According to MTV, the “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon, to be broadcast on Friday, Jan. 22, has added appearances by Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Bill Clinton, and Muhammad Ali.
Among the other film personalities scheduled to participate in the telethon are Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brad Pitt, Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, Bradley Cooper, Renée Zellweger, Chris Pine, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Colin Farrell, Gabourey Sidibe, and Emily Blunt.
Performing from Los Angeles, New York, and London will be Jennifer Hudson, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Sting, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will also take part in the telethon, reporting from Haiti.
"It's a big world out there, and we all have a lot of responsibility to look out for people who can't look out for themselves," George Clooney said in an MTV interview broadcast on Thursday night. "So what we can do is first and foremost, raise money."
Anywhere between 50,000 and 200,000 were killed by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that leveled much of Port-au-Prince. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere.
“Hope for Haiti Now” will air commercial-free at 8pm ET on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, and E! Entertainment, in addition to MTV channels worldwide. It will alsostream live on YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, and Rhapsody and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and FloTV.
For 99 cents, viewers can also download musical performances from the show on iTunes. Profits will be donated to Haiti relief.
i first saw julia robers on the movie pretty woman. she is really very beautiful'`,
Julia Roberts always have that classice beauty that we admire.-,,
i like David Arquette as a comedian, he is like James Belushi somtimes.;~~
I don't want to be impolite. I wonder how one talks about movie stars getting on tv asking Americans, many of whom, are out of work, living on unemployment (if they still have some left) and others of us struggling, to give to Haiti, when they themselves live very decadent lifestyles. Most Movie Stars, and I won't name names, preach about giving and preserving natural resources, and, they are the ones who are able to give; they live in 10,000 plus square foot mansions, which is hardly 'green' or good for the environment.
It is always the middle class and poor people who give, so, we don't need the rich elite to remind us!
I wonder if the supplies the supplies they but with the money raised will get stuck at the airport? Will they guarantee its delivery?