Next TV used to coach youth baseball in a league adjacent to Los Angeles’ affluent Hancock Park neighborhood.
Those blissful days of escape on the ball field followed several traumatic layoffs in the print news business, and we tended to enviously lump the writer, actor and producer parents we dealt with into one monolithic ball bucket — rich Hollywood folks, far better off than we were, who weren’t being so much disrupted by the internet but rather flourishing amidst it, the rise of new suppliers like Netflix and Amazon adding to their seemingly endless prosperity.
