The Inside Scoop on Outside Financing Scandals

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.5 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Producer David Bergstein seems to have pulled the financial wool over Hollywood's eyes. We get answers to the question "how does this keep happening?" with prolific producer Art Linson. He worked with the last David Bergstein, bigger-than-life financier Elie Samaha.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:07.0	You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.
0:12.0	Everybody thinks his own business, really, really, all right life.
0:18.0	He doesn't clean.
0:20.0	What's with him?
0:21.3	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.
0:24.5	This week on the business, movie middleman David Bergstein seems to owe money to everyone in town.
0:30.6	But he's hardly the first dealmaker to work the financial shell game on Hollywood.
0:34.9	And big-time producer Art Linson says anyone who claims they were blindsided
0:39.1	by Bergstein is lying, quite possibly, to themselves. But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. Stay close.
0:46.9	It's the business from KCRW.
0:50.5	You can imagine Hollywood, is really driven by making money
1:00.0	What's with him?
1:01.8	Oh, I'm afraid he's going to Hollywood, Hollywood.
1:07.7	I am joined in the studio by my banter buddy, John Horn of Los Angeles Times.
1:12.8	Hello, John.
1:13.8	Hello, Kim.
1:14.9	And what's at the top of the agenda today?
1:16.5	Would it be one David Bergstein?
1:18.4	It's like the best drama in Hollywood right now.
1:21.0	Comical, sad?
1:21.9	It's on TV.
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