KCRW's The Business

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 Hosted by Claude Brodesser-Akner, The Business looks deep inside the business of entertainment. A half-hour of thoughtful and irreverent dialogue with Hollywood's top deal-makers, filmmakers, moguls, artists and agents, The Business will clue you in on who's making pop culture pop and what's keeping Hollywood's Blackberries juicy.

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  Everything You Wanted to Know about Agents
  Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:19:47 -0400
  There's been a mad game of musical chairs in the agency business in the last few of weeks. The agency business is changing, but the relationship between agents and clients seems to be as quirky as ever.
  
  
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  Celebrities Can Be Taxing
  Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:41:00 -0400
  Using Tax Day as a very weak hook, we talk to the man who helped clear Wesley Snipes of tax fraud conspiracy charges. The question: what are the special challenges of representing a celebrity in court.
  
  
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  AFTRA-SAG Split; a 'Miss Guided' Novice Writer
  Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:30:12 -0400
  Hollywood's actors' unions file for an untimely divorce. Then, what happens when a novice TV writer gets her own show.
  
  
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  Qualified to Act.; The ShoWest Goes On
  Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:55:18 -0400
  In a town where actors are more likely to wait tables than wait in the wings, how do you define a working actor. That's the central question in our lively conversation with two actors. How SAG answers that question may determine if there's a strike. Plus, this year's ShoWest movie exhibitors' conference.
  
  
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  Big Gulp to Blockbuster
  Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:48:05 -0400
  Jim Keyes was the former CEO of 7-11 stores. Now he's applying the lessons of the Big Gulp to the small screen at the troubled video-rental giant Blockbuster. Plus, Variety game reviewer Ben Fritz asks, "Why are hardcore video gamers so sensitive." And good agentry with writer and producer Rob Long.