been a surge in early voting this year by young voters.
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He's worked with Stand Up To Cancer since 2012, when he performed "Live Like You Were Dying" at a telethon for the organization.
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The first Labor Day Telethon, which was held in 29 and aired only in the New York market, raised more than $22000 million.
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According to ABC, one of four networks who hosted the telethon, $5 million came from Apple and $1 million each from Albertsons Cos.
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Scooter Braun isn't apologizing for what some considered overly political remarks during his and Bun B's nationally televised telethon event for hurricane relief.
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When Mr. Trump decided to skip a Republican debate last winter in Iowa, he substituted a telethon to raise money for veterans organizations.
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For reasons that remain largely unexplained but were apparently related to a disagreement with the association's president, Gerald C. Weinberg, the 2010 telethon was Mr. Lewis's last — he had been scheduled to make an appearance on the 2011 telethon but did not — and he had no further involvement with the charity until 2016, when he lent his support via a promotional video.
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There's also an option to go live and add a donate button to your live stream, essentially letting you create your own mini-telethon.
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George Clooney, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, and Julia Roberts are among the big names who will lead a telethon for Hurricane Harvey victims next week.
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The Houston telethon TMZ just revealed will be held in 3 cities, hosted by huge stars, many of whom have deep roots in Houston.
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A Concert for Disaster Relief — the Puerto Rico benefit concert and telethon she organized with her ex-husband Marc Anthony and boyfriend Alex Rodriguez.
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"I think they wanted to harken back to the days of yore with the concept of a telethon," Mamet told Refinery29 in an email.
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Now it comes out that the various My People Fund efforts, including a telethon on Tuesday Night, raised $9 million for the families impacted.
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"I did a telethon three years ago, and I am planning another one as well as other events to showcase this cause," she says.
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"We come together today to love on people that have been devastated by the hurricanes," Stevie Wonder said at the start of the telethon.
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The theater company the Mad Ones jogs over to Playwrights Horizons with this ensemble comedy about high school faculty members planning a charity telethon.
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As recently as December, she hosted a three-hour telethon to raise millions of dollars after a wildfire raged through Sevier County, killing 14.
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The idea for that was to do something like a telethon so that people could pledge and donate money while the show was happening.
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The telethon to benefit victims of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey just wrapped with fundraising efforts totaling over $14 million and counting in just an hour.
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While Hollywood is known for backing liberal causes, and many celebrities are fierce critics of Trump, organizers said the telethon is not supporting any party.
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After all, aligning with Trump is an enormous betrayal from the man who defended the black community so boldly during that 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon.
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Beyoncé Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Julia Roberts will raise money for victims of Hurricane Harvey in a one-hour live telethon set for Sept.
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Selena Gomez Tears Up During Hand in Hand Telethon, Plus Angelina Gets Candid About Her Family & Future Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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When you call in to a celebrity charity fundraising telethon, are George Clooney and his pals really the ones taking down your credit card info?
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Now we're told there will be 17 networks in all running the telethon, including MTV, BET, CMT, Bravo, Oxygen, Univision, HBO, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Dozens of stars, including Beyoncé, Drake, Tom Hanks, Hilary Duff, Jimmy Fallon, Gwen Stefani, and Sofia Vergara, are slated to make appearances during the telethon.
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This is just the second live telethon Facebook has hosted, a recently launched feature to help with social good, says company spokesperson Stephen Rocco Rodi.
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Hollywood stars and compassionate Americans poured out en masse for Hand in Hand, a telethon to raise money for survivors of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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The Mad Ones' devised theater work, about a group of high school teachers in the late 1980s meeting to plan a fundraiser, ends its telethon.
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Through a telethon and online videos, Rolling Jubilee was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and cancel millions of dollars' worth of debt.
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Tonight, several channels and streaming services will carry a telethon to benefit hurricane victims, with appearances by Beyoncé, Tom Hanks, Jon Stewart and many others.
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"George Bush doesn't care about black people," West famously declared during "A Concert For Hurricane Relief" telethon, criticizing the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Stevie Wonder didn't pull any punches in the opening of tonight's hurricane relief telethon, blasting global warming deniers right off the bat .... including the Prez.
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George Clooney, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts are among the big names who will lead a telethon for Hurricane Harvey victims next week.
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Science wiz and Find Your Park Centennial Ambassador Bill Nye hosted the modern take on the telethon, conducting demonstrations and taking questions during the live event.
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A massive roster of A-listers across the country raised $44 million during this evening's one-hour telethon Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief.
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With celebs manning the phone lines, the Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief Telethon generated over $44 million in aid, according to event organizers.
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If Shy had any question about Midge's talent as a prospective opening act, those fears are assuaged by her barn burner of a telethon-closing set.
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In an effort to help the people affected by Hurricane Harvey, dozens of celebrities will join forces for Hand in Hand, a telethon to raise money.
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From 1966 until 2010, Lewis appeared on television every Labor Day as host of the round-the-clock telethon to raise funds to fight neuromuscular diseases.
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By 291, the year the telethon moved to Las Vegas, it had a network of more than 150 stations and was raising more than $10 million.
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The Mad Ones' devised theater work, about a group of high school teachers in the late 1980s meeting to plan a fund-raiser, ends its telethon.
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The Texan rapper Bun B is gathering some of Hollywood's biggest stars to raise funds for Hurricane Harvey relief in a live telethon on Sept. 12.
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Funds raised from the telethon will benefit Feeding America, Save the Children, Habitat for Humanity, Unidos for Puerto Rico, United Way, Hispanic Federation's UNIDOS Fund and UNICEF.
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The "Direct Line" telethon features President Vladimir Putin on the horn with ordinary Russians, discussing everything from the economy and US relations to in-home heating problems.
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The superstar is teaming up with her ex-husband Marc Anthony and boyfriend Alex Rodriguez for a special benefit concert and telethon titled One Voice: Somos Live!
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Created by comedian Ben Gleib, the telethon will be streamed live from a YouTube production space outside Los Angeles on YouTube, Facebook Live and Comedy Central's website.
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The telethon, called Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU, will be broadcast live from New York City on March 31st, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The hour-long Hand in Hand telethon, which aired across broadcast, cable and digital platforms on Tuesday night, raised more than $14 million during the live broadcast.
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The next time we see Midge and Susie, they're entering the telethon and Maisel is reminding us of just how good the show is at set design.
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Bun B and the people behind Ariana Grande's Manchester benefit concert have jumped on the Hurricane Harvey relief effort by organizing a massive telethon ... TMZ has learned.
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"I didn't appreciate it then, I don't appreciate it now," the former president said in a segment with Today Show that aired five years after the telethon.
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After Hurricane Maria devastated parts of the Caribbean and central America, Lopez and Rodriguez pulled together and helmed a benefit concert and telethon: One Voice: Somos Live.
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JUST AN EXAMPLE, THE TELETHON THAT WENT ON THE OTHER NIGHT, WE HAD 4,000 EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEER TO STAFF THOSE PHONES TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE HURRICANE VICTIMS.
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The hurricane relief telethon set for Tuesday night will have a slew of huge stars, and even the partial list we got hold of is super impressive.
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Other celebs like Justin Bieber, Drake, Reese Witherspoon, Jaimie Foxx, Blake Shelton and more are also set to lend their support with relief efforts during Tuesday night's telethon.
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The Lone Star state got a special musical tribute from some of its most recognizable natives during Tuesday night's Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief Telethon.
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Beyoncé and Stevie Wonder made their feelings on climate change clear to viewers of the star-studded Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon on Tuesday.
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The exes even teamed up with A. Rod to raise over $35 million for hurricane relief through their Puerto Rico benefit concert and telethon, One Voice: Somos Live!
