In this March 16, 2020 photo, TV editor and filmmaker Pi Ware poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. Unlike many of his colleagues, Ware is still working. Keeping specifics close to the vest, Ware said he continues to do editing, only now working from his home instead of a studio. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
March 31, 2020
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March 31, 2020 9:16 a.m.
'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.