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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Alex Gibney ’s documentaries often delve into high-level corruption. He’s out this fall with two projects that focus on the Trump administration.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:06.7 | Alex Gibney is a very prolific documentarian, but this year was crazy even by his standards. |
0:13.5 | He was in the middle of making his two-part HBO series, Agents of Chaos, about Russian interference in U.S. politics, |
0:20.1 | when he dived into another film about the Trump administration's pandemic response. |
0:24.6 | And he was determined to have that one ready to go before the election. |
0:28.6 | It was insane, absolutely insane, for me to even consider it. |
0:32.6 | But, you know, I lost a friend to COVID. |
0:36.6 | Another friend of mine, you know, was on a ventilator for two weeks. |
0:40.5 | And I was just gobsmacked by the completely incompetent federal response to the pandemic. |
0:49.1 | And I just thought something needs to be done. |
0:52.6 | Gibney talks about putting together his coronavirus documentary amidst a chaotic news cycle |
0:57.3 | and how he got high-level government insiders to talk about Russian interference |
1:01.6 | for his other project, agents of chaos. |
1:04.7 | But first on the news banter, Disney reorganizes and Hollywood is confused. |
1:09.8 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:16.9 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. How are you, Matt? |
1:23.5 | Do it okay. How are you? I am okay. Wow. Disney, is Disney okay? That is my question right now. |
1:30.9 | We're seeing a lot of reorganization in Hollywood, and these are as part of layoffs, as part of pandemic, as part of accelerating above all to the streaming model. |
1:40.0 | We've talked about this a lot. |
1:41.5 | So the latest to announce something is Disney. |
1:45.5 | They announced something that I do not understand, but I am not alone. |
1:51.4 | They said that Bob Chappick, who came from the theme parks and who is now CEO, after I will |
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