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struggling to find affordable healthcare, but don’t forget that Te Actors Fund is there for Screen Actors Guild members across the country with programs that provide practical solutions for many healthcare concerns. Trough counseling, Web-based resources and community healthcare clinics on both coasts, Te Actors Fund is there to ensure everyone in entertainment remains healthy and creative. Since 1998, thanks to funding from THE ACTORS FUND CARES FOR YOUR HEALTH T he recent passage of the health care reform law is good news for people health care on a state-by-state basis. Te fund also offers counseling and a national call-in service, as well as regularly scheduled health insurance workshops in New York and Los Angeles, and in cities across the country. In the coming months, AHIRC will Screen Actors Guild (Producers/Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund and Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund), the National Endowment for the Arts, Te Commonwealth Fund and Leveraging Investments in Creativity, Te Actors Fund’s Artists Health Insurance Resource Center has maintained one of the most comprehensive websites available for health insurance information, ahirc.org, which leads visitors quickly and reliably to information on insurance and affordable be on the Every Artist Insured Tour. Te AHIRC team of health insurance experts, through partnerships with local arts organizations, will reach out to performing arts and entertainment professionals across the country, with seminars and workshops to help explain how health care reform offers new and affordable options for coverage. Visit ahirc.org/everyartistinsuredtour to check for your city, or to request a seminar in your area, contact Jim Brown, Te Actors Fund’s Director of Health Services, by e-mail jbrown@actorsfund.org or phone at (917) 281-5966. In addition, the fund has developed easy-to-read guides to local health care for 18 urban areas, with more in the works, as well as “Every Artist Insured: Understanding Health Care Reform,” a concise and readable guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, otherwise known as the health care reform law. Tis guide clearly explains the most significant programs and reforms, with special emphasis on those that directly impact artists and entertainers. All guides are available at actorsfund.org. Te Actors Fund’s Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic in New York City provides access to free primary care for those who are underinsured and uninsured, as well as health screenings, flu shots, mammograms and wellness education. Te fund has also partnered with MusiCares and the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles to form Te Performing Artists’ Clinic, which provides free primary health care to artists twice a month. For more information on Te Actors Fund’s healthcare services, visit actorsfund.org. In New York or nationally, call (212) 221-7300, ext. 265. In Los Angeles, call (323) 933-9244, ext. 32. For Your Consideration In All Categories, Including BEST ACTOR – MICHAEL DOUGLAS Written by BRIAN KOPPELMAN. Directed by BRIAN KOPPELMAN and DAVID LEVIEN “One of Michael Douglas’ finest performances!” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times MARY-LOUISE PARKER FISCHER JENNA EISENBERG JESSE IMOGEN POOTS with SUSAN SARANDON and DANNY DeVITO “…brilliant acting… (Michael Douglas) is fully alive, as engaged with the complexities of actorly portraiture as he has ever been.” A.O. Scott, New York Times “Michael Douglas deserves serious award attention for his triumphant performance” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone For updated screening listings and additional information, please visit: www.anchorbayentertainment.com/awards © 2009 Solitary Man Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. solitary man academy SAG half.indd 1 SAG.org Fall/Winter 2010 - SCREEN ACTOR 29 11/1/10 7:06 PM