ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN A FORMERLY GLAMOROUS BUSINESS

The Great Recession was hut the latest blow to an industry that had already been humbled by format wars, new content platforms, corporate re-structurings, reality programming, and the fact that the Transformers robots are now more bankable stars than Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Life in the entertainment business, and in L.A. in general, isn’t what it used to be. BRUCE FEIRSTEIN shows how much things have changed in just 10 years

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