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 next time.

Everybody takes your business, really, really, all the white life.

He doesn't clean.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. This week on the business, Battlefield Earth recently won the Razzie for being the worst picture of the decade.

Today, the two credited screenwriters on that film say, don't blame us.

We find out how they survived writing one of the most notorious movies ever.

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

Stay close. It's the business from KCRW.

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

What's with him?

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

Hollywood.

I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

John, I think topic A at this point is Conan to TBS.

Well, he was booted off the air at NBC, more or less, when the Jay Leno experiment

failed in prime time. And TBS seems, I think, to you and me both, an odd place for him to land.

The place that a lot of people expected him to land was Fox, and Fox did want him, but it turns out

that their affiliates weren't so keen. A lot of them have programming in place, deals in place

for sitcoms and reruns, which they've

paid for. And they would have had a hard time getting some of them to sign on to show it

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