Hollywood Breakdown
KCRW’s The Business host Kim Masters breaks down Hollywood's top story with L.A. Times reporter John Horn.
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'Titanic' Returns to Theaters
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'Bully' Will Be Released Unrated
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MPAA Report on Global Box Office
Kim and John discuss the MPAA's newly released report, "2011 Theatrical Market Statistics" on the latest box office and movie attendance trends.
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Steven Spielberg's Very Bad Week
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Oscars Post-Mortem
Reflections on the lackluster vibe of the Oscars and banter over what the Academy could or would be willing to do to make the telecast more appealing to viewers.
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Oscar Voters and The Nominees
A recent LA Times article on the Motion Picture Academy raises questions on how its demographics could affect the films that get recognized by the Oscars.
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How Hollywood Handles Its Stars
In the wake of Whitney Houston's death, Kim and John banter about the way some stars are surrounded by people who don't have their well-being forefront in their minds.
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Box Office Numbers Up
Movie theater box office numbers are up and Hollywood is hopeful that, like the economy, it's showing signs of life. So far this year there have been three huge hits...
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Kim Masters is Editor-at-Large of the Hollywood Reporter. A former correspondent for National Public Radio, she has also served as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Time and Esquire, and was a staff reporter for The Washington Post. She is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else and co-author, with Nancy Griffin, of Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. In June 2011, she was awarded Entertainment Journalist of the Year by the LA Press Club.
Staff writer covering Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times
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