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Financial Times
Los Angeles Bureau Chief for the Financial Times of London
PROFILE
Matthew Garrahan
Guest/Host
FROM Matthew Garrahan
The Mixer
A Brit Reports from LA British reporter Matthew Garrahan joins KCRW's Steve Chiotakis for a look back on his eight years in LA.
The Business
The Hollywood News Banter Matthew Garrahan of the Financial Times joins Kim Masters to banter about this week's top entertainment news stories. - Man of Steel is poised to be the biggest blockbuster of the Summer with huge predictions for its opening weekend. - Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recently spoke at USC about how the future of the movie business is doomed. - Newscorp splits into two -- the entertainment division and the publications -- just as Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, file for divorce. - Revenge of the Hollywood interns -- two men who worked as interns on Fox Searchlight's Black Swan win a lawsuit.
Hollywood Breakdown
Spielberg and Lucas Predict Doom for Movie Biz Spielberg criticizes the movie business for making outsized films that, if they fail, could take down a studio or two in its wake.
Which Way, L.A.?
A British Bloke in the City of Angels Los Angeles is the creative capital of America, the biggest manufacturing center in the US with the biggest port complex in the western hemisphere. Some 140 nationalities live here, raising money, making films and doing business. But one of the world's richest cities, the home of many billionaires, is afraid to spend money. Those are some of the observations in a special report on Los Angeles in the UK's Financial Times. Matthew Garrahan is LA Bureau Chief.
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