Daily Show's Jon Stewart Promotes Benefit CD For Teacher Who Encouraged Him

[Murray Charters <mcharters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daily Show's Jon Stewart Promotes Benefit CD For Teacher Who Encouraged Him
Canada East, Canada - May 11, 2004

NEW YORK (AP) - Selma Litowitz laughed, and for that, Jon Stewart is still 
grateful.

The Daily Show host is promoting a two-CD compilation by singer-songwriters to 
benefit the Parkinsong Foundation. It
was set up by the children of Litowitz, Stewart's former English teacher who is 
afflicted with Parkinson's disease, a
degenerative nerve condition. Stewart was a self-confessed smart aleck while in 
high school in Lawrence, N.J., and most
of his teachers were constantly telling him to pipe down. Not Mrs. Litowitz.

"She was very patient, she was very understanding," Stewart said Monday. "She 
was the only one who made me feel that
there was some kind of useful skill behind what I was doing."

And how did she do that?

"She laughed," he said.

Reference:

Parkinsong ~ 38 Songs of Hope


SOURCE: Canada East, Canada - May 11, 2004


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