Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in less than 3 Weeks — TIMPANI! OH, YEAH!!!
August 14th, 2008 by Scott Marks
A round trip ticket to Marvelous!
Labor Day is, as Andy Williams would say, the most wonderful time of the year! It’s Christmas, New Year’s, The 4th of July and Pesach all rolled into one because it’s the one weekend out of the year that I am guaranteed to see JEEEEEEERRY!
The 43rd annual love-in will originate for the third year in a row from the marvelous South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in marvelous, marvelous Las Vegas, Nev. There will be a lot to talk about on this year’s ‘Thon. Do you think Jerry will goof on the recent financial tsouris sidekick Ed McMahon has had to endure? OH, YEAH! Will there be a tearful tribute to commemorate the recent loss of the disorderly heart surgeon and Jerry’s personal physician for almost 40 years, Dr. Michael DeBakey? OH, YEAH!! Will Norm Crosby wow the crowd with his flair for malaprop? OH, NO!!!
Sadly, Norm appears to be the only remnant of the old guard scheduled to appear on this year’s Extra-Special Special. No Rip Taylor, Sam Butera, Rickles, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Jones, and alas, no Charlie Callas’ Tap Dancing Alligator” or the M-M-M-M-ZIP-Maestro’s seminal I Remember It Well routine (***weep***). Pep boy Bart Conner will be there, but we won’t have the thrill of hearing Nadia Comaneci mangle the simplest names of gold and silver star donors.
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Stem Cell Research may lead to treatment of muscular dystrophy & epilepsy
June 5th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Gene Pool
I know Emulsion Compulsion is a movie site, but it’s Jerry-related so bear with me.
You don’t have to study the heavens tonight to know that the stars are in their courses.
Timpani…
On the same day disability and civil rights attorney Harriet McBryde Johnson died, scientists at London’s Newcastle University announced the creation of a stem cell technique designed to offer a treatment for a series of genetic conditions, including some forms of muscular dystrophy and epilepsy.
OH, YEAH!!!
Earlier this year a team that’s a hell of a lot smarter that you and me created the first IVF embryos to contain DNA from one man and two women. The technique can create a child “with three parents” and could prevent a host of deadly hereditary diseases. Scientists believe that this can all be achieved within three years.
Is this the same stem cell research that Jackanape in Chief George Bush wants outlawed?
I credit 1968 as the first year that I began watching the Telethon with regularity. This year marks the 40th year that I don’t leave my house on labor day. From 1972 to up until around ten years ago when Jerry started taking nap breaks, I logged as many hours per year as humanly possible. The advent of VCR’s made it much easier to enjoy all twenty-one-and-a-half hours of the annual love-in.
In spite of it’s annual one-day shelf life, the Telethon means almost as much to me as the movies do. The man behind it is the first (presumably) non-animated artist ever to punch my memory card. As early as five-years old Lewis was on my radar and I hunted down each one of his new releases. His pictures splattered all over the movie section made it easier on a kid just learning to read.
The Chicago American TV Guide was my first Bible and every Saturday night I scoured its pages for Jerry Who Else’s? name. Even though I had no conception of what a telethon is, Jerry’s name was above the title so count me in. The first syndicated Telethon was broadcast Labor Day weekend, 1966. At a family get-together, my cousins watched some noxious sporting event while I stole away to the back bedroom to see my first glimpses of Jerry the humanitarian. Two years later I had one of the older kids on the block buy me a pack of No-Doz to help me make it through the night. I was hooked!
As much as I would like to tell you more about today’s scientific breakthrough, who am I kidding. I could barely make my way through this story let alone the latest issue of New Scientist magazine.
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