From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodessa Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes?

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at.

Prepare yourself for the brakes, check it out.

This week on the business, do salacious rumors swirling about NBC's Embattled Programming Chief signal his ouster?

What has he done that's so bad?

And what good is being overlooked?

Plus, in a world, without Don LaFontaine.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

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It's the business from NPR.

Thank you. from NPR.

Hollywood's Geiger counters started clicking loudly after Wall Street's reactor core began an accelerated meltdown last week.

The financial crisis may not seem like a

Hollywood ending, but it is of a kind. It marks the beginning of the end of easy Wall Street money for

Tinseltown. Amazingly, Variety reports mixed reaction from the media moguls. Some, like Rup and

Jeffrey Katzenberg, see opportunities for Hollywood in tough economic times.

Of course, we're not just facing tough economic times here.

What fantastic timing for the petro-mogals of the Arabian Gulf who just happened to have arrived with cash in hand.

Two weeks ago, state-owned Abu Dhabi Media set up a $250 million fund in partnership with participant productions,

which has financed the socially conscious and not exactly fossil fuel-friendly films,

like Inconvenient Truth and Siriana.

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