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This March 16, 2020 photo shows event producer Heather Hope-Allison posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. Earlier this month, Hope-Allison and her husband, Steve were putting together the schedule for the ninth season of Street Food Cinema, a six-month series of events in the Los Angeles area featuring film indoor and outdoor screenings, food trucks and musical acts. But when Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a citywide "Safer At Home" order, shutting down all nonessential businesses due to the coronavirus, it became unclear whether she would be hosting any kind of season at all. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

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'It is brutal': Hollywood's rank-and-file on the pandemic
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.