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    The Business

    Hollywood Assistants; Studio Rights

    We revisit our conversation on Hollywood assistants, with authors Peter Nowalk and Hillary Stamm. Plus, how does a studio spend $100 million on a movie when they don't own the rights?

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    By Claude Brodesser-Akner • Sep 1, 2008 • 30m Listen

    We revisit our conversation on everything you wanted to know about being an assistant, but we're too terrified to ask with Peter Nowalk and Hillary Stamm, authors of The Hollywood Assistants Handbook: 86 Rules for Aspiring Power Players. Plus, how does a studio spend $100 million on a movie when they don't own the rights?

    (This edition of The Business will not air live on KCRW as it will be broadcast by special Labor Day programming.)

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      Claude Brodesser-Akner

      Star-Ledger / NJ.com

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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