The Night Before benefit will not go gently into that good night
Diane Garrett reports here at Variety that the annual Night Before benefit will go on regardless of the goings-on with the Oscar telecast. Here's how she starts:
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The Motion Picture & Television Fund's annual Night Before fund-raiser will proceed as usual on Feb. 23 -- but with even more urgency this year, as requests for financial assistance have grown an astonishing 700% over last year.
Motion Picture & Television Fund organizers said they decided to proceed with the fund-raiser, which reaped nearly $8 million last year, to raise even more coin for the people affected by the writers strike, which began Nov. 5.
"I don't think there's been a time when the needs of the community have been greater than they are now," said founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, who noted that calls for assistance are growing with each day. "There are a lot of people in need, and we've got to help them."
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