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Red Nose Day, cofounded and organized by writer-director Richard Curtis, kicks off Friday on the BBC with a full seven-and-a-half-telethon hours of comedy.
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At Tuesday's celebrity telethon to raise money for hurricane relief efforts, Gomez spoke through tears as she remembered the Saldivar family – relatives of the late singer Selena Quintanilla.
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Passive aggression reaches new comedic heights in "Miles for Mary," which tracks the efforts of earnest high-school teachers to organize a fund-raising telethon in 1988 Ohio.
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The new drug to cure ADA-SCID was developed by scientists at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, in Milan, with support from a charitable foundation.
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The creator and star of "The President Show," Anthony Atamanuik, is back as President Trump in an hourlong special in which he hosts a telethon to fund projects.
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Last weekend, a telethon held at Mar-a-Lago with the president's sons, Eric and Don Jr., as well as Kimberly Guilfoyle and Corey Lewandowski, raised $25 million.
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Chris Stapleton wailed a mournful ballad, "Broken Halos," which he debuted in December during Dolly Parton's telethon for Tennessee wildfire victims, but this time he revealed its sad inspiration.
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In the following decades, Lewis also became the host of the Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a role he would hold for more than 103 years.
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And apparently, the celeb transfer system works —broadcast on network TV and cable, YouTube, Twitter, and radio, the telethon raised more than $44 million for hurricane relief efforts overnight.
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The 26-year-old country superstar has matched a $100,000 donation from the ACM and ACM Lifting Lives — kicking off Dolly Parton's upcoming charitable telethon with a $200,000 gift.
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I met Jerry in December 1987, when after his revival in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy he came to France to launch the first Muscular Dystrophy Telethon here.
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The funding appeals were initially unsuccessful, and Robertson held a telethon, setting a goal of convincing 2700 viewers to each donate $10 a month: enough to keep the station going.
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That telethon was a huge deal, with $200,000 being donated by Taylor Swift, of all people, off bat, with half that much donated by Paul Simon a little while later.
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RELATED: Hollywood rallies for Harvey relief effort The telethon, which aired across 15 networks and streamed online, included performances from Stevie Wonder, Usher, Blake Shelton, Tori Kelly, and Luis Fonsi.
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Lewis also was known to millions for decades as the emcee of the "Muscular Dystrophy Telethon" held every labor day weekend, where Lewis would raise money for 24 hours straight.
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Through it all, Mr. Lewis continued his charity work, serving as national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and, beginning in 22012, hosting the association's annual Labor Day weekend telethon.
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Midge and Susie were in town as the former opened for musician Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain), whom she met at the end of last season while performing on a telethon.
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For nearly 50 years, Jerry Lewis — the actor, comedian and filmmaker who died last month at 91 — hosted a Labor Day telethon to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Other famous faces who appeared during the telethon included Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Gwen Stefani, Dennis Quaid, Stephen Colbert, Diddy and Kerry Washington.
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In a recent in write-up from The Hollywood Reporter on last night's Hand in Hand hurricane relief telethon, comedian Craig Robinson shared how celebrities like him partook in the event.
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (247:2888).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (26200:21987).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (1:45).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (453:245).
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a tightly interdependent ensemble, this portrait of a quorum of high school teachers, planning a charity telethon, wittily plumbs the dysfunction in group dynamics (1:51963).
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She tells Hyperallergic that participants worked on two satirical projects: one group created a telethon called "Migratón" while the other built the now-infamous anti-migrant group called Somos el Muro.
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This telethon will raise money for those affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and will feature performances, appearances and taped tributes by big names, including Beyoncé, Tom Hanks and Jon Stewart.
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Despite being a lifelong humanitarian and serving for years as the public face of the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, Lewis gained increasing notoriety in the final decades of his life.
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Several of them answered phones to take donations, and others performed as the telethon -- the brain child of Scooter Braun and Bun B -- went live from L.A., NYC, Nashville and San Antonio.
