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Crystal views New Orleans for 'Comic Relief',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
His first stop from the airport was the home of Herbert Gettridge Sr. in the Lower 9th Ward. Wearing paint-stained work pants, a flannel shirt and a ball cap, Gettridge, a plasterer by trade, knocked off his rebuilding work long enough to talk to Crystal about the house he built in the early 1950s.
After a long evacuation trail, Gettridge, 83, was living in the house again, alone. He received electricity just a few days earlier for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. Still no gas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though, and Gettridge appeared to be his devastated neighborhood only current resident.
The awards show host and star of TV ( Night Live films ( Harry Met Sally,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], This and stage ( Sundays was in New Orleans to shoot segments to be inserted into tomorrow broadcast of Relief. The show will originate from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and will be carried on cable TV by HBO and TBS.
Returning to HBO for the first time since 1998, Relief has raised more than $50 million to benefit the homeless since its 1986 American debut.
This time, it happening for Katrina causes.
At Crystal side during the three-hour broadcast will be Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg. Hughley, Ray Romano and Rita Rudner.
A simultaneous live performance, some of which will be carried on the national broadcasts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is scheduled in New Orleans.
Sitting on his porch, Gettridge retraced his post-Katrina odyssey for Crystal, a trek that eventually led him and his wife of 67 years, Lydia, to Madison, Wis. She still there. Gettridge returned to restore his house, a pioneer in the shattered 9th Ward. The separation is their longest since World War II.
been all over, Gettridge said.
A small camera crew captured the dialogue for HBO. A few steps to the side, a small CNN crew captured the HBO crew.
couldn do the show without coming here, Crystal said in a later interview. can honestly stand on stage and say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], up the phone and help us, if I hadn been here. claims a lifelong link to New Orleans culture.
His father, Jack,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], managed the Commodore Music Shop in New York,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an international nexus of jazz life at midcentury.
His uncle Milt Gabler was considered a giant of jazz, producing records such as Billie Holiday Fruit and Louis Jordan Choo Ch which Gabler co-wrote.
Gabler also is credited with conceiving the duet duo of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
always felt an affinity for the music, Crystal said of New Orleans. still listen to it a lot. Orleans food is another bond for Crystal.
I used to come here sometimes just to eat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he said. tried to book jobs near K-Paul I would play colleges or someplace around and think, know what? I could go to New Orleans tomorrow to eat. HBO entourage second setup was in the Holy Cross neighborhood.
Stephanie Bruno, Operation Comeback director for the Preservation Resource Center,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was waiting there at the invitation of Bob Zmuda, who founded the American branch of Relief and is still its president.
She didn know she be interviewed by Crystal until he popped out of his van,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
had told me he had a surprise, Bruno said. was really struck by this international comedy star taking the time to come down to Holy Cross and see it with his own eyes. her segment with Crystal, Bruno explained Operation Comeback work in Holy Cross, and she and Crystal toured one of the homes undergoing restoration.
feel like Bob Vila, Crystal said.
Operation Comeback work has been both informational offering tours and workshops and literally constructive marshaling actual rebuilding of selected homes.
By restoring clusters of homes on one block, the project is trying generate activity and excitement for people who may be on the fence about coming back, Bruno said.
She also explained to Crystal that her group had recently surveyed the neighborhood,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and that only 100 of its 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],600 buildings were currently occupied. But, she said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there were many other signs of life including FEMA trailers on about 200 properties, plus hundreds more homes that have been gutted in preparation for rehab.
beyond belief that it still like this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that there not enough progress, he said. is some progress in some places, but people can be fooled that the Saints played on Night Football and that New Orleans is saved, it done.
like an old story. We have such a mind-set, which I think started with the remote control years ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of clicking on and off and getting off things real fast. We clicked off this story, a lot of people, after the water receded. We think it back to normal.
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