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

So here's a guy who is involved in everything you know that you like and care about, right?

The music you like and politicians you may vote for and athletes you support, but you don't know who he is.

Or even if you know who he is, you can't really define what he does other than

he makes things happen. Director Reginald Hudlin knows this because he got a career boost

from Clarence Avant early in his career. You may never have heard of Avant, but this enigmatic

manager-producer and record executive has touched the lives of a wide array of people you have heard of.

Bill Withers, Hank Aaron, Barack Obama.

In his new Netflix documentary, The Black Godfather, Hudlin lines up all those people and many more to reveal the behind-the-scenes story of Clarence Avant, now 88 years old.

Hudlin explains how he got all of them to sit for interviews for a doc

that will soon drop on Netflix, possibly because Avant's daughter is married to Ted Sarandos.

Hudlin also talks about his own career, which kicked off in 1990 with House Party, a Sundance

hit that started as a short film at Harvard. But first on the news banter, the big studios say they may be catching the midnight train out of Georgia.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my buddy in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So in the past week,

you know, it's been kind of gradual. Georgia passed this anti-abortion law. Immediately a debate started

about whether or not Hollywood was going to boycott. This law is seen as a dramatic overreach.

There are other even more restrictive laws that are in other states, but Georgia has this big tax credit. There's a ton

of production. So at first we had a few people, David Simon, creator of the Deuce and the Wire,

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