Movie, Music Stars to Raise Millions for Kerry [View All]

Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond will sing together for the first time in 24 years on Thursday, bringing not flowers but millions of dollars for Democrat John Kerry's U.S. presidential campaign.
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The Los Angeles concert on Thursday, and a concert in New York on July 8 featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band and Mary J. Blige, are expected to raise about $10 million for Kerry's coffers. Ticket prices range from $250 to $25,000 a seat.
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"It is ambitious, but it was surprisingly easy to arrange. I've never quite seen before how ready everyone was to show up and work. It is a diverse array of people," said Rolling Stone magazine editor Jann Wenner, who is executive producer of both the Los Angeles and New York shows.
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"There's nobody I can recall calling up for the concerts who has said. 'No, I don't believe in that. I don't want to do it,"' he said.

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