Is it possible?

So much water under the bridge and a pandemic (however you think it should have been handled) has basically ripped the world asunder. Will it ever be the same again?

Celebrity, or the reporting of celebrity is rapidly changing & I think it may take years and years for society to return to how it was, say in 2018

## I know 2 very high profile publicists / public relations gurus in Australia who handled locally some of the biggest names & events in show biz have now basically retired and changed their occupations.

### Mega production stdio Marvel are upping stakes in the USA & moving it's HQ holus bolus permanently to sunny Queensland where governments both Federal & Sate are offering huge subsidies to make movies.

All the benefits of Hollywood without the smog & traffic jams & suddenly the tyranny of distance becomes a benefit.

As one PR said to me recently : "it will be a very brave person who holds the first glittering red carpet event whilst people are dying weekly in their 1000s in India"

## there have been some mooted events: the Oscars of course but very very limited..no Elton John AIDs fundraiser held (it's online though,) no glittering Vanity Fair afterparty.

My NYC pal Patrick McMullan ( "if you don;t know Patrick you should go out more" : Andy Warhol) , one of the USA's top snappers of the rich & famous has almost retired to Long Island and his 30 workers put on hold. "New York is like a wasteland " he said recently.

In Sydney there was an opening of (the unappealing to me) Hamilton but as 100s are luckily being employed by the production & theatre it has been forgiven for it's rather pisspoor red carpet opening.

Worth revising this which only happened in 2018:

barristerblogger.com/2018/08/08/the-coll...disclosure-failures/

The collapse of Jonathan King’s trial raises questions about Surrey Police that go beyond disclosure failures

Last May the journalist and author Bob Woffinden died of mesothelioma. He will be remembered as a formidable campaigner against miscarriages of justice