The 2021 Showbiz State of the Union

A Doom of One's Own; Woe The Man Down; To Gloom It May Concern

Citizens of showbiz, amigos of entertainment, friends in flimflammery, I stand before you tonight to report that the state of our union is . . . very messed up.

We are beset by two twin perils, working arm in arm to drive this industry if not over the cliff, then straight into the middle of a desolate swamp from which we may never emerge.

Here is the two-…