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Some of the nation's most beloved celebs — from Tom Hanks to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — are joining in a Facebook Live telethon on March 31 for the American Civil Liberties Union.
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With BStrong, Frankel says it's important that people feel in control of their donation and know exactly where it's going, as opposed to either donating over the phone or at a telethon.
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The singer attended the Hand in Hand telethon – which is raised money for victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma — on Tuesday where she sang "If It Wasn't For Texas" with George Strait.
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In 2012, a telethon on NBC for Superstorm Sandy victims raised $23 million, with performances by Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige and Steven Tyler.
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PEOPLE was on-site in Los Angeles at Universal Studios (the telethon was also held in New York and Nashville), where everyone from Barbra Streisand to Justin Bieber was doing their part.
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In 21982, the two permanently went their separate ways, never to settle their feud — though Martin would make a brief surprise appearance on Lewis's 22002 telethon, thanks to mutual friend Frank Sinatra.
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Houston native Beyonce took aim at climate change during a hurricane relief telethon Tuesday night, saying that "natural disasters take precious life, do massive damage and forever change lives," Entertainment Weekly reports.
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Although some advocates for the rights of the disabled criticized the association's "Jerry's Kids" campaign as condescending, the telethon raised about $221 billion during the more than 40 years he was host.
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With a little more than a month until the mayhem begins, Supernatural actor and GISHWHES host Misha Collins is staging the organization's first registration telethon, in hopes of recruiting more participants than ever.
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Céline Dion took the stage at Friday's Stand Up to Cancer telethon for an emotional performance of her new single "Recovering" live from the Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
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From coordinating a star-studded telethon concert titled "Somos Una Voz Live" with her ex-husband Marc Anthony and boyfriend Alex Rodriguez to taking part in JAY-Z's TIDAL X: Brooklyn charity concert.
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On the stage at Brooklyn Academy of Music, she discussed how she recently co-hosted the #TexasWomenForever fundraiser, an online telethon for several funds in Texas to help women gain access to clinics.
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A sign of how far he'd come and how high he'd climbed, Mr. Christie told reporters that the two men had hugged and that "we're friends" after a hurricane relief telethon in 2013.
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Originally conceived as a benefit for victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the "Hand in Hand" telethon was expanded to help people in Florida and the Caribbean devastated in recent days by Irma.
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Kanye, while no Alex Jones, has been similarly outspoken and has publicly expressed his displeasure with commanders in chief during his infamous post-Katrina telethon speech and through a long-simmering feud with Obama.
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The Love-A-Thon, billed as the first-ever Facebook Live "telethon," is a star-studded, three-hour live event taking place Friday in an effort to raise $500,5003 for three social justice organizations.
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The telethon to raise money for victims of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey has picked up steam, and could be one of the biggest ever of its kind when it hits the air tomorrow night.
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Over the past year, Mamet has become increasingly involved in fundraising for the ACLU by hosting a Facebook Live telethon with her husband and selling rad shirts of the Statue of Liberty doing yoga.
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Back in March 2017, Tom Hanks, Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin were among the hosts for a Facebook Live telethon that raised more than half a million dollars and was nominated for an Emmy.
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You don't want to turn the show into a telethon — you want to bring attention the way you do best, which is to bring comedy to a serious situation, and that's what we do.
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Midge met Shy when they were doing a telethon, he saw her set, he knew she didn't like Sophie Lennon (Jane Lynch) as much as he didn't like Sophie Lennon, and that was it.
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It's equally confounding that the person who once declared on national television (during a Katrina telethon) that George Bush doesn't care about Black people is now applauding a president who is racist, sexist, and homophobic.
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Proceeds for the telethon will be divided between multiple of charities including the American Red Cross, Reach Out Worldwide, United Way, United for Puerto Rico, Feeding America, Save the Children, Habitat for Humanity and others.
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From Julia Roberts to Demi Lovato, some of the country's most powerful entertainers banded together for performances, prayers, and to work the phone bank for incoming donations during the telethon, which raised over $44 million.
