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    The Business

    Top Chef's Richard Blais; Cybersecurity in Hollywood

    'Top Chef's' Richard Blais talks about being a TV chef. Plus, hacking Hollywood.

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    By Kim Masters • Mar 18, 2013 • 28m Listen

    Top Chef Richard Blais cooks up a career in television. Plus, top cybersecurity lawyer on why and how Hollywood could be hacked.

    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:00

      The Hollywood News Banter

      John Horn joins Kim Masters to banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.

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      7 min
    2. 7:13

      'Top Chef' Fame

      Top Chef's Richard Blais discusses how losing the first time he was on Top Chef gave him a winning television career. He talks with The Business producer Darby Maloney about leveraging the TV exposure he had on the various iterations of the Top Chef franchise to build a career in the entertainment business as a celebrity chef.

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      12 min
    3. 28:44

      Hacking Hollywood

      Stewart Baker is a lawyer whose expertise is cybersecurity. He is also former official at the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency. Baker talks with host Kim Masters about why and how the Chinese government may hack Hollywood studios.

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      10 min
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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:007 min

      The Hollywood News Banter

    2. 7:1312 min

      'Top Chef' Fame

    3. 28:4410 min

      Hacking Hollywood

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