From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodaser Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think 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, is that laughter coming from your TV fresh, or can?

We'll talk to Chuck Lorry,

creator of some of the most popular sitcoms in TV history.

Plus, USC students practice the art

of the pitch, and we ain't

talking baseball. But first,

it's the Hollywood News Caravan. Stick around.

It's the business from NPR.

Music business from NPR. We begin the caravan. We begin the caravan with news that Gray's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington has decided not to submit himself for best supporting actor consideration in this year's Emmy Awards.

However, the Academy has already put him up for a new category.

Apologetic bigot of the year.

But with stiff competition from the likes of Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, and Don Imus, it's anybody's ballgame.

Meanwhile, Democratic senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama continued to schmooze Hollywood big time,

wrapping up the so-called money primary with overflowing coffers.

As of last week, Clinton had coaxed just over $800,000 from Hollywood donors,

while Obama netted $661,000.

But not everyone in Tinseltown is going blue.

While former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson hasn't yet announced his candidacy, he's already being called a successor to that other character actor. Ronald Reagan.

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