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

If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.

Everybody thinks your business, really, really, all white life, he doesn't clean, clean.

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

This week on the business, the summer box office broke records.

But was the blockbuster season really all that?

Plus, what does the Leno primetime experiment mean for the TV business?

But first on the Hollywood news banter, J.R.R. Tolkien finally gets a little bit of precious.

Stay close. 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'm joined in the studio by the business producer Matt Hulsman.

Matt, what's up?

Well, as we've all undoubtedly heard by now, Ellen DeGeneres will be American Idol's new fourth judge.

Yes, it's true.

Go ahead.

Say it, Matt.

No, you're dying to say it. Well, you did predict that Paula Abdul would be coming back to the show, but it appears now that she is not.

Yes, I was wrong.

You don't have to spare me.

I have to say that my conclusion from this is that Paula Abdul or her representative is dumber than I thought, and the guys at Fox may be a little smarter than I thought.

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