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Rambling Reporter

The Report


“It’s a cross


between a
staycation and

a Saw mov ie.”
SETH MEYERS
The Late Night host, during his
first telecast from home, describing the
experience of sheltering in place.

“We’ve never
called the virus
a hoax.”
SEAN HANNITY
The Fox News host, in his
March 18 telecast, nine days
after he called media
coverage of the coronavirus
a weapon to “bludgeon
Trump with this new hoax.”

“We don’t have
a penny of
revenue coming
in the door.”
ADAM ARON
The AMC Entertainment
Holdings CEO, on CNN,
revealing that the theater
company needs loans
to survive after closing
all locations.

“Live ... from my
basement ... this
is Today.”
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE
The NBC anchor, on
Instagram, showing that her
pajama-clad husband,
Mike Feldman, was working
as her producer while she
taped from home.

“We’re looking
at this as a
time of war.”
RANDALL STEPHENSON
The AT&T CEO, speaking
on CNN, comparing the
coronavirus to World War II
and calling on
corporations to “help the
general population.”

“Remember, despite all the current events,
there is no crying in baseball.”
TOM HANKS
The actor, on Twitter, channeling his character from A League of Their Own
to describe his feelings about being quarantined in Australia with wife Rita Wilson
after both tested positive for COVID-19. “We are taking it one-day-at-a-time.”

(starring Annette O’Toole, Margo
Martindale, June Squibb, Sophie
Lowe and Morgan Saylor) but
instead has moved the venue to a
more intimate space — attendees’
living rooms. In lieu of a public
gathering, the studio is sending
dinner for two (menu by Annie
Campbell Catering, linens by
Heather Taylor Home, dessert
from Valerie Confections) to the
cast and crew and other industry
folk so they can party on as they
stream the Prime film during
a delayed March 27 home event
(the film began streaming March
20). A source at Amazon tells
THR that all the vendors hired for
the original live premiere were
retained for the home version, so
nobody lost any income because
of the coronavirus.

Norman Lloyd, Surviving
His Second Global Epidemic
THR checked in with probably
the one person in Hollywood who
was alive during the last great
global epidemic — the Spanish
flu — to see how 105-year-old
Norman Lloyd is holding up.
“Like everyone else, I’m captive in
my own house,” the star of Alfred
Hitchcock’s Saboteur (and NBC’s
St. Elsewhere) said over the phone.
“But there’s nothing I need at the
moment.” Lloyd, who was 4 years
old (and in New Jersey) when the
1918 pandemic hit, now lives in
Beverly Hills with a full-time
caretaker. — SCOTT FEINBERG

COMPILED BY MICHAEL O’CONNELL

The Actors Fund
Financial assistance for basic living expenses
for out-of-work actors over the next two months.
actorsfund.org
Entertainment Industry Foundation
Its Music for Relief disaster response program
is providing money to industry workers in need.
musicforrelief.org
SAG-AFTRA Foundation and Motion Picture
Players Welfare Fund
The two organizations have partnered to create
a COVID-19 Disaster Fund, helping members
cover rent, mortgages, utilities and other basic
expenses. sagaftrafoundation.org
Producers Guild Fund
Launched with a $100,000 gift from former PGA
president Mark Gordon, distributions (adminis-
tered through the Actors Fund) go to out-of-work
members to help with basic living expenses over
the next two months. actorsfund.org

Four Resources
to Get (or Give) Help

What Hollywood Is Saying Now


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