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

Sin Eater, the crimes of Anthony Pelicano, examines the rise and fall of the infamous private investigator.

Pelicano went to prison for more than 15 years for wiretapping and other crimes,

but almost all of his powerful clients walked away unscathed.

Our audience is going to have to listen to some of these recordings with people like Chris Rock or Marty Singer,

whoever, and come to their own conclusions based on what he himself is saying about whether they think people

should have been held more responsible than they ultimately were.

In their documentary, filmmakers and New York Times journalists, Rachel Abrams and Liz

Day include Pelicano's description of his misdeeds alongside victim's accounts of the devastating

impact of his campaigns of intimidation. And I throw in some memories of my own interactions

with Pelicano and his clients over the years. But first, we banter. Stick

around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So starting on Monday, the Writers Guild will be negotiating with the studios. There has been a

long drumbeat leading up to this,

because most people, I think, in the town believe that there will be a strike. We had one in

2008. It was long and created a lot of ill feeling, and of course people suffer. But it feels

like there just is a moment where certainly the Writers Guild,

and very possibly some of the other guilds, are feeling that they are up against the wall

and they need to protect themselves and get guarantees about compensation above all.

And at the same time, the studios are belt tightening, and there are those who feel that the studios, some of them at least, would welcome a writer's strike as a chance to do the kind of house cleaning and getting rid of expensive deals and, you know, making things cheaper for a while, that they might be willing to have a strike and not necessarily rush to end it.

That's going to be a very fraught situation for

Hollywood for the unforeseeable future. Yeah, it's definitely pins and needles time. And there is such a

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