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Good Night for Jerry Lewis Telethon?
Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 8 September 2010 9:20 AM
Is it time for Jerry Lewis to call it a night? Tom Shales of the Washington Post writes a column in today’s paper about whether the Jerry Lewis telethon is past its prime. According to Shales, organizers tried to convince Lewis to pass on hosting this year’s event but he refused. Shales says this year the absence of his longtime side kick, Ed McMahon, was palpable. So was Lewis’ advancing age—he began once sentence with “up until I got to be 75 . . . ” Despite the foibles, the telethon brought in more than $58 million this year, less than last year’s $60 million mark, but still pretty good during our prolonged recession.
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