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Arquette will stay in box to spotlight hunger

Actor to spend two days above Madison Square Garden marquee in NYC

Imge: David Arquette
Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP
Actor in a box: David Arquette will spend Tuesday and Wednesday above the Madison Square Garden marquee in New York City.
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updated 11:24 a.m. ET July 10, 2009

NEW YORK - David Arquette is going to stay in a box in New York City to raise money for the hungry.

The 37-year-old actor is staying in a Plexiglas box above the Madison Square Garden marquee on Tuesday and Wednesday to raise $250,000 for Feeding America — the nation's largest domestic hunger relief charity. He'll stay in the box each day for about eight hours.

Donations can come through text messages, on site and a Facebook page set up by Mars Inc., the company that makes Snickers candy bars.

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A Mars spokesman says Arquette will eat during his two-day stay in the plastic enclosure.

Arquette starred in the "Scream" movie franchise.

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