From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodeser 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.

And prepare yourself for the brakes, check it out.

This week on the business, a fascinating new report called, do movies make money?

Prescribe strong medicine the studios will have a tough time swallowing.

Plus, the Westmores have been Hollywood's first family of makeup since there was a Hollywood.

Will the next generation go into the family business?

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

On the sixth day of Hanukkah my true love gave to me.

The business from NPR.

In a stunning about phase, Hollywood's writers and studios started to talk to each other with something like, respect, with both sides hinting that a framework

for a deal might be in the offing. And then, cablooey. In a statement issued Friday evening after

walking out of talks, the producers said that the WGA's, quote, quixotic pursuit of radical

demands led them to begin this strike and has now caused this breakdown in negotiations. We hope that the

WGA will come back to this table with a rational plan that can lead us to a fair and equitable

resolution to a strike that is causing so much distress for so many people in our industry and community.

In other words, you filthy writers will do what we want, when we want it, or you can go to hell.

The strikes already caused many TV shows to go into reruns or to disappear completely, and many production deals to be 86th.

Now it looks like the TV pilot season will be eviscerated.

Be prepared for a spring full of reality TV and a new fall season full of more reality TV.

Unreal.

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