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

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

This week on the business, this week on the business, the legendary James L. Brooks and veteran animator David Silverman

talk about their Oscar-nominated short film and their iconic show, The Simpsons.

Plus a sailor who was actually a drift on the ocean brings authenticity to life of pie.

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times, joining us from

Santa Barbara today.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So John, big news at Warner Brothers after a protracted wait, finally, resolution at Warner Brothers.

There's been a bakeoff going on for at least a couple of years when the Time Warner CEO, Jeff

Bukas, announced that he would be ushering out Barry Meyer, the current chairman of the studio.

This is really the most prolific studio in Hollywood. I'll say TV shows, including Big Bang,

theory, two and a half men, the voice come out of Warner Brothers,

movies, obviously Dark Night, the Harry Potter movies.

A long protracted question where three guys, the head of television, the head of home video,

and the head of film sort of pitted against each other to see who would take over when

Barry Myers retires at the end of the

year. Yeah, kind of an American gladiators with far less spandex. The winner is Kevin Sujahara, who is

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