The line between what is true and what is a lie is often blurred. What used to be the truth is now couched in terms like "plausible deniability," or "white lies and half truths," or "political spin."

Sometimes a lie is soft and expected, especially when fishing for compliments. Other times, a lie can be as jarring and cold as picking up the phone and finding a Sarah Palin robo-call at the other end of the line.

There are lies, and there are damned lies.

At the end of the day, however, a lie is what it is: a lie.

We who are fighting against the closure of the Motion Picture & Television Fund's long-term care center have been dealing with lies, half-truths and spin for a long time. We knew it -- we just wanted you to know it.

Our conjecture -- that the reasons for closing the much beloved MPTF Home hospital...

Dear supporters:

I watched a movie last night that affected me deeply: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."

It's a story told through a young boy's eyes (the son of the commanding officer of a concentration camp) about the Holocaust, and in particular a relationship between the boy and another his age who is separated by barbed wire.

It shows the family dynamic unravel as the boy's father tries to hide the true nature of "the farm" from his family. Their discovery of what goes on there works to tear the family apart as the realization that the father, who in any other situation would be a great man, has turned away from sanity in order to serve the Third Reich.

We had an occurrence at the Motion Picture Home on Thursday  that should send a shiver down your spine, and send a warning on how bad the situation at the Motion...

I was involved in a presentation to the Animation Guild Local 839 last Thursday night. Having been invited after its board steadfastly refused to endorse our efforts to stop the Long Term Care closure, I felt the warm breezes of acceptance and understanding from Guild president Kevin Koch. He graciously extended the invitation to both us and the MPTF scoundrels after many a shared e-mail and phone conversation.

We were to go on after Ken Scherer laid out the MPTF board's position. Ken is usually a great opening act for us. However, this time we were open to the Guild's idea of sharing the dais with the affable Mr. Scherer, but that was not to be.

The MPTF board once viewed us as merely a pimple on the backside of their plans to change the face of motion picture and television health care. The ground we have gained in inciting the industry against their nefarious plans...

Another public relations attempt by the MPTF looks like it is crashing and burning at this very moment.

Hawk Kock, the dapper yet grizzled self-appointed spokesperson for the fund, has taken to YouTube to broadcast yet more of its message of doom.

This 'tour de farce' that is making the rounds of the various unions and guilds now comes to you over your own computer.

As of this writing -- check this out quickly, as it will probably be pulled once Jeff Katzenberg gets wind of it -- Hawk is being publicly lambasted by viewers, as his ratings have soared to just 1 star.

Can Hawk's explanation of the MPTF Board of Director's stance on the long-term care facility's closing be the "Mall Cop" of YouTube? Has...