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January 01, 1990 - December 11, 2012 + The Business
Trolling for Talent on the Web; The Writer Speaks,Part III 
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Viral web stars like Lonely Girl 15 are huge on sites like YouTube. We talk to a Hollywood agent trying to help them infect the...
Princess Leia's Road to Recovery; The Writer Speaks, Part II
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Carrie Fisher talks about drugs, alcohol and recovery in show business. Also, the writer speaks, Part II.
Gifting in Hollywood; The Writer Speaks
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'Tis the season... for gifting in Hollywood. Plus, the Irish say writers are just failed talkers. We'll let you be the judge. Finally, how the...
Writing Partnerships: With The Two Mikes
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We speak with a
successful writing team, Mike Colleary and Michael Werb about the benefits and
pitfalls of creative collaboration. PLUS - movies about the movies.
Crossing Hollywood Boundries; Lawsuit.com
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A veteran film executive pays the price for becoming a director and breaking the rules of the Hollywood caste system. Plus, when Google paid $1.46...
Fast Food Nation; Film's Bizarre Bazaar
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Will the film version of muckraking bestseller Fast Food Nation finally ruin America's appetite for the Value Meal once and for all? Plus, the bazaar...
Agency Architecture; Marketing Controversy
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In an industry where image is everything, what are the big talent agencies trying to say about themselves with their uber-designed new headquarters? Plus, is...
Forty Million Latinos; Getting Dixiechicked
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America's 40 million Latinos are avid movie-goers, DVD buyers and TV watchers, so why doesn't Hollywood seem to care? Then, the Dixie Chicks get, well,...
Oscar for Arkin? Star-Producing Partners
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This week, Alan Arkin was nominated for an academy award for his first feature film in 1966. Forty years later, there's Oscar buzz about his...
Executive Pay; $1.6 Billion for YouTube
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It's a big-money edition of The Business. In a world where video-sharing site YouTube sells for $1.6 billion and Fox President Peter Chernin is paid...
Zune vs iPod; Investing in Hollywood
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Can Microsoft's new Zune media player challenge Apple's digital download hegemony? Plus, fear not! Jackass Number 2 isn't the end of cinema as we know...
A Killer Life; Telenovelas
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TV soap operas known as telenovelas are wildly popular all over the world, but how will they play in English here in the States? Plus,...
Are Reality Producers Writers?; Make-up Is Hard to Do
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A dozen reality TV producers go on strike and threaten to change the balance of power between all TV writers and the networks they work...
The Ragin' Cajun Comes to Hollywood
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Ragin' Cajun James Carville comes to Hollywood to produce his first movie.
Did Web Fail 'Snakes on a Plane'?; Bulking Up the Virgin Way
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Snakes on a Plane generated more online attention than any movie since The Blair Witch Project. So why didn't that translate into huge box office? ...
