Short Takes : Album, Video to Fight Hunger

Actors Dennis Weaver and Valerie Harper have put together some of rock music’s biggest names to make an album and video so they can feed more homeless.

“The sad part is, there is a need for that growth because the hungry part of our population just keeps growing,” Weaver said Monday.

Since the two actors founded Love Is Feeding Everyone in 1983, LIFE has increased the number of meals it serves in Dallas and Los Angeles from 400 per week to about 104,000.

About 25 performers, including rapper M. C. Hammer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Little Richard, plan to sing on the album’s feature track, “Raise the World.”

Weaver said he and Harper hope to expand the private relief organization to other cities and raise enough money to create an endowment.