00:00The situation in Hollywood is fraught.
00:07For quite some time, there has been calamity.
00:10There was the pandemic, which upended the whole world, and of course, a lot of people's
00:16jobs and lives were completely upended.
00:19Then right after that, we had both the writers and the actors' strikes, which was devastating.
00:24And for quite some time, people were saying the phrase, survive until 25.
00:29Well, 2025 is here.
00:31We have a massive wildfire and a citywide crisis.
00:47When the fire erupted, one of the first things the industry did was cancel certain premieres
00:51in LA, including The Last Showgirl and A Better Man.
00:55Now we're seeing the postponement of several awards nominations or award shows.
01:02And what a lot of people don't realize is that when these things happen, there's an
01:06economic impact because it is not just the stars, but it is the makeup artists, the hairdressers,
01:12the drivers, the bartenders, the caterers, the event planners.
01:16There's a whole economy around these events that winds up suffering when they get canceled
01:22or postponed.
01:27I feel sometimes very frustrated by much of the news coverage because it tends to focus
01:31on the 1%, the A-listers, the millionaires who've lost their homes.
01:35And I have compassion for them as well.
01:38But they don't often focus on the fact that that is a very tiny percentage of Los Angeles
01:44because we are a very diverse city.
01:47We have people of every economic level that have been affected by this.
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