From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Bratester 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, using Tax Day as our nominal hook, we talked to the man who helped clear Wesley Snipes of tax fraud and conspiracy

charges. Are real focus? What are the special challenges of representing a celebrity in court?

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan. Go nowhere, it's the business from NPR.

At the time of this taping, there were no new developments in the ongoing internecine strife between the actors' union SAG and AFRA.

Each was standing by the decision to go it alone in negotiations with the studios on a

contract that expires on June 30th.

SAG also reportedly was to vote this past weekend on whether members not, quote-unquote, affected

by the new contract, that is, actors who don't work, will be able to vote on the new deal.

More about their codependent, dysfunctional relationship on next week's show.

A quick update on the recent flurry of agency defections.

Nick Stevens of UTA went to Endeavor with Lisa Hallerman and Sharon

Scheinwald. UTA's Jonathan Swaden went to CAA and CAA's Michael Camacho went to UTA.

Please update your Fantasy Agent League rosters now.

Elsewhere, the digital revolution may not be televised, but it may be telephoned.

Last week, phone company Verizon fired the first shot in a battle over video supremacy with Time Warner Cable. Yes, I know it's a phone

company, and yes, I did say video. Verizon filed a federal false advertising case against the company

in New York last week. Verizon, with its fancy schmancy new fiber optic video service

Fios, offers video that's 25 times faster than the average U.S. broadband connection.

In its suit, Verizon claims that TV ads for Time Warner Cable falsely imply that the Fios service

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