4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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With 3-D movies seemingly raking in the dough, why are theaters so slow to upgrade? Plus, the hair-raising world of Hollywood fundraising and Hollywood power wives.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:06.9 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
0:12.5 | Everybody takes his own business, business, really, really, all right life. |
0:18.3 | He doesn't clean, clean. |
0:20.1 | What's with him? |
0:21.0 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
0:23.6 | This week on the business, 3D movies seem to be raking in the dough. |
0:28.0 | So why can't all theaters show films in 3D? |
0:31.1 | Plus, the hair-raising world of Hollywood fundraising, and Hollywood Power Wives. |
0:36.3 | But first, Peter Bart is out and Wall Street is down, |
0:39.4 | on up. Coming up during the Hollywood news banter. Stay close. It's the business from KCRW. |
0:48.4 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. |
0:53.6 | What's with him? |
0:55.1 | I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. |
0:57.6 | I'm joined in the studio by the business producer, Matt Holzman. |
1:00.9 | Let's start with Peter Bart. |
1:02.2 | Peter Bart, the venerable editor-in-chief of Variety, who's been there for 20 years, is out. |
1:08.3 | He's actually up and out. |
1:10.7 | Well, yes, he's been kicked upstairs. And I'll tell you, |
1:13.5 | the press has sort of jumped on him. Peter Bart, known as a guy who, you know, did a lot of things |
1:20.3 | to improve variety, but also wielded his power sometimes as the editor of variety as a blunt instrument. |
1:28.4 | And also was accused in a very damning article by Amy Wallace of some impropriety in his dealings with Hollywood. |
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