http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/us/california-today-brangelina-divorce.html 2016-09-21 15:25:09 California Today: Extra! Extra! How the Gossip Machine Chased the ‘Brangelina’ Split Wednesday: Celebrity news feasts on the “Brangelina” breakup, “stem cell tourism” in San Diego, and Oracle’s annual seizing of downtown San Francisco. === Good morning. Welcome to California Today, a Tell us about the Want to receive California Today by email? Let’s turn it over to You could hear a collective gasp in Hollywood on Tuesday morning, as the show business capital There was an end-of-an-era feeling to it: As a couple, Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt were perhaps most important to Hollywood as a marketing tool, “proof that old-school movie star glamour and storybook romance had not yet faded away entirely,” said Janice Min, chief creative officer of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group. And then most of moviedom went normally about its day. Contrary to the East Coast stereotype, Hollywood is not a place where people lounge around under palm trees. There are meetings to attend, numbers to crunch, emails to answer. Just like in the rest of America. Divorce fallout speculation was largely confined to the machinery that pumped out that imagery of Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt as razzle-dazzle epitomized: “Extra,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “People” magazine and other celebrity news outlets. Lisa Gregorisch, the senior executive producer for “Extra,” said that her team in Burbank was finishing a regularly scheduled 6:30 a.m. meeting when the news started to break. “We turned on a dime, with literally every single person here, 140 people, working an angle,” she said. “What went wrong. Their past loves. The kids. The custody. Angelina’s health. The social media response.” There are also the questions of their precise worth — hundreds of millions, at least — and whether a prenuptial agreement governs the dividing of assets. Ms. Gregorisch had been planning an Emmy Award follow-up for her Tuesday night show. Not anymore. “Extra” devoted near-blanket coverage to the divorce. The main challenge, she said, was “walking a fine line in terms of respect for them in a painful time and the interests of our viewers.” On the print side, Jess Cagle, editor in chief of People magazine, was scrambling on Tuesday to figure out how to race out a new cover. (The publication typically closes its weekly issue on Monday nights.) For People, which has landed numerous “Brangelina” scoops over the years, the divorce story “is absolutely one of the biggest” of the past couple of years, Mr. Cagle said in an email. “On a 1-to-10 scale,” he said, “this is approximately 17.” • Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts assailed the chief executive of • • The plight of a tiny • • San Diego has become a destination for “ • • Los Angeles police officers • • • California accounts for • Sacramento’s “ • Check out this image of • When San Francisco hit fall overflow this week with the unofficial start of the tech company conference season. The companies that sell ideas about virtual life, cloud computing and telecommuting bring in thousands of customers each year for valuable face-to-face meetings. Over the weekend, Oracle Corporation shut off several blocks of downtown as part of its 60,000-visitor While traffic backs up and reroutes, the closed-off area called Oracle Cloud Plaza served organic food (and, throughout the five-day event, an estimated three million cups of coffee). It’s a huge boon to the hotel business: On Monday, a Hampton Inn in the Soma neighborhood had a couple of rooms left for Tuesday night at $479 a night. Those prices will come back down to $179 when conference season ends in late October. That is after the The Opal, a 2.5-star hotel on Orbitz, has two rooms left at $570 a night. — California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays. Tell us what you want to see: The California Today columnist, Mike McPhate, is a third-generation Californian — born outside Sacramento and raised in San Juan Capistrano. He lives in Davis. California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and attended U.C. Berkeley.