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But prepare yourself for the brakes. Check it out.

This week on the business, Hollywood spin doctor Mike Citric pays us a house call to talk about the recent epidemic of celebrity scandal.

Plus, raising money in Hollywood for a Republican presidential candidate has never been harder.

But first, the Hollywood News Caravan.

It's the business from NPR. The Motion Picture Academy announced a rule change last week, allowing a best picture

Oscar winner to have more than three producers in, quote, rare circumstances.

The move reversed an academy rule that was intended to quash credit creep.

That is, producer credit going

to financiers, managers, and others who wouldn't know a gaffer from a best boy.

The old rule limited each nominated film to three producers who could claim statuettes.

This, of course, led to lawsuits from producers who felt they'd been denied a Best Picture

Oscar, like Bob Yari, who was the executive

producer of Crash two years ago. Also denied trophies, Brad Gray, the chairman of Paramount Pictures,

and Brad Pitt, who both lost out on Oscars for their work producing last year's Best Picture, The Departed.

Speaking of Mr. Pitt, Angelina Jolie rewrote a few rules of her own last week.

The actress, who does have an Oscar, showed up at the premiere of her new film A Mighty Heart,

wearing a crushed velvet dress.

The only problem was, it wasn't from St. John, the clothing label for which she's paid big money to Shill.

Instead, it was from a vintage clothing store on

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