Living in or near Tinseltown (i.e., Hollywood) does have its advantages. Sometimes one gets to hear industry scuttlebutt (possibly) before it hits the newspapers.
This morning, my long-delayed visit to the barbershop finally came to pass (I couldn't stand it anymore) this morning. While getting myself a haircut, another customer came in and was seated at the chair next to mine.
He works in some capacity in the movie industry (I think he said he's a sculptor) and said that he has to scramble around for work. Then he dropped a bombshell.
He said that the Walt Disney Company is about to lay off 300 to 500 workers!
Ouch! That's a lot of people who will be out of work. I did see a June 6 news item about Disney laying off 250 workers globally, but what I heard this morning was local.
It seems that hope & change is not exactly working out for those in an industry who are predominantly liberal and are Democrat/Obama supporters.
Instead of "spreading the wealth," they're going so see "spreading the misery."
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