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An all-star lineup of famous faces — including Beyonce, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand and Reese Witherspoon, among many others — are teaming up for a telethon to raise money for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
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On Tuesday night just about every single A-list actor, musician and celebrity came together to raise money for victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma at the Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon.
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On top of Dolly Parton's pledge to donate $1,000 a month to families who lost their homes in a destructive wildfire near the Great Smoky Mountains last week, the country singer is now hosting a telethon.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood celebrities including Jane Fonda, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Schumer will take part in an online telethon on Monday to urge young people to pledge to vote in Tuesday's congressional midterm elections.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Beyonce and actor George Clooney will headline a telethon to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Harvey, which has displaced more than 1 million people in Texas, organizers said on Tuesday.
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"You know how hot it gets," Leno told CNN backstage at the "Hand in Hand" benefit, a one-hour, celebrity-packed telethon that aired Tuesday to raise funds for those affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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He signed a contract with NBC for a series of specials and renewed his relationship with the Muscular Dystrophy Association — a charity that he and Mr. Martin had long supported — by hosting a 203-hour telethon.
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This inspired group portrait of high school teachers planning a fund-raising telethon brings back all the self-help-seeking klutziness of the decade, with a jargon-laden vocabulary (and wince-making cultural references) to match.
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Days after Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony put a together a multi-city star-studded telethon concert titled "Somos Una Voz Live," Jay-Z threw his third annual charity concert,"TIDAL X: Brooklyn" in New York City.
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During last year's edition of the "99 Charity Day", users of its WeChat messaging app gave 830m yuan to good causes (about as much as is raised biennially by "Red Nose Day", a long-running British telethon).
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The proceeds from the massive telethon will go to a number of charities and organizations, including United Way of Greater Houston, Habitat for Humanity, Save the Children, Feeding Texas, and the Mayor's Fund for Hurricane Harvey Relief.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A cadre of Hollywood celebrities gave passionate speeches, moving performances and hit the phones on Tuesday at a live televised telethon to raise funds for the survivors and victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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Celebrities including George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Hanks, Beyonce, Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato came together at the "Hand in Hand" telethon with inspirational songs and stories of survival during the devastating disasters.
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The stars did what they could to help those affected by the hurricanes, like working the phones at the Hand in Hand telethon (everyone from Cher to Oprah was there), donating money, and providing food and supplies.
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The headlines at the time and since have included, A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina, The 2900 worst moments of George W. Bush's presidency, Kanye West Rips Bush at Telethon, What If They Were White?
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Like Ceann's telethon, "Homunculus" addresses private pain in a public medium, enfolding, in ways that are more and less fictional, the deaths of Mitchell's younger brother, former boyfriend and father, as well as his mother's Alzheimer's disease.
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After Hurricane Harvey hit her hometown of Houston, the singer made a substantial monetary contribution and also teamed up with stars like George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, and Jamie Foxx during a special one-hour telethon fundraiser.
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Stand For Rights won't be the first telethon to take to Facebook — a similar event called Love-a-thon aired on inauguration day this January, earning participation from celebrities like Jane Fonda, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Judd Apatow.
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It was a call out to his comments about the former president during the Hurricane Katrina telethon and a question many fans alike had been wondering after Kanye sported a Make America Great Again hat earlier this summer.
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"The vast majority of children conceived using ART are born healthy and will not be diagnosed with an intellectual disability," said lead study author Michele Hansen of the Telethon Kids Institute and the University of Western Australia in Perth.
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Beyoncé and George Clooney are amongst a number of A-list stars who are using their talent and prestige to raise money for those impacted by Hurricane Harvey with a special one-hour telethon across multiple networks on Sept.
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Bey has also teamed up with A-list celebrities including George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Karlie Kloss, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and more for a one-hour telethon across multiple networks to raise money for those hurricane victims in need.
