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UPDATE: Here’s the official announcement about the “Hope For Haiti” global telethon presented by MTV Networks to be broadcast January 22nd on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, and CMT, as well as social networked on Facebook and MySpace. It was first organized by George Clooney who will co-produce and host from Los Angeles. Just as George Clooney was in the process of putting the telethon together, he also fundraised. Now, Not On Our Watch, the international advocacy and grantmaking organization founded by actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, producer Jerry Weintraub, and human rights lawyer David Pressman, has directed $1 million (USD) in emergency response funds to provide medical services for victims of the disaster. The beneficiary of the grant is Partners In Health (PIH), presently directing relief efforts and emergency medical care for the wounded.
NEW YORK, NY and LOS ANGELES, CA (January 15, 2009) – In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, MTV Networks is presenting “Hope for Haiti,” a global telethon to air commercial‐free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT and 7:00 p.m. CT. “Hope for Haiti” will also be made available to MTV Networks International, CNN International and National Geographic channels worldwide.
Leading the charge for “Hope for Haiti” will be George Clooney in Los Angeles, Wyclef Jean in New York City and CNN’s Anderson Cooper from Haiti. The two‐hour telethon will be broadcast from New York City and Los Angeles, and will feature musical performances and celebrity appearances to be announced prior to the event, as well as live news reports from CNN. “Hope for Haiti” will be produced by Joel Gallen, Tenth Planet Productions, in collaboration with MTV Networks and George Clooney.
All proceeds will be split evenly among five relief organizations currently operating in Haiti: Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF and Yele Haiti Foundation. Facebook and MySpace have also signed on as official social media partners to help drive donations and tune‐in to the telethon.
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I just hope Kanye West is invited so that George Bush can be blamed for the earthquake and systemic poverty in Haiti. No, wait – I mean Sarah Palin, not George Bush. We already have Danny Glover asserting that the disaster is a result of global warming, so I know anything is possible.
Clooney, Pitt, Damon – yawn!
do more
Rush Limbaugh will not be pleased. So, fuck him.
that’s great, but they make so much money couldn’t they each donate a mil?
most of them donated$1 mil or more.
That’s what I was thinking.
Um, like all those mega-rich guys scrabbled up just $1 million?
Not for nothing, but if I had their money…
I don’t want to seem insensitive, the Haitians need help and Hollywood should help; but why can’t any of these same, step up to the plate and help their own out at the Motion Picture Television Fund? The Elderly actors, grips, electricians, secretaries that live out there in the Long Term Care facility are being evicted, put out of their homes, and separated from their friends and peers, with nowhere else to go. This after giving their whole lives to the business and paying into the MPTF with every paycheck on the promise that “We Take Care of Our Own”… typical limousine liberalism. WTF
This is the reason why I love show business. Will the credit card companies agree to forgo their processing fees on this one?
To all the Clooney-haters out there who are sure to Drudge in on this blog: What have you done for the human race lately…or ever?
I didn’t reproduce.
And Conan’s free to host!
Clooney lending his name and likeness to this fund-raising drive will certainly help the tragic situation in Haiti. And that is a GREAT thing. The situation in Haiti is unimaginable.
The only shame is the past use of his name and likeness to support the producer-friendly anti-working-man-and-woman SAG contract here at home puts many of us in the industry in a precarious position; wanting to help but in a situation where we are struggling to support our families and children with the knowledge our struggle will only get more grave as producers, including Clooney himself, amass money at our cost.
I hope Mr. Clooney will lend his name to supporting his neighbors here at home in this next round of contracts and help avoid a disaster at home.
Having said that I realize my opinion may not kiss enough ass to pass by the corporate-monitoring that is the new face of DHD.
Like Clooney and Haiti needs help but as always this stuff feels so self congratulatory and self promoting. Hope it gets some aid to the refugees.
I suggest giving your donation to the people who really are the “boots on the ground” in situations like this and have a proven track record in results and that is your local Church.
Here’s the thing: while George Clooney ramps up the George Clooney travelling relief effort ( are he and Brad Pitt going to do skits from Oceans 12?) , the news I heard on the radio from eyewitnesses today (today!) is, you go ANYWHERE in Haiti and you don’t see one single large earth-moving piece of equipment, or one single qualified experienced … See Morerescue/relief team in sight. Folks – 48 hours – tops? It’s over. I went through the Northridge eathquake in L.A. – same Richter scale rating as Haiti, only better buildings. Some anyway. My younger son and wife were in St John’s in Santa Monica, my son having been born 24 hours before the earthquake hit, and the maternity ward was destroyed. It’s amazing I HAVE a wife and younger son.
