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The Business

Composer Alexandre Desplat; IMDB Founder, Col Needham

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Composer Alexandre Desplat on doing the lonely job that he loves. Plus, the founder of IMDB.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.5

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

0:11.2

Everybody takes his own business, really, really, all white life.

0:17.0

He doesn't clean.

0:18.5

What's with him?

0:19.6

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

0:23.8

This week on the business,

0:25.5

What do Argo, Zero Dark 30, Moonrise Kingdom,

0:28.5

and the Rise of the Guardians have in common?

0:30.7

All feature scores by one hardworking composer,

0:33.8

Alexandre Desplat, plus the founder of IMDB,

0:37.4

the Internet Movie Datab database on his influential

0:39.6

and sometimes controversial website. But first, it's the Hollywood News banter. Stick around,

0:44.8

it's the business from KCRW.

0:48.4

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

0:53.6

What's with him? I am joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John.

0:59.7

Hello, Kim. So, John, awards season is underway. The Screen Actors Guild is out with their nominations.

1:06.7

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association out with the Golden Globe nominations. And I think,

1:11.8

I think, you know, there are some oddballs as always and some complaints as always. But on the

1:17.0

other hand, I feel like the slate of likely contenders in the Oscars is certainly starting to

1:21.9

emerge. Now, by odd balls, do you mean the voters of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association or

1:25.8

some of their pick? Let's start with the Screen Actors Guild. Screen Actors Guild, I think, much more legitimate than the Golden Globe voters.

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