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This March 16, 2020 photo shows TV producer and film director Leslie Thomas posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. On March 14, Thomas was one step closer to the Hollywood dream. Tickets were sold out for the 250-seat theater set to screen her indie comedy "Honesty Weekend" at the Pasadena Film Festival. Thomas said only 30 to 35 people showed up because they were terrified of the coronavirus. A day later, the Los Angeles mayor ordered cinemas closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

This March 16, 2020 photo shows TV producer and film director Leslie Thomas posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. On March 14, Thomas was one step closer to the Hollywood dream. Tickets were sold out for the 250-seat theater set to screen her indie comedy "Honesty Weekend" at the Pasadena Film Festival. Thomas said only 30 to 35 people showed up because they were terrified of the coronavirus. A day later, the Los Angeles mayor ordered cinemas closed in response to…

March 31, 2020

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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.