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The Business

Justine Bateman on her new book, ‘Fame: The Hijacking of Reality'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What’s it like to be suddenly famous at 16? Justine Bateman found out when she was cast as Mallory in the hit NBC sitcom ‘Family Ties.’ More than 30 years later, she has a lot to say about fame--so much, in fact, that she’s written a book on the subject. 'Fame' explores having it, losing it, and the country's undying obsession with it.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:05.0

I did Google myself, and the autocomplete came up.

0:07.8

Justine Bateman looks old, and I made a move that was a big mistake.

0:11.8

Instead of me going, I don't know what they're talking about, they're crazy.

0:15.7

I looked at it and went, well, if they're saying it, then it must be true.

0:20.6

For Justine Bateman, fame came fast back in 1982 when she was cast at age 16 in the hit NBC sitcom Family Ties.

0:29.5

30 years later, Bateman was long done with acting, but the Internet still had some thoughts about her.

0:35.5

In her book, Fame, The Hijacking of Reality,

0:38.6

Baitman doesn't hold back about the ups and downs of sudden fame

0:41.8

and the gradual loss of fame.

0:44.3

She tells us why she felt compelled to write this book now

0:47.2

and about going to UCLA in her 40s to get a degree in computer science.

0:52.4

But first on the news banter, streaming wars.

0:55.4

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

1:03.0

I am joined by my buddy in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter.

1:06.8

Hello, Matt.

1:07.6

Hello.

1:08.4

So I'm going to do a quick lightning round of some news, just because it's been kind of a newsy week,

1:12.6

and then we'll talk in depth about some other stuff.

1:14.6

I'm going to just mention that James Gunn, having been dumped by Disney after creating the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise for them,

1:21.6

is doing Suicide Squad, a sequel, starting from scratch for Warner Brothers.

1:25.6

I would call that a big break for Warner

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