4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Filmmaker Benjamin Statler hopes his new documentary Soaked in Bleach will help reopen the Kurt Cobain case. Meanwhile, Courtney Love and her lawyers are attempting to stop his film from being shown in theaters.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:06.2 | I just could not believe that somebody else had not made the movie I had in mind. |
0:11.1 | And I kept thinking, well, somebody is going to make it, |
0:13.7 | and I figured it's going to be too late by the time I'm ready, but it never happened. |
0:18.4 | First time director Benjamin Stattler has finally made the movie he had in mind, |
0:22.8 | Soaked in Bleach, a documentary about lingering questions surrounding the supposed suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. |
0:30.4 | Courtney Love is trying to block theaters from showing the film. |
0:33.3 | Her lawyers say it falsely accuses her of orchestrating Cobain's death. |
0:37.7 | Stattler tells us why he spent so much time and his own money trying to get the police to take a second look. |
0:43.8 | But first on the news banter, an update from San Diego with the latest news from Comic Con. |
0:49.1 | Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:07.4 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. |
1:08.0 | Hello, Mike. |
1:13.8 | I understand you are on a dry docked yacht outside the convention center at Comic-Con in San Diego. I am indeed. It's the TV Guide magazine yacht, hashtag TVGM Yacht, where we've |
1:21.1 | been entertaining celebrities and producers taking their photos and basically giving them a respite |
1:27.1 | from the madness of the convention floor. |
1:29.3 | I should say we're flying a little bit blind because as we're taping, |
1:33.3 | Comic-Con is just getting underway, so things are still to come. |
1:36.3 | But what we do know is that Marvel, which has dominated the Saturday night at |
1:41.3 | Comic-Con for several years and launched movies like, you know, |
1:44.7 | the latest Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy or whatever it had coming is not going to come this |
1:50.3 | year. It's taking a break. And so are several other studios, Sony and Universal. We will see |
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