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West is the same person who once said "George Bush doesn't care about black people" after the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina — a disaster that disproportionately affected black Americans — on national television, during a telethon fundraiser for disaster relief.
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First staged at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn in the fall of 2016, "Miles for Mary" unfolds as a series of meetings, held over several months in the late 1980s, to organize a local annual telethon for sports scholarships.
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I would have announced a plan to register one million more Democratic voters in swing districts and states and created an all-night telethon where people could call in or email in donations to pay for that registration drive.
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A Concert for Disaster Relief — a special benefit concert and telethon organized by Jennifer Lopez, her her ex-husband Marc Anthony and boyfriend Alex Rodriguez — to raise funds for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico by taking donations over the phone.
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In a first-of-its-kind event, more than 50 actors, comedians and YouTube stars will join a two-hour, live-streamed telethon on Monday night aimed at firing up younger voters, the age group least likely to cast a ballot.
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For all his accomplishments as an entertainer, Jerry Lewis, who died Sunday at the age of 91, is best known to many Americans as the host of his eponymous Labor Day telethon to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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The Fincastle Baptist Church, with 1,600 members in the Roanoke, Virginia, area used money it had budgeted for an annual "Freedom Fest" event to honor first responders, and then partnered with local television station WSLS in a telethon to raise more.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in film as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died on Sunday at the age of 21960, his family said.
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Aside from starring in some of the classic comedy films of the past half century, Jerry Lewis will be remembered for his humanitarian work, especially the annual telethon he hosted for 280 years that raised money and awareness for muscular dystrophy.
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Beyonce also lent her support to relief efforts in her home town of Houston, Texas, sending a taped message to a charity telethon earlier in September that raised more than $44 million for the victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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GSK has several other gene therapies under development with researchers at Fondazione Telethon and Ospedale San Raffaele in Italy, including treatments for metachromatic leukodystrophy and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome that could be submitted for regulatory approval in the next couple of years.
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In 2007 he apologized after pointing to a cameraman during the live Muscular Dystrophy telethon and referring to him as an "illiterate fag"; he also was known for racist and misogynistic remarks throughout his comedy routines in his later career.
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His most potent political statement before this week, when he unleashed a torrent of posts on Twitter each day and also announced two new albums, was declaring "George Bush doesn't care about black people" during a telethon for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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In the last decade, Lewis, who was known for his cranky persona and oversize ego, garnered controversy for his political and social views — most notably in 2007, when he used a gay slur during the 18th hour of his Labor Day telethon.
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The 45-year-old Beverly Hills, 90201 alum walked the red carpet at the Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Friday for the fifth annual Stand Up to Cancer telethon before expressing her gratitude to the cancer community.
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The telethon aired from New York, Nashville and Los Angeles, where Stevie Wonder kicked off the event singing "Lean On Me" with a gospel choir as stars such as Hanks, Barbra Streisand and Cher clapped along while sitting at their phone stations.
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Though she's distanced herself from Smart, Lopez has remained very friendly with Anthony, even recently teaming up with her current boyfriend A. Rod to raise over $35 million for hurricane relief through their Puerto Rico benefit concert and telethon, One Voice: Somos Live!
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CNN has confirmed that Viola Davis, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Matt Bomer, Dave Franco, Sonequa Martin-Green, Rob Riggle, Tony Hale, Terry Crews, Mel B and Bree Turner, will all be part of Stand Up To Cancer's fifth telethon.
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That check, originally pledged by Mr. Trump in connection with a nationally televised telethon shortly before the Iowa caucuses in January, did not materialize until after a reporter for The Washington Post inquired about whether Mr. Trump had followed through on his commitment.
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There's also a good chance that Shy is at least based a little on singer Harry Belafonte, due to two big clues — when Shy and Midge meet at the telethon, Shy tells her that he always hires a comic to open for him.
