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

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

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid we've gone Hollywood.

Hollywood.

Among the many lessons of NBC's late-night debacle is that it's important to have a well-written contract in Hollywood.

This week on the business, we'll find out exactly what entertainment lawyers do to earn their 5%.

Plus, Nick Hornby explains why he didn't want to write the screenplays for About a Boy and High Fidelity,

two movies based on his novels.

He chose instead to write a screenplay based on someone else's story.

But first, it's the Hollywood News banter.

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You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood. I'm joined from quite a distance away, actually, by John Horn from the Los Angeles Times,

who is coming to us from Park City, Utah.

It is a Sundance Film Festival, so it is cold, it is snowy, and there's hundreds of people everywhere.

Is it really?

Not crowded?

Yes, it is.

I mean, I just drove by a theater where they're going to be showing the new James Franco movie Howl. It doesn't start for three hours. There's probably 200 people in line in the snow. So yes. Wow. It's still Sundance. That's the headline, I guess. For somebody. For the devotee. You're supposed to get quite a dump of snow, right? It's a dump of snow. I guess the question is, will it be a dump of vine as well? Or will it be like past years where a lot of movies go home in kind of the same condition they arrive in Park City, which is without a distributor?

Well, with that in mind, are there buzzy movies there must be?

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