From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

I am not going to humiliate myself in front of people by picking my nose and belching.

I'm a classically trained actor. I will not do this. I'll starve first.

And then he called me back and said, well, they offered it to you. What should I say?

And I said, okay, I'll take it.

Character actor Curtis Armstrong auditioned for the 1984 comedy, Revenge of the Nerds, hoping to play the lead.

The filmmakers saw him in the lesser role of Booger.

Armstrong told his agent, no way.

But that role became a standout in Armstrong's long career as a character actor in film and TV.

In his new memoir, Revenge of the Nerd, he reflects on the original dark ending of risky business that audiences didn't see.

And on the backstage shenanigans during the making of that movie and the hit TV series Moonlighting.

But first on the news banter, the China Syndrome.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my follow banterer, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So China, China's deal of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So China,

China's dealings with Hollywood have become incredibly fraught. And the poster child for this right now

is Wang John Lin, the head of Wanda, who was purported to be the richest man in China, riding

really high, bought Thomas Tall's legendary in a deal that a lot of people were rolling

their eyes that it seemed like a typical outsider paying dumb money for something, but everybody

said, well, maybe the Chinese are smart and they're not going to make those mistakes that so many

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