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Jerry Lewis no longer MDA’s national chairman

By doris | Published: August 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com TUCSON, Ariz. — The Muscular Dystrophy Association says comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as the organization’s national chairman. The 85-year-old Lewis has been the MDA’s national chairman since the early 1950s. He announced in May that he was retiring as host of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon [...]

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Shootout at the ‘True Grit’ corral: Which film wins?

By doris | Published: February 23, 2011

Full Story atTODAYmsnbc.msn.com The two versions of “True Grit” are like Athens, Greece, and Athens, Georgia: They’ve got the same name, but they’re in totally different worlds. Yet for all their differences, both Westerns found plenty of fans and got plenty of Oscar attention. John Wayne was named Best Actor for the 1969 original, and [...]

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Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raises $58.9 million

By doris | Published: September 7, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LAS VEGAS — Despite the struggling economy, officials with the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon say contributions and pledges from this year’s Labor Day event totaled $58.9 million. While the amount was down from $60.5 million last year and a record $65 million in 2008, Lewis said he was pleased with the [...]

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Bill Cosby: I’m alive. Now, please cut it out

By doris | Published: August 3, 2010

Full Story at news.blogs.CNN.com Bill Cosby is used to winking at internet rumors of his death. But after another one spread Monday, he said he hopes people will give the hoaxes a rest. After false news of Cosby’s death spread by Twitter on Monday – “Bill Cosby died” was a trending topic on the microblogging [...]

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Kevin Costner Promoting Oil Cleanup Machine

By doris | Published: May 22, 2010

Full Story at gnn.com (MAY 20) — They’ve tried just about everything else to address the oil spill from a blown-out well in the Gulf, so why not an oil extraction machine backed by a famous Hollywood actor?Kevin Costner was in Louisiana today with such a device, this one working on the principal of centrifugal [...]

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