Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having. You can find Left, Right and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

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

I could have lived without that line.

The episode would have lived without that line.

But I knew that if I lost that, the next silly battle would be easier to lose.

Television icon Norman Lear wrote sitcoms that tackled real issues like rape, abortion,

and race relations.

When the network wanted him to drop a potentially controversial line, he just said no.

This Labor Day weekend, we revisit a conversation with Lear, now 93.

He talks about a few lifetimes worth of adventures in film and

television and his memoir, even this I get to experience. But first on an all-new banter, a shake-up

at Marvel and the Sony hack makes still more news. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Good afternoon.

So lots of news this week.

Let's start with Sony.

You know, the Sony hack is a gift that keeps on giving to journalists, but not too much to the Sony studio.

They have this movie Concussion coming out with Will Smith.

They released a trailer this past week.

To me, the trailer just looks like the movie might as well be called,

you know, football kills people.

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