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• Just found this on line.

  ALERT !!!!!!!!!

  Motion Picture & Television Fund to Hold Audio Press Conference to Address Concerns and Inaccuracies Regarding the Upcoming Closure of Its Hospital and Acute Care Facilities
  WOODLAND HILLS, CA–(Marketwire – February 10, 2009) – The Motion Picture & Television Fund, the entertainment industry’s premier health and social services organization, will be holding an audio press conference to address concerns about the recently announced closure of its hospital and acute care facilities. Also discussed will be inaccuracies being reported about the closure. The audio press conference is open to all media outlets. No advance RSVP is required.

  WHEN: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST

  CALL-IN: 800-700-7353; ask operator to join the MPTF call.

  PARTICIPATING: Frank Mancuso — Chairman, MPTF Corporate Board
  Jeffrey Katzenberg — Chairman, MPTF Foundation
  Joe Fischer — Chairman, MPTF Board of Trustees
  Dr. David Tillman — President and CEO, MPTF
  Ken Scherer — CEO, MPTF Foundation
  Seth Ellis — COO, MPTF
  Steve Valentine — CEO, The Camden Group
  Andy Garb — Loeb & Loeb (MPTF counsel)

  FORMAT: A brief overview of the situation and responses to specific
  allegations, followed by questions-and-answers. The call
  will end promptly at 12:30 p.m. PST.

  CALL REPLAY: An audio replay will be available for 7 days following the
  conference by calling 800-475-6701, access code: 986415.

  MPTF: For more than 86 years, the Motion Picture & Television
  Fund has served California’s entertainment community. It
  provides healthcare, retirement care, childcare and
  charitable social services with compassion and respect for
  the dignity of the whole person. MPTF is a leader in the
  development and implementation of services and programs for
  senior citizens. Charity has always remained at the heart
  of the Motion Picture & Television Fund. For more
  information about MPTF visit http://www.mptvfund.org.

  http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Motion-Picture-and-Television-Fund-948076.html

  News

  Comment by Jimmy b — Tuesday February 10, 2009 @ 5:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• If you want to close down a nursing home and destroy the lives of sick old people to build new condo’s for healthy and wealthy seniors, you hire and pay a consultant to give you the result you want to deflect your responsibility . Wonder who leaked the “secret document.” Could it be the CEO David Tillman or another Board member?
  Betcha they won’t leak the back up financial data. Ask them for it Nikki. Let’s see the costs to run the nursing home vs the money it brings in. Let’s see what it costs to run the multi trillion dollar administrative offices, and Jodie Foster swimming pool and the new exercise center for which they charge $25 a person per month. What’s the loss there from the construction costs and upkeep? Moral MP&&TF Board dilemma: throw out sick old people and destroy what’s left of their lives or throw out the 87 degree pool water?

  Comment by Jeffrey K — Tuesday February 10, 2009 @ 9:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• And exactly how much have you donated to the Fund recently? Seems like a lot of folks are rightfully pissed off about this but not so much that they will reach into their pockets to financially support the Fund. No wonder they are having trouble. Not only are healthcare costs increasing at a rate of roughly 10% each year, but the number of Industry workers choosing to donate has dropped off too. When is the last time you asked for a payroll deduction to go to the Fund?

  Either make a contribution or quit your moaning.

  Comment by Put up or shut up — Wednesday February 11, 2009 @ 10:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• There is a lot more going on than what they have said. They also are not saying anything to the employees. We know nothing. Seth Ellis is the worst spokesperson you could have for the fund. He has a vision for only himself- that is to keep his job and keep collecting that huge paycheck. He cares nothing about the residents or employees. And Jeffrey Katzenberg– what is he doing on the board. He brought Disney down and now he is bringing MPTF down. All board members and top executives should be thrown out.

  They don’t do any new kind of fundraising. They stick with the same old thing year in and year out. Ken Scherer – what are you still doing in your position?

  Labor increases 4%? Where?? Union workers got a 3% raise last year and this year is 2%. Non union workers get more and also a bonus. And the execs— Not only do they get a huge increase, but also a bonus. And their bonus’s are more than some employees yearly salaries.

  Hopefully someone, somewhere will uncover the true story and tell the world what’s going on.

  Comment by just wants the truth — Thursday February 12, 2009 @ 8:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• If the hospital and long-term nursing care facilities are closing, is there some plan to convert the MPTF into a sort of an upscale Sun City residential complex for healthy and wealthy seniors, I wonder? After all, the proptery is PRIME and, in close proximity to Los Angeles, on the way to Santa Barbara where many industry people have homes.

  Mary Pickford and Charlied Chaplin must be turning over in their graves!

  Are Katzenberg, Ellis, and Tillman the only spokespeople for the MPTF, I wonder?

  Apparently, The Camden Report has been kept a secret for quite some time; and, as Mr. Katzenberg has stated, “This has not been communicated well.”

  Well, be that as it may, it is my understanding there are at least two (2) excellent Actor communicators who also sit on the MPTF Board. Are these professional communicators not permitted to communicate to their consituency?

  Comment by Renee Aubry — Monday February 16, 2009 @ 1:14pm PST  Reply to this post