The authors are on strike, the first shows have been cancelled. The latest strike has cost the Los Angeles film industry more than $2 billion, and now things could get worse.
Of course, a story about this writers’ strike in Hollywood must begin on the street corner where the stars walk the red carpet at the Oscars and on the walk of fame Marilyn Monroe’s star is embedded in the sidewalk at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. Tourists like to come here in the hope of catching a little glamour, although most of the time they only see the wax figures of the stars in the cabinet right here on the corner.