It seems that the entire motion picture and television industry is hanging onto every development concerning the fate of the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF) elderly and infirm residents. Our advocates have advanced our cause to the pages of this esteemed website, and in other traditional and digital media worldwide.

There was a song, I think in the ‘80s, called “Farm on a Freeway,” by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. It was a bittersweet rocker, the lament of a poor American farmer who allowed his family's heritage to be bulldozed over to make way for a ribbon of concrete.

"They say they gave me compensation …
That's not what I'm chasing. I was a rich man before yesterday.
Now all I have left is a broken-down pickup truck.
Looks like my farm is a freeway."

Had they been able to stand, Mary Stellar and Rosemary Quinn would have been more active and able to properly protest the planned closing of the Motion Picture Home's Long Term Care Facility at Tuesday's poorly attended Board Meeting at the luxurious Saban Center.

As it was, the ladies were enjoying the beautiful weather with their two sons Daniel and myself as we sat in the shade of the Saban Center entryway -- as a visual reminder to the 31 or so board members whose apathy didn't keep them from the luncheon meeting.