From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodessa Ackner, and this is the best of the business.

So you still want to do the show business and you get that you got what it takes.

I mean you really got a rap and be all at.

But prepare yourself for the brakes. Check it out.

This week on the business, we revisit our favorite feature stories of 2008.

We'll hear the woes of a video game critic,

go to the movies with babies,

uncover Hollywood's fascination with swag,

and ask, what's it like to be a woman

in the testosterone-fueled world of the paparazzi?

Stick around.

It's the best of the business from KCRW.

Video gaming grew 43% last year to become an almost $18 billion industry. You can bet that gaming will continue to be a hot topic on this program.

Luckily, we don't actually review video games for a living,

like Variety's Ben Fritz,

who has suffered the slings and arrows of outraged gamers.

Note that the emails and blog entries in the following piece are real.

Alas, because this is radio,

we couldn't quite capture the unique spelling and grammar

in much of the correspondence.

What an absolutely horrid little t' for brains this reviewer is.

You're a failure at your job.

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