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[Mike]

I sas wonderi g about the laborday telethon and just googled this
http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/07/17/labor-day-telethon-reduced-to-3-hours-jerry-lewis-completely-erased

Id be pissed too.

[gene]

I read that they were able to only collect 50% of the pledges from last year.

There was a lot of criticism of Dick Clark being rolled out for those few final years at Times Square. I wonder with his son running this telethon if he didn't want to be perceived as rolling Lewis out in the same way.

2010:
173 million raised
34 million spent on telethon
31 million other income
14 million on salaries
26 million other expenses
38 million research

gene

[Eaglewis]

I guess I thought ALL of the money went to research. My naive self was believing that theses so called "stars" donated their time to help these children. $200,000 to some guy to revovate his house!? This very sad

[Mike]

Ya it looks like the star were volinteei g but the guys running the show wernt  kt
counting jerry