EDITORIAL
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...To promote staycations, Los Angeles Tourism has launched the "LA Love" campaign, which offers more than 100 deals, including food and beverage credits at hotels and discounts on rooms. In downtown Los Angeles, the Freehand Los Angeles has launched "Stay Longer Save More," offering rates 30 percent lower overall per night for stays of seven nights or more. The minimalist 60-room Cara Hotel in Los Feliz opened in early October with an open-air floor plan well suited to pandemic hospitality. "We were fortunate to have been able to have COVID standards in place from the get-go," says the hotel's Patrick McCarthy. "Each room has its own personal air-conditioning system." ...
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
Everett Downing, the animator behind the Oscar-winning viral short Hair Love, has landed his own Netflix series. Downing and Patrick Harpin (Hotel Transylvania 2) will team to create action-comedy series My Dad The Bounty Hunter, with Dwarf Animation Studio producing the CGI animation. My Dad The Bounty Hunter follows two children as they discover that their father is the toughest bounty hunter in all the galaxy when they accidentally hitch a ride into space. It stars Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give), Yvonne Orji (Insecure), Priah Ferguson (Stranger Things), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), JeCobi Swain (Troop Zero), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Rob Riggle (The Hangover) and Jim Rash (Community)...