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At school we started the
Lanny and Vince Fan Club...
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... raising almost $200
for that year's telethon.
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All of you send in
a bit of your allowance.
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Just a little bit.
A dime, a nickel, a penny.
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Every bit helps.
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The goal of the telethon that year...
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... was $3.9 million, which was
a lot of dough at that time.
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Thank you, Tom.
You're a prince among men.
:15:27
Whoa, Lanny. There are
children watching!
:15:30
Where does he get his energy?
:15:32
To remind viewers of the goal...
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... we agreed the telethon
could run 39 hours nonstop.
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The show would begin at 9 p.m. On
Friday and finish at noon on Sunday.
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We paced it so that
Vince and I were together...
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... for the kickoff,
most of the day Saturday...
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... then the big finale
on Sunday with us bleary-eyed...
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... and weeping as America
got ready to go to church.
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Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing?
:15:58
I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving.
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No anchovies on mine, Lanny.
Hey, so who are you talking to?
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I'm talking to little Suzie
from Whittier, California...
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...and she is going to donate
three weeks of allowance.
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- How about that, folks?
- Suzie from Whittier, thank you.
:16:15
Three weeks of allowance.
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That's a challenge for all you...
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What you have to understand
is that Vince and me...
:16:21
... were essentially a boy-girl act.
:16:23
I was the tramp,
ready for any sort of action...
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... and Vince was the gentleman...
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... always trying to make me
behave myself.
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I was pleasure, and he was control.
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I was rock 'n' roll,
and he was class.
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His presence gave America
permission to like me.
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My deal with the publisher
gave me first-class travel...
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... a luxury I'd never enjoyed.
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Is there any chance of switching
to a window seat?
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Sorry, we're completely booked
in first.
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But these center seats
are really wonderful. See...
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...if you push here...
Can I show you?
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Sure.