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Jerry Lewis 2009 Telethon
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After the introduction of Jerry's stable of spokewomen (Jan Carl, Nancy O'Dell and Alison Sweeny) they introduced and lauded his recent Oscar win at the last ceremony. Jerry plods out with his Oscar and introduces his "Kid" for 2009. Then, instead of handing the Oscar off to a stage hand, continues to chat up "Kid" while Oscar lays across Jerry's lap.
It's difficult to take Jerry serious. His actions always come across as selfish even if unintentional. While this afflicted girl is pouring out her soul, all I can see is an Oscar statue laid across Jerry's lap. It ruins the emotional moment the MDA Telethon constantly conveys.
It's difficult to take Jerry serious. His actions always come across as selfish even if unintentional. While this afflicted girl is pouring out her soul, all I can see is an Oscar statue laid across Jerry's lap. It ruins the emotional moment the MDA Telethon constantly conveys.
IMHO Jerry is a mega-egomaniac. That is putting it mildly and politely.
I often have trouble seperating my personal horrible opinion of HIM from helping the kids. I have a feeling I'm NOT alone.
MANY radio broadcasters say Jerry (along with Mickey Rooney) are both on their "do not interview" list. They ALWAYS have their own agenda - often much different than the reason for the interview, and they will never "stay on the track."
However, they DO Love Jerry in France (OOO La la) and the cause is what is important.
I often have trouble seperating my personal horrible opinion of HIM from helping the kids. I have a feeling I'm NOT alone.
MANY radio broadcasters say Jerry (along with Mickey Rooney) are both on their "do not interview" list. They ALWAYS have their own agenda - often much different than the reason for the interview, and they will never "stay on the track."
However, they DO Love Jerry in France (OOO La la) and the cause is what is important.
The JL telethon is on the radio too. 990 The WALE in Providence runs the audio from The Rhode Island News Channel in the overnight hours and I guess no one is minding the store today because the telethon is still on and it's well after 6AM when their morning program begins. (Of course in years past in Providence the telethon used to be on 87.7 FM, but now that the DTV transition is done WLNE/6 is no longer on 87.7 FM)
http://www.wale990.com/stream.htm
http://www.wale990.com/stream.htm
I used to enjoy this show. Thanks to DTV, I still could if I wanted. I'd tune in every once in a while to see how well the national total was doing, and I especially liked the local segments.
The show is on two of my cable channels. I could get channel 64 before, I think, but it's channel 2 now. And WGN comes in the basic basic package.
Mike Huckabee told "The Rest of the story" about how it all began. Not the way Paul Harvey would have, but it's the same general idea. Someone with a relative with the disease, which at the time had no treatment, wanted 22-year-old Jerry to help, and he did. He and Dean co-hosted for a while.
The show is on two of my cable channels. I could get channel 64 before, I think, but it's channel 2 now. And WGN comes in the basic basic package.
Mike Huckabee told "The Rest of the story" about how it all began. Not the way Paul Harvey would have, but it's the same general idea. Someone with a relative with the disease, which at the time had no treatment, wanted 22-year-old Jerry to help, and he did. He and Dean co-hosted for a while.
When I was younger the show had better acts, and featured Jerry and Ed the whole 21.5 hours, and I would stay up all night and most of Labor Day to watch the extravaganza. Now, it featured mainly B-listers, has-beens and never-wases, and I generally only watched the first and last hours, plus snippits here and there in between. It also seems that the bigger acts they do get are now scheduled for during Labor Day, when the whole Love Network is online, instead of the night before. While it is still appointment television for me, the whole thing is no longer important.
Another thing I have noticed is that the national show is still behind in the times in the HD segment than its affiliates -- Tampa Bay's Love Network affiliate, WFTS, had the local segments in HD, but the national portions was still SD ported to HD, with the smaller picture and the station logo flanking both sides for widescreen.
On WGN America's HD feed, it was entirely SD ported to HD -- was any part of this in HD on the Chicagoland version?
Also, what was the closing tote for this year. Due to some cable problems, and an appointment at a friend's, I missed out on the end this year.
Another thing I have noticed is that the national show is still behind in the times in the HD segment than its affiliates -- Tampa Bay's Love Network affiliate, WFTS, had the local segments in HD, but the national portions was still SD ported to HD, with the smaller picture and the station logo flanking both sides for widescreen.
On WGN America's HD feed, it was entirely SD ported to HD -- was any part of this in HD on the Chicagoland version?
Also, what was the closing tote for this year. Due to some cable problems, and an appointment at a friend's, I missed out on the end this year.
Prais said:
One can add Lucie Arnaz and Wayne Newton to that list too and the late Paul Newman ( he would love to talk about sports such as racing and the charities that he supported with his line of foods such as that salad dressing but NEVER Hollywood or his film work ).
Exactly ( and not trying to go off topic ) why is Jerry Lewis so popular in France? I
had never heard of an exact reason why that is other than that he just is.
azumanga said:
That disembodied voice was Shawn Parr (conk head now with hand) - and his name didn't appear in the credits, which is a pity.
BTW: Totals...Seattle $2,349,503 (as of 4:55 pm PT), Chicagoland $1,944,769 (as of 6:55 pm CT), New York $5,628,134 (as of 6:53 PM ET).
Nationwide as of 5:45 PM ET: $60,481,231 - much lower than last year.
Joe_Capitano said:
Did Jerry give a reason why there was a shortfall this year, especially since there was no hurricanes making landfall this Labor Day and Jerry was his usual self? I would think the economy may have scared some from pledging, but neither that nor Gustav did so last year.
See two posts above. I already gave the national tote and the Seattle one. Meanwhile,
Well, as the expression goes (nothing personal), "It's the economy, stupid."
It's very likely the recession had every bit to do with the profound shortfall - in dollar terms, the largest ever. But then, it's not like anyone can't give a contribution to MDA the other 364 days of the year.
One more observation: for the first time I can recall, WWOR did not break away for their customary news hour at 10 PM. Obviously, budget cuts in the news division. Same for KWGN, but their news department isn't internal anymore. They also started at 7 PM local - in sync with WWOR.
azumanga said:
Well, as the expression goes (nothing personal), "It's the economy, stupid."
It's very likely the recession had every bit to do with the profound shortfall - in dollar terms, the largest ever. But then, it's not like anyone can't give a contribution to MDA the other 364 days of the year.
One more observation: for the first time I can recall, WWOR did not break away for their customary news hour at 10 PM. Obviously, budget cuts in the news division. Same for KWGN, but their news department isn't internal anymore. They also started at 7 PM local - in sync with WWOR.
Seeing how it is fading away, I somehow think that when Jerry Lewis passes, the telethon will go the way of Paul Harvey....fading away to black....
The reason the telethon did so bad this year, in addition to the enconomic downturn, is because the first Monday of September fell on the 7TH of the month. Which is way later than it usually does and for everyday later the telethon happens past the 1ST your going to see a large drop in donations. The money has already been spent on other things, simple as that!
YEKIMI said:
Personally, there's a better chance of Jerry Lewis dying than him voluntarily giving up the hosting position -- or the telethon breaking $100 million.
RadioStarOne said:
Labor Day fell on September 7 many times since the telethon began -- and they managed to get the usual "$1 more" each time. I don;t think the date has anything to do with it.
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