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

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

Everybody thinks your business, really, really, all the right life.

He doesn't clean.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, director Rod Lurie on having the Cajones to remake Sam Peckinpaw's

controversial, ultra-violent 1971 film Straw Dogs.

Plus, the scientist who got Steven Soderberg to do reshoots on Contagion. But first,

it's the Hollywood News banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood. Everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

I am joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So, John, you know, the model is being challenged, the television model, by a personality who is no longer on broadcast television, or cable television, I should say, Glenn Beck,

who has launched his own TV channel, I guess, GBTV through the internet.

And I will say Oprah should be so lucky.

Yeah. He's just barely launched the thing, and he has more viewers than the Oprah Winfrey Network.

But then again, so do, you know, some infomercials on late at night.

I think it's an interesting model.

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