Hope for Haiti Telethon a Success

The Hollywood elite banded together on every major network in America on Friday to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Celebrities such as Tobey Maguire, Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, Mel Gibson and many others manned the phones while Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, along with others performed. The telethon raised more than $57 million. The star-studded event shattered records for money donated by the public through a telethon.