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

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.

This week, What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, the fighter seems like a contender, for awards, that is,

but it sure wasn't an easy sell in today's Hollywood.

Plus, Christian Bale's performance in the fighter generates Oscar buzz,

but in a recent Q&A with Esquire magazine, he went a few rounds with his interviewer. 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? Where?

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

I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So, John, a very rare event, the Weinstein Brothers, and who but the Weinstein brothers,

appealed the NC-17 rating on their film Blue Valentine and, you know, really

brought up the big guns, very high-end lawyers and made a lot of noise. And for once at least,

we don't know how often it happens, but very rare. The MPAA actually gave them an R rating.

Yeah, without their changing the film at all.

I mean, this was a scene involving oral sex between a couple, and it raised a couple of questions,

mostly because there is a scene of oral sex in Black Swan that didn't get an NC-17 rating.

But more problematically, it would have kicked Blue Valentine essentially out of the Oscar race because it would limit its theatrical availability.

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