Entertainment Weekly proclaimed Mary J. Blige's performance of Hard Times Come Again No More as the best number of the Hope For Haiti Now benefit, and I heartily co-sign. Mary J. managed to take a Civil War era song (it was written in 1854) and make it sound like her own. DIVA.
Side Note: I'd like to extend the following gesture to the not-even-trying-to-hide-it heartless racists at Fox News for not airing Hope for Haiti Now ...
The following networks aired the telethon, thereby donating their resources and losing ad revenue (partial list): ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX Network (non news), CNN, MSNBC, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, CNN en Español and EVEN FRIGGIN' HBO Latino!!!. Fox News did not. Disgusting.
