Amanda Mackey, the casting director behind such films as Best Picture Oscar nominee The Fugitive and A League of Their Own and who earned an Emmy nom for The Normal Heart during a nearly four-decade career, has died. She was 70.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amanda-mackay-dies-casting-director-180233025.html

Her longtime friend and business partner Cathy Sandrich Gelfond told Deadline that Mackey died August 27 in her sleep of myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of blood cancer, at Calvary Hospital in Brooklyn.

In <c806efeb-e56c-4dce-8b6c-ec2a23ab4127n@googlegroups.com> Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

>Amanda Mackey, the casting director behind such films as Best Picture
>Oscar nominee The Fugitive and A League of Their Own and who earned an
>Emmy nom for The Normal Heart during a nearly four-decade career, has
>died. She was 70.

>https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amanda-mackay-dies-casting-director-180233025.html

>Her longtime friend and business partner Cathy Sandrich Gelfond told
>Deadline that Mackey died August 27 in her sleep of myelodysplastic
>syndrome, a form of blood cancer, at Calvary Hospital in Brooklyn.

sidenote: Calvary Hospital (originally in the Bronx) was/is pretty
much the leader in establishing end of life "hospice" care. So
yeah, there's that...

--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

On 8/31/2022 5:54 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> In <c806efeb-e56c-4dce-8b6c-ec2a23ab4127n@googlegroups.com> Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Amanda Mackey, the casting director behind such films as Best Picture
>> Oscar nominee The Fugitive and A League of Their Own and who earned an
>> Emmy nom for The Normal Heart during a nearly four-decade career, has
>> died. She was 70.
>
>> https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amanda-mackay-dies-casting-director-180233025.html
>
>> Her longtime friend and business partner Cathy Sandrich Gelfond told
>> Deadline that Mackey died August 27 in her sleep of myelodysplastic
>> syndrome, a form of blood cancer, at Calvary Hospital in Brooklyn.
>
> sidenote: Calvary Hospital (originally in the Bronx) was/is pretty
> much the leader in establishing end of life "hospice" care. So
> yeah, there's that...

Calvary is still headquartered in the Bronx;
the Brooklyn hospital is one of their four
campuses, the others being in Bayside (Queens)
and Manhattan. Five years ago tomorrow my
mother died in the Manhattan one, which
ironically is named for the wife of one of
my father's late law firm partners.

In <pvOcnXD9z62beZL-nZ2dnZfqnPrNnZ2d@earthlink.com> David Samuel Barr <dsbarr@mindspring.com> writes:

[snip]
>> sidenote: Calvary Hospital (originally in the Bronx) was/is pretty
>> much the leader in establishing end of life "hospice" care. So
>> yeah, there's that...

>Calvary is still headquartered in the Bronx;
>the Brooklyn hospital is one of their four
>campuses, the others being in Bayside (Queens)
>and Manhattan. Five years ago tomorrow my
>mother died in the Manhattan one, which
>ironically is named for the wife of one of
>my father's late law firm partners.

First, of course, all of our sympathies.

Second is yeah, I should have added the
word "originally *just* in the Bronx"...

Calvary also offers offsite, so to speak, services.

A super serious tip of the hat to everyone who
works in hospice environments.

--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

On 8/31/2022 8:10 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> In <pvOcnXD9z62beZL-nZ2dnZfqnPrNnZ2d@earthlink.com> David Samuel Barr <dsbarr@mindspring.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>>> sidenote: Calvary Hospital (originally in the Bronx) was/is pretty
>>> much the leader in establishing end of life "hospice" care. So
>>> yeah, there's that...
>
>> Calvary is still headquartered in the Bronx;
>> the Brooklyn hospital is one of their four
>> campuses, the others being in Bayside (Queens)
>> and Manhattan. Five years ago tomorrow my
>> mother died in the Manhattan one, which
>> ironically is named for the wife of one of
>> my father's late law firm partners.
>
> First, of course, all of our sympathies.

Thanks, Danny.

> Second is yeah, I should have added the
> word "originally *just* in the Bronx"...
>
> Calvary also offers offsite, so to speak, services.
>
> A super serious tip of the hat to everyone who
> works in hospice environments.

Mommy didn't go into the actual hospice
facility until her last few days; for most
of her five-month cancer bout (after Memorial
Sloan Kettering quickly wrote her off and sent
her home to die) she wasn't at Calvary but in
my folks' pied-a-terre apartment on West End
Avenue with 24/7 aides. During that time,
though, Calvary sent a visiting nurse several
days a week who could best be described as an
angel from Heaven.