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There's only one way this is going. So let's just get there sooner. If we add female characters at the rate we have been over the past 20 years,

it'll take about 700 years to achieve parity.

So I'm saying seven years is plenty.

In the wake of a lackluster year in the best actress category, Gina Davis is hoping to promote

better roles for women with a film festival, backed by a surprising corporate sponsor.

And the late night space is in a time of transition, but Rick Ludwin, former head of late night at NBC, isn't worried, he tells us why.

But first on the news banter, new leadership at Sony, and upheaval at Paramount. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my buddy in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim. So, wow, has it been a newsweek in Hollywood? I'll start with, I'm exhausted.

I just want to say here, I'm exhausted.

It starts with Sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment.

So obviously, Amy Pascal was out in the wake of the, truly of the debacle of the Sony

hack and the interview.

And along comes, surprisingly to somemit the studio, not so much

perhaps to the outside world in Wall Street, Tom Rothman, formerly of Fox, the new chairman of that

film studio. Yeah, Tom Rothman won the bake-off, if you even want to call it that, and it's the start

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