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The Business

Hollywood's Strange Bedfellows; Actor Michael Sheen

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.5699 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A movie financier on the hunt for money finds an unlikely backer in Saadi Qaddafi, son of notorious Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Plus, we sit down with actor Michael Sheen

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.9

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

0:12.6

Everybody thinks his business, business, really, really, all the right life.

0:18.3

He doesn't clean.

0:19.2

What's with him?

0:23.6

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. This week on the business, a movie financier on The Hunt for Money

0:28.6

finds an unlikely backer in one Sadie Gaddafi,

0:32.6

son of notorious Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

0:36.6

Then, actor Michael Sheen takes to the small screen to play a big character,

0:42.0

former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

0:44.4

Again.

0:45.4

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

0:47.6

Stick around.

0:48.2

It's the business from KCRW.

0:52.0

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

0:57.4

What's with him?

0:58.8

I'm afraid he's going to Hollywood.

1:02.3

I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

1:06.9

Hello, John.

1:07.8

Hello, Kim.

1:09.0

So in the news this week, studios, we know we've been talking about this.

1:13.1

They're talking about shrinking the windows between the time that they release a film and when they release it on DVD.

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