How I Miss the Old Children’s Miracle Network Telethon Children’s Miracle Network , the giant charity that raises money for 175 children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada had its annual telethon this last weekend, such as it is. They don’t call a telethon any more; haven’t called it that for perhaps 15 years. But still I miss it. Of course this is just personal nostalgia. I wrote the old-school Children’s Miracle Network Telethon for five years, and so I was intimately involved with its production. My first CMN Telethon featured Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald and they sang a kick-butt version of the Doobie Brothers’ hit “What a Fool Believes,” which they co-wrote and for which they won a Grammy Award. I don’t know how it looked and sounded to the TV audience, but my mind’s eye will never forget watching them live from the outdoor stage at Disneyland’s Videopolis ! That night we kept a skeleton audience who stayed for a long list of comedy performers do sets right on the...
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