SHORT TAKES : Lewis Telethon Coming to L.A.
The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, an entertainment fixture here for 17 years, will move to Los Angeles this year, officials of the Muscular Dystrophy Assn. said today.
“It’s really a matter of economics,” Jerry Weinberg, director of field organization for the MDA, said in a telephone interview from the association’s New York City headquarters. “We’ve always brought most of the talent in from Los Angeles, and there was a cost involved. It was much more cost-effective to move to Los Angeles.”
The telethon has raised more than half a billion dollars during its 17-year run in Las Vegas, including a record $42,209,727 last September.
Lewis, 63, could not be reached by phone for comment on the move.
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