Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame 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. 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.
Celebrity
We Knew It, We Know Her: Taylor Swift Will Actually Have $20 Mil Wedding at Madison Square Garden, in Sweltering Heat with Possible Thunderstorms
As Robert Cray sang so well, The forecast calls for pain.
Tonight and tomorrow, temperatures in New York will be sweltering. Lightning and thunder are...
Celebrity
Watch: Famed Actor Danny Glover and Family Tell NBC’s Lester Holt He Has Alzheimer’s Disease, Cites “Places in the Heart” as Favorite Movie
Four time Emmy nominee Danny Glover tells NBC's Lester Holt he has Alzheimer's Disease.
Glover was diagnosed in 2022, around the time he won...
Music
RIP Village People Leader, “YMCA” Writer Victor Willis, 75, Voted for Kamala Harris, Tried to Stop Trump Use of Song (See Video)
Sad to hear that Victor Willis, head of the Village People, has died at 75.
Donald Trump rushed to his computer to eulogize Willis early...
Movies
Oscar Season Will Pit Two Cerebral Movie Against Each Other — “The Social Reckoning” About Facebook vs. “Artificial” and ChatGPT
Oscar season is shaping up with a duel between head movies.
Today, Neon Pictures announced they've bought "Artificial," the Luca Guadagnino film about Sam Altman...
Business
Melania Trump Income for 2025 Was Around $17 Million, Made from Trading on Role as First Lady for Book and Documentary That Were Flops
"Melania," the documentary for which few saw tickets were sold.
Amazon paid Melania Trump $40 million for the doc, which was panned everywhere. It was...
Celebrity
The Devil Really Wears Prada: Fashion House’s New Spokesman Is A Well Known Anti-Zionist Pro-Palestinian Rapper-Singer, Previously Repped YSL
The Devil Wears Antisemitism.
Prada's new spokesperson is Marwan Abdelhamid, known professionally as Saint Levant.
Born in Jerusalem during the second Intifada to a French-Algerian mother...
Celebrity
“60 Minutes”: Another Vet Producer is Out, New CBS Investigative Correspondent Going to Cover Electronic Dance Music Festival This Summer
"60 Minutes" continues to bleed legacy talent.
Now producer Henry Schuster says he's out. According to the CBS News website, Schuster is an award-winning producer...
Business
Katy Perry Strikes Out Again with New Single “Watch it Burn” About Career, Already off the Chart After Four Days: What Is She Thinking?
For some reason, I always thought Katy Perry would have a big career.
After a bunch of hits like "Firework" and "Roar," Katy seemed poised...
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