Hollywood's Megamoguls Callously Closing Entertainment Industry Nursing Home
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On January 14th, 2009, the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), a 501(c)(3) charity whose motto is “Taking Care of Our Own,” took 100 elderly and infirm residents, their families and the entire Hollywood community by surprise when it announced the closure of their long-term care facility, also known as a nursing home.
This historic and vital facility has cared for many of Hollywood's greats, including Bud Abbott, Stanley Kramer, Larry Fine, Hattie McDaniel and many, many more. But now, the current generation of Hollywood heavyweights, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso, Casey Wasserman and Hawk Koch, among others, have decided unilaterally to abandon this charity's stated mission to "take care of our own" and are evicting these seniors, subjecting them to deadly transfer trauma.
Many of the residents of this historic Home -- writers, directors, actors and craftspeople -- signed over their lives’ savings and assets with the promise that this Home would be where they lived out their remaining days, surrounded by the community of their peers.
Instead, they’re being subjected to the emotional and physical trauma of forced relocation. Melody Sherwood’s mother, Kay Meyer, 94, “is in a panic believing she’s going to be thrown out and can’t go back to her room because she personally owes 10 million dollars.” Continues Sherwood, “She always believed that this was going to be her Home for life.”
Please sign our petition at www.tinyurl.com/mptfhome and join us on Facebook and at our website www.savingthelivesofourown.org. Every day that passes puts another elderly life in jeopardy.
This historic and vital facility has cared for many of Hollywood's greats, including Bud Abbott, Stanley Kramer, Larry Fine, Hattie McDaniel and many, many more. But now, the current generation of Hollywood heavyweights, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso, Casey Wasserman and Hawk Koch, among others, have decided unilaterally to abandon this charity's stated mission to "take care of our own" and are evicting these seniors, subjecting them to deadly transfer trauma.
Many of the residents of this historic Home -- writers, directors, actors and craftspeople -- signed over their lives’ savings and assets with the promise that this Home would be where they lived out their remaining days, surrounded by the community of their peers.
Instead, they’re being subjected to the emotional and physical trauma of forced relocation. Melody Sherwood’s mother, Kay Meyer, 94, “is in a panic believing she’s going to be thrown out and can’t go back to her room because she personally owes 10 million dollars.” Continues Sherwood, “She always believed that this was going to be her Home for life.”
Please sign our petition at www.tinyurl.com/mptfhome and join us on Facebook and at our website www.savingthelivesofourown.org. Every day that passes puts another elderly life in jeopardy.
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