We walked past a picket line outside Television City en route to the Oscars museum.
With homeless encampments on either side of these striking writers--an indictment of the nation's intractable crisis-- my sympathies were divided. At least you've got jobs and places to live, I thought.
Of course the unhoused mentally ill didn't help their case when one man just a few feet away began taking care of his morning wood while lying flat on the sidewalk just outside his tent. Fortunately, walking isn't a thing in LA.
Ted Sarandos must love this. "Watching is good. Eating is better." Update: What I assumed was a protest is actually a restaurant!
The WGA is just down the block on Fairfax.
With time to kill before the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened at 10 a.m. we checked out Museum Mile, including the Petersen Automotive Museum, the world's largest, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, both on Wilshire Boulevard. Plenty of homeless people sprawled there, too. So sad but you also have to wonder why City Hall hasn't taken action to address a problem you don't see on New York City's Museum Mile.
Al Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads are on view outside LACMA.
They were exhibited in Manhattan, in front of the Plaza Hotel, more than a decade ago.
I wish we'd been able to see Chris Burden's "Urban Light" at night.
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