This combination photo shows, from left, entertainment publicist Annie Jeeves, event producer Heather Hope-Allison, TV producer and film director Leslie Thomas, TV and film music composer Matt Hutchinson, TV editor and filmmaker Pi Ware and celebrity hairstylist Steven Mason during separate portrait sessions in Los Angeles. The coronavirus has shut down much of Hollywood. And for the entertainment industry's many one-gig-at-a-time staff and freelance workers it's an economic…
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.