LA’s Whine: Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?

Letter to Ephesians: Disney’s attendance isn’t the only lib toilet plunging. LA’s entertainment economy “is spiraling downward” as customers ghost it: “Work is evaporating, businesses are closing & the city’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread …"

Little wonder, then, that the WSJ now says, “LA’s entertainment economy is looking like a disaster movie.” The downward spiral is said to have begun “when the dual strikes by actors & writers ended in 2023. “This is the first year since 1989 that I haven’t had a show to work on,” said Pixie Wespiser, a 62-yr-old production manager & producer who has worked on 36 TV series, including Night Court. “I look around & I see so many people who are seriously suffering.” In a little over a year, those employed in LA’s motion picture industry dropped from 142,000 to 100,000. Concludes the paper: “The primary reason is that Hollywood is making less stuff. The film business has yet to rebound from the shutdown of theaters during the pandemic,” then, that unhappy ending of those strikes happened. Not surprisingly, it suddenly got cheaper to film in Atlanta & especially in overseas locations. Result: “Nearly 30% fewer movies & TV shows with budgets of $40 million began shooting in the US.”

But, the truth that wasn’t told in the WSJ piece is that WHATEVER Hollywood has been “creating” is pure progressive garbage that fewer & fewer people in Middle America can stomach. And don’t expect the Trump White House to bail out the disastrous LA economy led by Gov. Newsom anytime soon.

Davd Soul