Nick Hornby Writes the Songs; Star Maps; Falling Stars
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
New music from pop star Ben Folds, popular novelist Nick Hornby and William Shatner. Plus, we check out those star maps that point out houses of the rich and famous. And what can we learn about today's shrinking A-list from a book about one of yesterday's biggest stars?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
| 0:06.8 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time. |
| 0:12.4 | Everybody thinks his own business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.2 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.9 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.9 | Oh, I'm afraid we've gone Hollywood. |
| 0:23.8 | This week on the business, a new musical collaboration from pop star Ben Folds, popular novelist Nick Hornby and William Shatner. |
| 0:32.8 | Plus, we check out those star maps that point out houses of the rich and famous. |
| 0:37.3 | And what can we learn about today's shrinking A-list from a book about one of yesterday's |
| 0:42.1 | biggest stars? |
| 0:43.7 | But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. |
| 0:46.0 | Stay close. |
| 0:46.8 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:52.0 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:57.3 | What's with him? |
| 0:58.2 | Oh, I'm afraid he's going to Hollywood. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:08.1 | John, how's it going? |
| 1:09.6 | It's going very well. |
| 1:10.6 | Happy Valentine's Day. Oh, thank you. It's almost Times. John, how's it going? It's going very well. Happy Valentine's Day. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, thank you. It's almost romantic. So, John, I believe I'm going to have to eat a little |
| 1:17.8 | dish of crow because, you know, I think I had predicted on the air that the Academy would drop |
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