From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Browdessa Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at, but prepare yourself for the breaks. Check it out.

This week on the business, criminologist Sheila Balkan and addiction specialist Bob Timmons talked frankly about keeping stars gone wild,

out of jail, and on the road to recovery.

Plus, in Hollywood, who gets paid what and why?

We'll talk money with former agent turned manager

turned producer, Gavin Pallone.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Often indicted, never convicted,

it's the business from NPR.

Last week, the New York Times unmasked the identity of a very mysterious and suddenly

very rich new author supposedly named Jordan Ainsley.

Ainsley took Hollywood by surprise last month after a five-day bidding war over his unpublished manuscript The Passage.

The manuscript ultimately sold to Fox and director Ridley Scott for $1.75 million.

Per the Times, it's, quote,

a futuristic fable about death row inmates transformed into vampires

by a government- spawned virus. Literary agent Ellen Levine said she advised the author, whose real name is

Justin Cronin, to send out the book under a pseudonym because he won the Penn Hemingway Award for

his 2001 short story collection, Marian O'Neill. She, quote, didn't want him to be

typecast as one kind of author, unquote, though it's unclear whether by that she meant he was

embarrassed about writing such schlock, or whether he feared that Hollywood wouldn't buy a vampire

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