THE recession affects us all differently:  Jayshree Gupta
reclined on an English-style sofa in her Beverly Hills penthouse
as crews buzzed around taping protective paper over the hardwood
floors and wheeling in crates of camera gear.  She was hosting a
television-commercial shoot. It meant allowing dozens of
strangers and 400-pound klieg lights into her home for a full
day, and it was worth every minute, Gupta said.  “I am doing it
because I need money to maintain my lifestyle,” she said,
perched near a portrait of herself painted by her friend Barbara
Carrera, the Bond girl in 1983’s “Never Say Never Again.” “A lot
of my money is either gone or tied up. Right now I am hurting.”
Apparently, one can get up to $2,000-$3,000 a day for the use of
one's home as a set, remarkable considering that just 60 or so
miles east there are thousands of empty homes that directors
could probably use for free. Oddly enough, it seems that income
from residential filming is exempt from federal taxes if it's
done fewer than 15