From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Browdessa 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, there's been a mad game of musical chairs in the agency business in the last few weeks.

The agency business may be changing, but the relationship between agents and clients seems as quirky as it ever was.

Will Schmooze about that relationship with producer Marty Adelstein.

He helped found the Endeavor Agency.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Go nowhere. It's the business from NPR.

Music Go Nowhere, it's The Business from NPR. We reported last week that the Screen Actors Guild was to consider whether certain

guild members should be excluded from voting on their upcoming new contract.

From what we can tell, they began negotiations with Hollywood's networks and studios last

Tuesday without resolving that question. In another update, on last week's program, we talked to

attorney Bob Bernhoft, who successfully defended actor Wesley Snipes against charges of tax fraud

and conspiracy. Cleared of the felony charges, it seems Snipes had not only evaded paying taxes,

but doing jail time. Or maybe not. Snipes was convicted of misdemeanor willful failure to file

tax returns. And it seems that prosecutors aren't giving up on getting him behind bars on those

lesser charges. In addition to the back taxes and a $5 million fine,

they're also seeking a three-year sentence. Elsewhere, in a surprise move, Blockbuster Video has

offered a billion dollars to buy Circuit City, the ailing electronics retailer. Blockbuster says

it wants to buy Circuit City to exploit what it calls the, quote, growing convergence of media content and electronic devices, unquote.

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