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

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

Everybody thinks your business, really, really, all right life.

He doesn't clean.

What's in him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood, Hollywood. This week, what's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, selling Hollywood on the Hill with the MPA's Dan Glickman.

The studio's lobbyist in chief just wrapped his second Business of Show Business Symposium for lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

Plus, could weak box office for big-budget studio films for adults mean good news for cheaper,

maybe better, indie fair?

We talked to the producer of milk, the visitor, and sideways.

But first, the Hollywood news banter and the agency marriage from hell.

It's the business from KCRW.

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

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

I'm joined in the studio by the business producer, Matt Halsman.

Well, last Monday, it was finally made official that the 11-year-old William Morris Agency

and the 14-year-old Upstart Agency Endeavor will join to become William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.

That's WME for short.

And WME and CAA will become the two dominant agencies, and ICM and UTA will round

out the big four. The big question, of course, is what does this mean about what's happening

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