Hello and Oscar goes to and I can't deny the facts that you like me right now you like me

I'm the King of the world there's a mistake moon, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich to the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our chief critic

Richard Lawson.

Hello and our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

Hi Katie.

Our digital director Mike Hogan is on vacation this week.

And hopefully we'll be coming back to New York soon because our schedule for this week kind of got scuttled because our plan was to do a preview of South by Southwest, which is the annual

festival in Austin, Texas that Joanna was going to cover for us.

Joanna, you emailed kind of early last week saying listen I know it might be

overreacting but I think I'm going to cancel my trip like it doesn't feel safe in

this time of coronavirus and then I kind of thought you know what it seems like

responsible but maybe overreacting and then a couple

days later the whole festival was cancelled so good for you for being ahead of the

curve I guess yeah I think everyone thought I was overreacting which I'm fine

with that's fine even some of the South Buy organizers were like we think

you're ever reacting. I was like yeah it's it's okay. You're like just you wait. No no no

Friday. No because I'm heartbroken for them honestly this was a decision that the Austin

government made for them I don't think South Bay would ever have canceled I don't

know about ever, but despite all the things that were happening,

they really wanted to keep the show going, and that's evidence from their various statements

that they've made since the news that this was

this is like firmly against their will. Today it was announced that they had to lay off a third of their

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