The people trapped in those buildings in Haiti who are alive and could possibly be rescued? Are dead. Sure there’s always a miracle baby who gets pulled out a week later or some other story, but when will we get the earthquake thing right for third world countries? Earthquake hits? Here comes the large equipment and the search and rescue teams. If they don’t exist in Haiti, we can have them there in 24 hours. But, no. We wait, and everybody gets on TV and tells us what they’re going to do, we all send in our donations, and all those people who might have been rescued, die. Then, in another week, the story gets boring, and it’s back to Tiger Woods. Remember Katrina? We couldn’t get it right HERE. I’ve been wondering: I wonder what Katrina survivors are thinking about all this? “Jesus, they let us drown. How the F are they going to get their shit together to save the poor people trapped under buildings in Haiti?” The Republicans say “don’t rely on the Federal government,” and I always wonder, why not? What the fuck are they THERE for but to get in there fast as lightening with everything they’ve got when the shit hits the fan?
The lesson is that backwards, minority-controlled areas never get it right and the aftermath of a disaster is sometimes worse than the disaster with general crime, disease, and disorder. This of course is completely bewildering but I’m sure it’s some white person’s fault.
Starz better thank its lucky, erm, starz for on demand services and PVR, because their new big budget tentpole series just got its debut crushed. Ouch.
Let’s hope Clooney does a better job at tracking these funds than he did last time. United Way, 9/11 Fund anyone?
I hope that was a million each.
Wasn’t there some controversy about Clooney’s 9/11 telethon, and the disbursement of funds? What doesn’t Clooney just call his rich A list friends and have them donate a percentage of their million dollar salaries….or perhaps Clooney could hold a telethon for all the unemployed Americans…..
I never saw a U-Haul trailing a hearst. Bill Gates has the right idea…..
Its admirable that George Clooney and other stars have sent money and will be doing the telethon next Friday as they did after other tragedies but here’s my objection- by the time the telethon is aired well over a week will have passed by and millions of us will have already donated.
I found it insulting the last time that stars like Julia Roberts begged us to donate money like it had never occurred to us before and we would only do so because they implored us.
So, I would ask that they show the American people the respect due us as a generous people. And, I pray they bring in millions.
Cautionary tale:
I applaud anyone who wishes to help the Haiti victims…but just keep in mind the telethon Hollywood threw for the 9/11 families. They promised that every dime would go to the families. They stressed every dime-directly to the families-no administration costs withheld. Two years later, the families reported they had never received a penny much less a dime.
The worst part was some media turned to the same Hollywood actors for help to put pressure on the funds’ administrators to get the money to the families and Hollywood gave the media the finger and told them to pound sand. To this date, I’ve never heard whether the families ever received the money that was collected at that telethon. So I’m not sure where all the money went. I know there were hearings on the HIll for the Red Cross…hopefully it all got straightened out for the 9/11 families sake.
I hope the either Clooney and crowd have learned from the past and plan to follow through better while asking for money for their cause or people just donate to bona fide relief organizations that are already up and running.
this is why I don’t listen to celebrities who plee for money (they themselves have)…
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0114102wyclef1.html
What is being planned is admirable and I applaud those involved. But I find it odd that with all of the other donations and work being done by other celebrities, this is the only one mentioned and the Not on Our Watch Donation is the only one mentioned. I admire the people working with Not on Our Watch, but it is not George Clooney’s alone. George is a good guy, but he is not the only good guy out there, but this posting would make us think that.
Anticipating an excess of self-congratulation and ego-stroking among the Hollywood elite for how compassionate they are and how much better they are than people in flyover country; the National Weather Service is issuing an early smug alert. Officials at the NWS expect the smug storm to be as severe as the one that hit South Park in 2006 and are urging residents in the area to begin planning for evacuations.
A person that is trying to win a award and trys to take advantage of the Haitian people when they are suffering death and distruction is the lowest form of human behavior. Donate a million without giving you name! Maybe two or three million.
Mr. Clooney just wonts his picture on the screen, and no critics giving him the usual thumbs down that he get on all his movies.
I applaud ME Clooney and all who want to help the Haitians out at this time of need but where was all of this help at during Katrina in 05 and Gustav/Ike in 09. I am a retired disabled vet and live in Louisiana and still see the devastatioon here. So much red tape to get anything done here by the Fed/state government. I lost everything in my Apt last year and was turned down both by FEMA and the SBA and yet both my neighbors(African Americans) were approved. I just hope this money will go to the People that need it. I just believe we should help out our own 1st especially vets who have sacrificed their lives and bodyparts 1st.
Does anyone know where it’s gonna air in NY? Times Square? I can’t find any details about that
Thanks
Just wondering if Wyclef Jean is going to get paid for this? Amid the allegations, a spokesman admitted that Wyclef GOT PAID an appearance fee from his own charity organization. That means he could not donate his own time (without pay) for his own charity, but we should ?
Don’t get me wrong, please help and donate, but do it through reputable charities, not celebrity champagne room charities!