From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

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Everybody takes his business, business, really, really, all white life. He doesn't clean. What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, a Hollywood producer who survived a tragic car accident tries to get back into the game 17 years later.

Plus, actor, satirist, and radio show host Harry Shearer, also known as the voice of Mr. Burns on The Simpsons,

gets serious about distributing his documentary on the flooding in New Orleans.

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

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You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him? Him. Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So, John, big changes, I guess, ish, and the Oscar campaign rules.

And I will just tee this up for you by saying the Motion Picture Academy has been trying four years to herd the cats.

All these people who want to campaign like crazy, throw lavish parties, give gifts if possible, panels, receptions, whatever they can do to bring some Oscar love to their movies and their and their talent. And the Academy has tried to tighten the rules and tweak the rules. And we have another set of rule tightening and tweaking now. I never thought they were campaigning. I thought they were just celebrating the cinematic art form. Now, the Academy, as you say, has grown incredibly

weary of all of the ends around their rules. And the latest target are the parties. These can

be big fancy parties like Sony through at Spago for social network last year.

It can be little receptions like when Ariana Huffington hosted for the King's speech.

They are clearly intended to get votes and they attract a lot of immediate attention, but the

academy has said that I guess with certain limitations, especially after the nominations

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