By David Robb Labor Editor The Motion Picture & Television Fund is seeking matching contributions to double the $250,000 pledged by the John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation to help defray the cost of PPE and food for caregivers at its skilled nursing home in Woodland Hills, where six residents have died of COVID-19.
Several caregivers have also contracted the virus, though none has died. The donations also will go toward the general upkeep of the facility’s coronavirus care unit.
John Wells, the Emmy-winning writer-producer of ER and The West Wing, is a member of the MPTF Board of Governors and a former WGA West president. “We have to pull together to get through these difficult times and show we’re a community that cares about our
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