LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is down in the dumps. “TV won.”But there is at least one place where Hollywood feels undiminished. Outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, which houses the Polo Lounge, change is washing through moviedom with terrifying speed. (Hollywood’s prize system, long a crucial promotional platform, is crumbling, with the near-abandonment of the Golden Globes on Sunday as only one example.) Inside the clubby Polo Lounge, however, very little has changed in decades.

Source: New York Times January 04, 2022 15:54 UTC