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| Stars come out for WTC |
| 2001-09-23 |
Stars who needed no introductions did without them as an industry known for its excesses stripped to its essence in an unprecedented telethon to console and inspire a nation still reeling from a sucker punch by terrorists 10 days earlier. A global television audience, estimated Saturday at 89.06 million viewers with an average of 59.3 million at any one time in the United States alone, tuned in Friday night as the world's best-known entertainers wove tastefully understated solicitations to aid victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania with simple stories of courage and heroism. Other top movie and TV stars manned phones as leading recording artists on stark, dimly lit, candle-strewn stages played new songs and old favorites that resonated with new depth and meaning. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |