Tsunami 'Concert of Hope': Less than stellar audience
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Despite a stellar turnout, Saturday night's Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope was not a ratings blockbuster. The two-hour, mostly live show averaged 5.7 million viewers on NBC, according to preliminary estimates, which showed Fox's football telecast averaging 21.5 million.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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Some of the Britain's top rock and pop  stars will perform on Saturday at the UK's biggest charity  concert since Live Aid 20 years ago to raise funds for victims  of the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Madonna, Diana Ross, Maroon 5 and Mary J. Blige are among the performers who are joining the NBC Universal benefit special "Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope." The program, which will benefit the American Red Cross, will air Saturday on NBC, and NBC cable properties, Telemundo and PAX.
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Rock stars are combining forces around  the world to record Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" and raise  money for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Individual officials, with abundant if not always well-coordinated international aid, are in many cases improvising effective local responses to the tsunami and helping to avert outbreaks of disease and hunger.
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Well said...   "These powerful and well-funded political Christian fundamentalist organizations appear to be suffering from a compassion deficit. Organizations which are amazingly quick to organize to fight against same-sex marriage, a woman's right to choose, and embryonic stem cell research are missing in action when it comes to responding to the disaster in southern Asia. None of their web sites are actively soliciting aid for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami."  "In fact, there is no mention of the giant earthquake and tsunami that devastated southern Asia. There are no headlines about the dead, injured or the tremendous damage; there are no urgent appeals for donations; there are  ...
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens is hosting a concert in Indonesia to benefit victims of the tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The new year began for  millions of tsunami survivors with grieving and trauma, but a  few of the luckier ones saw a ray of hope as the outside world  finally came to their rescue.
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More than 60,000 people crammed into the Millennium Stadium in the Welsh capital Cardiff for a marathon pop concert to raise money for the victims of last month's tsunami disaster.
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Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible. They were the type of images you were hard-pressed to see during hours of television coverage.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - It's not unusual for adoring  Japanese pop fans to sing along with their idols during a  concert. But it's not often that an American audience does that  -- and gets all the Japanese words right.
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Some wonder whether celebrities' post-tsunami generosity might be motivated as much by self-promotion as by philanthropy.
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Along with several large concerts in the planning stages, artists around the world are putting on their own benefit shows or donating to funds for the victims of the recent tsunami in Southern Asia.
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Concert-stage performances of American Indian dance and music are rare in New York City. But âThe Drum Is the Thunder, the Flute Is the Windâ was often disappointing.
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Across nations and religions there has been a search for explanations of why the tsunami killed some and not others.
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Unlike most of the members of India's flourishing entertainment business, Bollywood star Vivek Oberoi chose to take part directly in tsunami relief efforts.