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

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

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

He doesn't clean.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, Joan Rivers is the subject of a new documentary.

We talk with the comedy icon about swimming with Hollywood sharks, coming back from the brink of oblivion, and yes, even the plastic surgery.

But first, it's the Hollywood News banter.

Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.

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 in the studio by my fellow banterer John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So John, June gloom, more than just a weather description.

This is the time of the year when the movie studios are usually enjoying the riches of their summer movie slate, the bunny's

rolling in, everything looks good, and yet it's quite the opposite right now. We've had a string

of underachieving movies last weekend. It was killers and get them to the Greek and Marmaduke

and there are a lot of big movies on the horizon. We have yet to know exactly how A-Team and Karate Kid will play out. But

I think what I'm hearing, I suspect what you're hearing, is nobody knows what's going wrong.

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