Posted on 01/12/2025 4:51:13 AM PST by hardspunned
The wildfires that have devastated huge swaths of Southern California have also disrupted the industry that makes the region famous: Hollywood. Many well-known performers have reported that the wind-whipped flames destroyed their homes. And just as the annual Hollywood awards season kicked off, the fires prompted red carpet event cancellations, delays in much-anticipated nominations announcements, and temporary halts to film production in the area.
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Its all about me..............
You get these media reports about the poor inconvenienced movie stars but hardly a word about the regular work a day people who have lost everything.
Let us walk in the path of Christ.
“Lost everything”
And if they worked in the fire area, even their workplace and jobs.
Right...working people with nothing like the celebrities’ ability to rebuild, recover or move away
So called ‘celebrities’ can hop on a plane and return when the dust settles
The Progressive Left has lost touch with reality and part of the Left losing touch with reality is a loss of empathy and a lack of concern for the welfare of others who you feel don't matter and an unlimited concern for the people who matter in our world.
NPR is going full Pol Pot.
According to Maxine Waters, if the rich had just agreed to pay their fair share of taxes, there would have been plenty of equipment and water. Other people’s money could have stopped the devastation. Amazing.
BETCHA TRUMP SHUTS DOWN NPR & PBS
Or, if the people they paid would have done their jobs.
California’s perdition continues. Won’t it be something to see the “stars” stumbling down the red carpets through burning embers, flames and smoke. Will they wear gas masks and firefighter gear? The show must go on!
Will they ever escape their mental illness long enough to see that their liberalism, wokeism and arrogant (yet insane) disregard for reality will continue to plague them? We’ll see.
On day one, one can only hope.
And I used to love NPR growing up.
Pretty astonishing, which is saying something...given that we already know how infantile, petty, and self-centered they are.
The fact that, already knowing this about them, they can do something that makes you open your eyes even a little wider, is telling.
People make obscene amounts of money to protect LA and the area gets zero protections. No stinking water to put out a fire, half the fire vehicles won’t run, the crews are understaffed and the whole area is let down by sub-morons that do not care about their public and their properties and are too disconnected from reality to be ashamed of themselves. The lights are not on because all the houses burned down so NOBODY’S HOME.
Stopped reading at NPR
Sheesh.
Who cares? Yeah, but ... if a disaster hit whatever city was hosting the National Widget Manufacturers annual confab, the widget industry wouldn’t fall on its sword. It would hustle up an alternative site, and maybe cycle back to the hard-hit original pick in a few years as a sign of sympathy.
The film industry has been diversifying away from Hollywood and California for years. The LA area still has the largest concentration of industry people because of the legacy infrastructure, but there’s no reason the Academy Awards, just to pick one example, couldn’t be held elsewhere. And there’s absolutely no reason to delay nominations.
The numbers get sliced and diced a lot of different ways, but the great majority of feature films are no longer shot in California — and while the big budget flicks usually have a big studio nameplate attached, most of the big legacy studios are now owned by the streamers, which are dominated by Big Tech.
Why should Comcast, Apple, Amazon, etc. pretend that there’s still a California connection to their movies? At this point, it’s practically disinformation; they don’t want the public to understand who really runs the industry. As a marketing device, I do think it’s reasonable for the Academy to maintain a U.S. nexus, as the various foreign countries with developed film industries have their own celebrations and awards, but maybe it’s time to cut the Hollywood cord and move the big movie awards around the country.
Start with New York, Nashville, or Atlanta, given their hub status. But thinking ahead, how about staging the Oscars in a suitable location — probably but perhaps not always a major city — as close as possible to wherever last year’s Best Picture was shot. Or set, which isn’t always the same place. If last year’s Best Picture was shot in Ireland or Hungary or wherever, cross that bridge when you come to it. Hold the Oscars show in the international transit lounge at O’Hare or Kennedy; they would at least have duty free booze, and every penny counts.
Many industries have annual events that include recognition of various people for leadership, service, innovation, technical excellence, etc. Virtually none of these interest the general public at all, but they serve various useful purposes for the companies and people in the field. These kinds of events can be held in the back room of the local IHOP.
The film industry could do the same for the myriad craft awards. The topline awards, however, are all about marketing. That’s a worthy purposes — or was, when the business was about getting people to buy tickets. Now it’s mostly about generating generic content for streamers, and the IHOP looks more and more appropriate all the time. But still, if the film industry wants to continue trying to generate marketing hype, it might be a genius move to get the big show out of America’s most despised city — well, LA would be on the top five list, anyhow — and put it in real America. It would be a big deal if the Oscars came to Nashville or Omaha or Bangor, Maine. I might watch that.
On a related note: sure, cancel any LA premiers and red carpet events for the time being — but there’s no rule that movies premier in LA. A lot don’t. Very often, they premier in whatever city they were shot, or set. Or they premier at a film festival, and the bigger the movie, the likelier it will be to premier at one of the half a dozen top festivals, including the big foreign ones. If the movie is getting a theatrical release and a big PR campaign, New York and LA will be routine red carpet stops for the convenience of the trade press, but there’s no reason for the trade press to wag the dog.
The thing is, the industry should carry on. Stiff upper lip. Stay on schedule. Sure, everyone is sympathetic with the people in LA who are getting burned out. But that doesn’t really have anything to do with going to the movies.
Boo hoo!
If Hollywood burned down, it would no affect me in the least.
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