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I think my parents have always believed in me, and once it happened, they were like, okay, but I definitely think that there were times where they probably thought, oh yeah, she's just, you know, making home videos.

Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz always had the darkest skin in her nice Jewish family, and her documentary,

Little White Lie, reveals the reason for that. Her parents allowed her to interview them about

the family secret, perhaps not anticipating that her project would attract so much attention. She tells us about

revealing her family's drama in her PBS documentary. But first on the news banter, what's going

on at the Weinstein Company? Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my buddy in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim. So two of the smaller and yet much-watched companies in Hollywood have had some interesting news this week, The Weinstein Company and Relativity. And you

start with the Weinstein Company, Mike. They have just sold off their TV business. A lot of

perception that this is a company that's having some trouble. And I will just say at the outset that

the head of the Weinstein company, Harvey Weinstein, has certainly been in some hot water.

He's got very different troubles on his hands. But first, we could talk about this deal that's

underway where British broadcaster ITV is spending as much as $950 million for Weinstein's

TV operations, which is interesting because for the most part, there hasn't been much of a TV

operation at the Weinstein company other than Project Runway, which granted is a huge reality hit, although it's been on for

quite a long time. Only more recently have we seen more projects come out of Weinsteins,

including Marco Polo, which is a series on Netflix. There's a reality show on VH1 called

Mob Wives that does quite well for them, but it's still a relatively small operation.

We've seen a lot of international companies try to buy their way into the U.S. through many means.

ITV has an operation here in the United States, but this is an opportunity to perhaps get larger and also for the Weinsteins to finally expand their TV operations. Yeah, it feels

like, you know, like the Weinsteins need money. I mean, this is almost a version. Jeffrey Katzenberg

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