Selling at Sundance; Jeff Bridges' Stand-In
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
John Sloss, one of the Sundance Film Festival's most seasoned players, gives a window into selling movies as the independent film world struggles to recover. He talks about diversifying his business last year by distributing the documentary Exit through the Giftshop, and how that was both a solid business decision and a wild ride because Banksy, the famously secretive street artist behind the film, was in charge of all the marketing yet refused to talk with him. Then we meet Loyd Catlett, Jeff Bridges' longtime stand-in and stunt double. After some 50 odd movies together Catlett talks about being at peace in the shadow of "The Dude," getting his head shaved for Iron Man, and the security of knowing that when the next gig comes he'll be there.
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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 next time. |
| 0:12.4 | Everybody takes his own business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.2 | He doesn't clean. |
| 0:19.8 | What's with him? |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:23.2 | This week on the business, one of the Sundance Film Festival's most seasoned players |
| 0:28.0 | talks about selling movies as the independent film world struggles to regain its footing. |
| 0:33.7 | Plus, how an aspiring actor has made it in the business, |
| 0:36.8 | as the stand-in for Jeff Bridges for 40 years. |
| 0:40.7 | But first, the Hollywood news banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:47.2 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:52.2 | What's with him? |
| 0:53.1 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm joined by my co-banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:01.9 | And John, finally, Comcast has sewed up its deal for NBC Universal. |
| 1:06.6 | With the FCC's partial blessing, a vote of four to one, and it closes a $30 billion merger |
| 1:13.8 | that I think a lot of people had serious objections to, but it sounds as if Comcast got pretty much |
| 1:18.5 | what they wanted. Yes, there are some measures that are meant to protect competition and video |
| 1:22.7 | online, but even Comcast says it doesn't seem to be tremendously restricting. |
| 1:30.9 | And, of course, people have been kind of waiting for this. |
| 1:36.7 | I think that however much anxiety they have about this giant cable company taking over NBC Universal, |
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