This March 16, 2020 photo shows film and TV composer Matt Hutchinson posing for a portrait in Los Angeles. Hutchinson says he's watched production "grinding to a halt" across Hollywood. But, for now, he's still on the job —working remotely with the help of video conference calls with filmmakers and musicians. (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.