This is often a wackadoodle time of year for the state bean counters who assemble the employments stats, so the new numbers for February aren't especially surprising.

There's the celebrity-studded South Doheny location, of course, but the Four Seasons name can also be found in Beverly Hills (aka the Beverly Wilshire Hotel) and in Westlake Village (owned by billionaire David Murdock). That's more Four Seasons in one metro area than anywhere else in the world.

What is it with those guys? Can't they handle internal issues internally? Latest hoo-ha is over an NBC executive reaching out to CNN's Anderson Cooper about replacing Matt Lauer before the end of the year.

Try as they might to make the budget deficit go away, members of the L.A. City Council must start to face reality (or at least City Hall's version of reality.)

Web-based shooting is getting to be a big deal in L.A., at least a bigger deal than might be realized. It's an important counterpoint to the ceaseless chatter about the perils of runaway production.

Another mission is in the books for the Hawthorne-based company as the cone-shaped Dragon capsule hits the water about 250 miles west of Baja.

More broadly, you have to wonder how many people really care where these shows are produced. Carson did have a different vibe in NY and L.A., but only because both cities had distinctive personalities in the 60s and 70s.

Except they're apparently not having much luck. Only one-in-four are able to buy tickets to R-rated movies, according to a Federal Trade Commission survey.

This is certainly good news for a campaign that's been a little glassy-eyed of late. And yet it's hard to understand how the former president has much genuine understanding of L.A.'s problems.

The jobless rate rose slightly and 81,000 payroll jobs were lost. The entertainment industry not only saw a drop of 14,000 jobs, but the December numbers were revised sharply downward.

They're taking an irreverent, Web-friendly approach - a notable contrast from the heartwarming schtick that had been used by the previous agency.

No "Hunger Games"-type runaway train so far this year, which is why the overall box office is down 13 percent from 2012 and attendance is off 14 percent.