It wasn’t the moguls or reigning superstars who showed up at a hastily-organized fundraiser for the beleaguered Motion Picture and Television Fund Home.
Those guys seem to have run for the hills.
Instead it was a modest gathering of actors including Renee Taylor and Shirley Jones, Elliott Gould and Alan Rosenberg, who joined forces to raise money for the remaining residents at the soon-to-be-shuttered hospital and long-term care facility.
“It’s shameful that we’re here to bail out the hospital that serves this prosperous industry," said Marty Ingels, Jones’s husband (both pictured). "Where are the Steven Spielbergs and Angelina Jolies?”
Where indeed?
There’s an old Stanislavski acting exercise that instructs students to stand in a corner and not think about a white bear.