Commentary: Three Hollywood types offer their own reads on the business of the biz

June 11, 2009 Others suggested conspiratorially that business people mostly spent their time at the beach or lazed around their pools rather than toiling long hours in their offices like Manhattanites. I'm amazed each week by the number of such tomes that hit my desk, though given the nationwide obsession with celebrity culture, many are about the stars. I've only been sent one book on the unglamorous but essential domestic syndication business in all these years.

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