Jerry Lewis moves MDA telethon to Vegas
Telethon could not find room in CBS lot so it decided to move locations
Jerry Lewis is moving his annual telethon for Muscular Dystrophy from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, according to the Associated Press.
"There's something about Los Angeles that subjugates it," Lewis, 80, told reporters and reported by the AP, Thursday on the set at the South Coast hotel-casino south of the Las Vegas Strip. "I always feel like I'm claustrophobic there."
MDA Association spokesman Bob Mackle told the AP the move is because the telethon, which has raised over $1 billion, had been moved to the backburner at the CBS lot because of other productions.
"Once we lost that, then there was no real reason to stay in L.A.," Mackle told the wire service. "That opened the door wide up."