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Post by marianne48 on Sept 6, 2021 18:01:52 GMT
This was a Labor Day tradition for nearly 50 years. Anyone have memories of watching this show? Did you put on an MDA carnival in your backyard when you were a kid?
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Post by gbone on Sept 6, 2021 20:15:29 GMT
We had one television at the time and my parents watched it which meant, we watched it. We were bummed because the new school always started the next day.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 6, 2021 22:37:45 GMT
I usually tuned it in but couldn't take too much of it.
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 6, 2021 23:14:38 GMT
Never saw it, used to be every year around September, one Saturday morning the fire department would be in the middle of the highway to fill the boot for Jerry's kids, they bumped it up to summer last year, and I haven't seen it this year.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 7, 2021 1:01:52 GMT
One night Frank Sinatra performed and then told Jerry there was someone he wanted him to talk to. Out comes Dino. Jerry didn't want to have anything to do with him, but Frank prevailed upon him to at least feign reconciliation. I felt bad for Dino.
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Post by MistressMandoli on Jan 10, 2024 19:14:15 GMT
I know I'm late to this thread, but I remember watching it every year from as far back as I can remember growing up (like, the 90s on). I tried staying up through the night.
In Connecticut, the state's portion of the telethon was on WFSB, then FOX61. I volunteered to take pledges when FOX61 took over and the local chapter moved house to Mohegan Sun, kind of dragging my mother into it by mistake. We were interviewed during our first year working the phones by the news anchor, which was absolutely unexpected.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 10, 2024 20:08:18 GMT
Once or twice I stayed up for the whole marathon, god knows why. A couple of times I knew kids who held one of the carnivals, and went to one of them. Lewis got a lot of badmouthing in later years about the whole 'Jerry's Kids' thing...it might have been vulgar and in showbizzy bad taste in some ways, but the man raised one hell of a lot of money to promote research into the disease, whatever his reasons, and I always though it was a shame that he ended up being more or less belittled by the very people he had tried to help. If he was somewhat embittered over that in his final years, I'd say he had a bit of a right to be.
BTW, the Dean Martin 'reunion' thing--I read in the Nick Tosches bio of Martin that it was Martin who was not enthusiastic, came on and did a brief bit with Lewis, but left quickly and never had contact with Lewis again afterward. I can't swear as to how true that is, but I was always under the impression that it was Dean who pretty much cut ties with Jerry, and that Jerry was always somewhat devastated by this and for years kept hoping for some sort of gesture of reconciliation from Dean, which apparently never came.
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