Sunday, May 24, 2026

Tony Scott: A Tragedy in Hollywood

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This morning there are a lot of unanswered questions about director/producer Tony Scott. Ridley Scott’s brother was as successful as you could be in Hollywood, with lots of commercial hits and many artistic ones too. He had a beautiful family with two young sons. Twitter is full of appreciations for Scott, who jumped from a bridge over Los Angeles Harbor yesterday and killed himself at age 68. I immediately thought of Peter Lopez, the popular music business lawyer who took his own life a couple of years ago, mysteriously. Same situation: very successful, happy family, everything in the world. We may never know the answers. But for Tony Scott, all we can do is applaud his great work and send condolences and best wishes to his family.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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