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The event, emceed by Gene Taylor
of Dick Purtan's radio show, begins
with a silent auction at 6 p.m. and
moves on to the 7:15 p.m. dinner and
ong before Gilda's Club
8 p.m. program at St. John's Armenian
offered meeting places to sup-
Banquet Center in Southfield.
port cancer patients and their
We wanted an evening of comedy
families and long before
with a performer people could relate to
Ronald McDonald Houses provided
the stature of Gilda Radner," says Geri
accommodations for
Lester, who co-chairs
parents whose children
the event with Debbie
were being treated in
Comedian Paula
and is one of
faraway hospitals, come-
Poundstone will help Belovich
the seven founders of
dian Paula Poundstone's
the local support
family opened their
raise funds for the
group. "We've had
home to one cancer
cancer support
about 600 members
patient and his family.
our 1998 open-
Poundstone still
community inspired by since
ing, and we've had
feels the impact of that
the late, Detroit-born many Jewish people
experience, which she
use our services.
had as a teenager .
Gilda Radner.
Radner, who
I had been out
reached stardom
baby-sitting and came
appearing on TV's
home to find people [I
Saturday Night Live,
didn't know] sitting
was one of
around our kitchen
Poundstone's show-
table," recalls the
biz heroes. As
comedian, who is
Radner battled ovari-
about to entertain at a
an cancer, she
benefit for the Royal
K
mapped out a plan
Oak-based Gilda's
for the network of
Club Metro Detroit.
meeting places that
"My mother found
evolved into Gilda'a
an article in the paper
Clubs across the
about a family from
country.
Texas who had come to
"I never knew
Paula Poundstone: "I never
Massachusetts while
Gilda,
but I kept her
her
I
kept
knew
Gilda,
but
[their son] got treat-
poster up on my
poster up on my wall"
ment for bone cancer.
wall," Poundstone
My mother was from
recalls. "My favorite thing was listen-
Texas and decided she should call
ing to her do Emily Litella. It just
them. They lived with us on and off for
made me laugh a lot. I liked Roseanne
about a year while [the boy underwent]
Rosannadana, but I miss Emily."
chemotherapy and surgery.
For her performance at the benefit,
"I used to play ping-pong with this
Poundstone
will talk about politics
kid and just slammed the ball.
and raising her adopted and foster
Everybody else would be really kind.
children.
He liked to play with me because it
"Generally speaking, the show has a
was more normal. They cured the can-
lot to do with the people [sitting] in
cer, and we're still friends. I travel a
front of me," Poundstone, 39, says. "To
lot, so I [still] see him."
some degree, [interacting with the audi-
When Poundstone comes to
ence] has a lot to do with having a bad
Michigan Wednesday, May 19, she will
memory. It's one of the reasons I got
be starring in "Gilda's Big Night Out,"
fairly good at talking to the crowd. I
an evening of comedy, food and fun to
would go blank, and I'd be forced to
raise funds for the free cancer support
talk to somebody. I don't go blank quire
community named for the late, Detroit-
as often [now], but it turned out that
bred, Jewish comedian Gilda Radner.
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