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January 01, 1990 - December 03, 2012 + The Business
On-line DVD Rentals; Crazy Frog 
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Let's get ready to rummmmble as on-line DVD renters battle for supremacy. Now that Netflix will be handling WalMart's DVD rental business, does the competition...
Selling Films
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Ride the ups, downs and all arounds of selling a film at the Sundance Film Festival. We tag along with writer/director Richard Shepard, as...
The Show Business of Politics; Advertising at the Movies; Video Games
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Inspired by LA's mayoral election, we talk with two screenwriter-speechwriter hyphenates about the growing role of show business in the people's business. Then, two...
Ira Glass; Cannes Update; The Secret Job List
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Ira Glass of This American Life goes Hollywood. Then, we drop a line to Cannes as the film festival gets under way. Finally,...
Blockbuster; Cannes; LA Film Festivals
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Blockbuster has been quitely financing straight-to-video movies for years. Now, their film-s are starting to show up at the Oscars. Then, break...
Funny in Florida; Hollywood Musical Chairs; Teaching Screenwriting
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TV comedy writer Rodney Rothman retired to a senior living community in Florida...at the ripe old age of 28. He'll never eat lunch in...
Bleep; Locations
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This week, digital technology is being used to sanitize films, literally cutting out offending bits, a practice that has directors saying what the @$&*!!. ...
TiVo Saves the Day; Tracking Scripts, Reality in Hollywood
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TiVo's deal with Comcast saves the day. Plus, there are 8 million stories in the naked city, and probably 9 million scripts. How does Hollywood...
Battlestar Galactica; Shawn Levy; the Mailroom Tapes
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The reincarnation of Battlestar Galactica is an astronomic hit for the Sci Fi Channel, but what if it had crashed? Then a movie is...
Synergy and Indie Film
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"Synergy" was the buzz word of the 90's media-merger mania. But was it a magic elixer or snake oil? Then, a media giant proves...
Disneywar; The Last Samurai; Bi-Coastal
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This week, stories from Mickey-s dysfunctional family with James P. Stewart, the author of the bestseller DisneyWar!. Then a look at Sony-s new -...
DisneyWar
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This week, we cry havoc and let slip the dogs of DisneyWar! In a fascinating conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart. His...
Product Placement; Million Dollar Baby
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This week, a brief history of product placement, and we chat with Al Ruddy, the producer of Million Dollar Baby about how this year-s Oscar...
The Sundance Rollercoaster
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An insider's ride on the rollercoaster that is the Sundance Film Festival with the director of The Matador.
Bernie Weinraub Says Goodbye
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This week, it-s a candid conversation with Bernie Weinraub, the New York Times man in Hollywood for more than a decade.