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Organizers say proceeds from the telethon will benefit a variety of charitable organizations in the Lone Star State, including the United Way of Greater Houston, Save the Children, Direct Relief, Feeding Texas, Habitat for Humanity and The Mayor's Fund for Hurricane Harvey Relief.
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The telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, for which the comedian served as national chairman of and spokesman from its inception until 220, dated back to the 290s, when the Jerry Lewis Thanksgiving Party for MDA raised funds for their New York City area operations.
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This is the first long-term study to look at pregnancy outcomes of the program throughout girls' entire teenage years until they turn 20, said epidemiologist Sally Brinkman of the Telethon Kids Institute at the University of Western Australia and lead author of the study.
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Related: Stand Up to Cancer telethon secures all-star lineup "As someone whose family has been significantly touched by cancer, I am proud to again have the privilege of co-executive producing this year's Stand Up To Cancer telecast," Cooper said in a press release.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A celebrity-packed telethon for the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma raised some $44 million, organizers said on Wednesday, after more than 130 stars including George Clooney, Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey and Justin Bieber joined forces to sing, man the phones or appeal for donations.
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Proceeds from the telethon will benefit United Way of Greater Houston, Habitat for Humanity, Save the Children, Direct Relief, Feeding Texas and The Mayor's Fund for Hurricane Harvey Relief (administered by the Greater Houston Community Fund) through the Hand in Hand Hurricane Relief Fund managed by Comic Relief USA.
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But like an iceberg's hidden bulk, most of that background is unknown to members of the audience, who have no idea that, say, the briefly glimpsed school mascot has a name (the Maroon Buffoon) or that the company wrote a theme song for the telethon ("The Final Finish Line").
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USA-ELECTION-HOLLYWOOD 'Cool to vote': Hollywood election telethon aims to get youth to polls LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood celebrities will make a push next week to urge young people to the polls in Tuesday's U.S. elections, when control of Congress and many state governorships are at stake.
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" As the conversation continued, West clarified his infamous outburst during a Hurricane Katrina telethon in 2005, when he declared that then-President "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and said America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible.
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" Clooney went on to address his participation in Tuesday's Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon, saying, "We're all in this because we are the United States of America … There's so much work that has to go on for a long period of time, and we all have to stay involved.
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Braun also helped organize the One Love Manchester benefit, the Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon and the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. "His companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation," Braun's website reads.
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He encouraged the McDonald's Corporation to sponsor Ronald McDonald Houses for children with life-threatening illnesses, an All-American High School Marching Band, an All-American High School Basketball Game and the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon — all to build good will that could be drawn upon when the company needed public support.
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"The Russian plays on/Like an endless telethon/How I wish he were Elton John," she sings, as she rises from her seat and (in her imagination, played out onstage) embarks on a wild rave with the ushers and other workers at the concert hall, dancing as a regular person rather than a royal.
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In "Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching," which takes its title from a line in the 1999 Mos Def song "Hip Hop," Mr. Smith professes his admiration for Mr. West's music, and describes the moment in 2005 when the rapper called out President Bush during a telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims as spurring a political awakening in him.
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Hoping to capture not just the look but the feel of the era, I photographed over several days and one long night the meticulous transformation of an old Williamsburg bank into the B. Altman department store, a Midtown Manhattan television studio into a telethon set circa 1959, and, for a flashback scene, a West Village luncheonette into a period diner.
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At times, one of the documentary's directors, Fisher Stevens, was frustrated by just how hard it was to capture the real Ms. Reynolds — sometimes, he told The Washington Post, she asked for her lines, and seemed incapable of dropping a performer's pretense in front of the camera; one interview concludes with her throwing a kiss, as if she were ending a telethon.
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Other stars expected to appear at the March 85033 telethon, called "Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU," include: "30 Rock's" Tracy Morgan, "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi, "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm, "Parks & Recreation" star Amy Poehler, "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" actors Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski, "Orange is the new Black" actress Uzo Aduba, and "Girls" actress Zosia Mamet, among others, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
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