This March 16, 2020 file photo shows entertainment publicist Annie Jeeves posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. Jeeves says she would have been bouncing from city to city, with film festivals, launching different films and preparing for the Cannes Film Festival. "Corona(virus) derailed me," Jeeves said. The uncertainty is devastating for independent contractors and freelancers who depend on steady income to survive. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
March 31, 2020
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'It is brutal': Hollywood's rank-and-file on the pandemic
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The red carpets are rolled up in storage, the A-listers holed up in mansions, multiplex doors are closed. For now, at least, the coronavirus has shut down much of Hollywood. And for the entertainment industry's many one-gig-at-a-time staff and freelance workers — a quarter-million people in Los Angeles County alone — it's an economic disaster.