《群星照亮千万心》第二场
　伤兵献诚意

● 洪铭铧

　全国肾脏基金会（下称肾基会）《群星照亮千万心》第二场演出总共筹得550万元，比上星期第一场演出少了110万元，比去年的第二场演出少了90万元。

　　以演出项目内容来说，其实这场演出别具新意，无论是倒吊乐团、人体音乐喷泉、罗厘打网球或是李国煌、葛米星的双人搞笑默剧，都是较少见的表演，也不靠肉体受伤或惊险元素来刺激观众的同情心，实在是值得予以肯定。

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　　不过，第二场演出只有八个项目，每个项目的时间都不长，有时为了充塞时间而延长，难免显得拖拉，影响了节目的紧凑性。不知道这是不是导致筹款额下降的原因？

　　另外，上一场演出过后，本报影艺热线接获不少观众来电，指责主办单位在电视荧幕上打出捐款热线号码时，没有注明是多少钱一通，以致他们“受误导”捐出了“冤枉钱”。这场演出，主办单位从善如流，在热线号码之下清楚标示“价钱”，尽管后来时段显示的字体超小，总算对观众有所交代；观众看清楚了电话热线所代表的捐款额，也就不会再“误捐”。不知道这是不是导致演出筹款额下降的另一原因？

　　尽管筹款额掉了，但是演出艺人的努力不应抹杀，事实上，这场演出可说是伤兵不少。

八艺人空腹六小时演《倒吊乐团》

开场的《倒吊乐团》呈现了有趣的视觉效果，比如王爱玲“倒吊”后，长发直垂如须；几名女艺人绑辫子上阵，“倒吊”后好像头上长了角。当主持人上前访问时，正反更是分明，趣味盎然。

　　表演完毕后，演出者之一的赵彩菱直说长这么大，最丑就这一天，因为整个人倒吊时，她感觉脸部肿胀如鱼丸，吹奏起萨克斯管时眼球更似乎要吹爆了。　

    为了避免倒吊时呕吐，参与演出的8名艺人午餐后就没有进食，6小时空腹的结果，赵彩菱说人人表现得像饿鬼，见到食物就咬。偏偏演出当天是她的生日，寿星婆无意间被陈汉炜爆出她将和男友一起庆祝生日，只好从实招来，承认和这名圈外的男友不过交往一个月。　　陈汉炜说当晚他们八人倒吊近半个小时，破了彩排的纪录，画面上只见他最青筋爆现，他说不觉得特别痛苦，只是天生如此。他们演奏一曲《情非得已》，因为跑调被主持人曹启泰两次要求重来，陈汉炜坦言最后一次其实仍有小错，还好混过关。.....　　

NKF Charity Show 2 - Wounded Soldiers showed their sincerity

  NKF Charity Show 2 last night raised $5.50million with 1.1 million less than the first & 90 thousand less than last year's second show.

In terms of content, actually this show is refreshing whether it is the up-side-down band, human musical fountain etc......they are less seen performances. They didn't depend on hurting body or danger factor to gain audience sympathy. It's really deserving of recognition.

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  But the second show only had 8 programmes and every programme is not long so sometimes they are prolonged to fill time. It's unavoidably draggy & affect the programme's compactness.  Could this be the reason why the amount raised drop? 

    Also, after the first show, our entertainment hotline received many calls complaining that when the call number appeared on the screen  it didn't state how much it cost per call. It "misled" them to donate "wrong amount of money". In this show, the organiser corrected this & clearly state "amount of money" under the call number. Though in the later part of the show the characters are super small, at least audience could see clearly the amount per call & not "donate wrongly". Wonder if this is also the reason why the fund raised dropped.

   Although the amount dropped, the hard work of the artistes shouldn't be denied. Actually in this show there are many wounded soldiers.

Eight artistes kept their stomachs empty for six hours  performing <Upside-down Band> 

   The opening <Upside-down Band> present funny visuals for example when Wang Ailing "hanged upside-down", her long hair fell straight down like beard; those female artistes who tied up their hair after hanging upside-down look like horns have grown from their heads. When the hosts went to interview them, the contrast look funny.

  After her performance, Jaime Teo said that her ugliest moment in life is this day. Because when the whole person hang upside-down, she felt her face swelled like a fish ball. When she played the saxophone her eyes seemed to pop out.

  In order to avoid vomiting after hanging, the 8 participating artistes didn't eat anything after lunch. After 6 hours of empty stomach, Jaime Teo seemed like a hungry ghost. She ate whatever food she saw. Coincidentally that day was also her birthday. Chen Hanwei accidentally let the cat out of the bag that she would be celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend. She had no choice & admitted that she is with this boyfriend outside the circle for a month.

 Chen Hanwei said that the eight of them hung upside down for half an hour, breaking their rehearsal record. In the scene it can be seen his veins stood out the most. He said he didn't suffer specially, it's just that he's naturally like that. They played ,Qing Fei De Yi> & were asked to repeat twice by hosts Cao Qi Tai because they were out of tune. Chen Hanwei admitted that there were still some minor mistake at the last time but they still passed...