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The Business

Mega banter year in review: 2017 edition

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's time for that annual tradition--the year-end mega-banter! Kim Masters, Matthew Belloni and Michael Schneider take stock of the year that was in Hollywood.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:05.0

The fall of Harvey Weinstein and everything that came after.

0:09.2

The mouse gobbling up the fox as streaming TV gets bigger than ever.

0:13.6

It's a mega news banter year in review this week on the business.

0:22.2

I am here in studio with Michael Schneider of Indie Wire, and Matt Bellany of the Hollywood

0:27.5

reporter is nobly or foolishly interrupting his vacation in Hawaii to join us.

0:33.4

Hi, guys.

0:34.0

Aloha, Matt.

0:34.8

Aloha.

0:35.7

Hello, hello, Kim.

0:37.6

So, what a year. Wow.

0:40.4

That's the understatement of the year.

0:42.4

That is the understatement of the year. Yes. Okay. So just at the beginning, of course,

0:46.1

we're going to talk about the Me Too thing of Hollywood, which was kicked off, of course,

0:51.0

with the Harvey Weinstein revelations in the New Yorker in the New York Times.

0:55.1

I don't want to spend tons of our time on it because we've talked about this and written about this, and everybody, I think, has a clear notion that this is truly one of the stories of the year, not just in Hollywood.

1:06.4

But let's just look at the careers that have been impacted by this and in some cases ended.

1:12.4

Harvey Weinstein, of course, and Kevin Spacey, and I would postulate that we will not be seeing them again.

1:17.9

Matt Lauer, same.

1:20.3

Brett Ratner, same.

1:22.9

Russell Simmons, I think, is going to go very quiet.

1:26.2

Also, Louis C.K. and Charlie Rose.

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