Monday, May 16, 2011

MDA 2011 Telethon will be last for Jerry Lewis

From Chicago Tribune:NEW YORK -- Jerry Lewis is retiring after 45 years as host of the annual Muscular Dystrophy Assn. Labor Day weekend telethon, a move foreshadowed by the organization's announcement in October it planned to shorten and reformat the charity broadcast."It's time for an all-new telethon era," Lewis said in MDA's announcement May 16.This column suggested that the way MDA glossed