KCRW's The Business

The Hollywood Year to Be

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:30:00 EST

2008 was a roller-coaster of a year for show business. Whatâs in store for the industry in 2009? It's the Hollywood year-to-be with Lauren Schuker of the Wall Street Journal and Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times.

Best of the Business: Carrie Fisher

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST

As Princess Leia, she was saved from the Empire by Luke, Han and Chewy. As Carrie Fisher, she's had to rely on a higher power to save herself from drugs and alcohol. Plus, going to the big show, Showest.

Best of the Business 2008: Favorite Features

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST

We revisit our favorite feature stories of 2008: the woes of a video-game reviewer, going to the movies with babies, Hollywood's fascination with swag, and what it's like to be a lady in the testosterone fueled world of the paparazzi.

That Was the Hollywood Year That Was!

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

The ups, the downs, the all arounds of the business of show in 2008. We talk with Lauren Schuker of the Wall Street Journal and Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times.

'Che,' Longer than the Cuban Revolution; She-Pap

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

Laura Bickford, the producer of Steven Soderbergh's new epic Che, on themaking and marketing a four-hour movie in an age of multi-tasking and quick cutting. Plus, a female in the testosterone-fueled world of the Hollywood paparazzi?

Why Doesn't Hollywood Love Theater?; Horror Goes Comedy

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

You're in a play? But I thought you said you were in show business? We look at the weird relationship between Hollywood and LA's legit stage. Plus, even though they're not actors, directors can get typecast, too.

Hollywood Goes to the Middle East

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

With a full-fledged production facility, major investments in film, and two world class film festivals, the United Arab Emirates is the next country to role the dice on Hollywood.

In Bombay with Slumdog Millionaire; American Film Market

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

We talk to director Danny Boyle about making his new film in India, a country that's on the move, but still sometimes on the make. Plus, the bizarre bazaar that is the American Film Market.

Shrugging Off Atlas Shrugged, Redux

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

Hollywood's been beguiled and bedeviled by Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged since it was published in 1957. Fifty years later, why hasn't it been made into a movie? We talk to legendary producer Al Ruddy, the first guy to get Rand's go aheadâ¦in 1974. (This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired on September 8. However, the "Hollywood News Caravan" is new.)

Bradley Effect at the Movies; Danny Goldberg and the Music Biz

Podcast:Talk — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

Is there a "Tom Bradley effect" in the movies, or are low returns for movies with black casts just self-fulfilling prophecy? Plus, music mogul Danny Goldberg and the future of the record business.