In hard times, entertainment either grinds it out with the rest of us, or it waltzes. During the Depression in the ’30s, there were stories about the plight of the nation’s unemployed, like John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” alongside the extravagant…

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In hard times, arts provide escapism and realism