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.
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Happy Ending: John Mayer Fan Gets Himself Invited to Private Sirius Show in the Hamptons By Playing Singer’s Song Every Day for a Month
It's rare you find a gifted singer songwriter who's also good at publicity.
But Taylor Thomas Lane is that guy.
A recent college grad, TTL is...
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Target Was Selling Offensive, Racist $25 Children’s Hollywood Costume That Resembled Caricature of Black Minstrel: Ditched After Complaints
This actually happened.
Target was forced to pull a racist children's Hollywood costume from its online store.
The “Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume...
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Kennedy Center Honors Announcement is Now Way Overdue: Will This Be the Week We Hear Trump’s Choices? And Where Will It Be Held?
The clock is ticking for this year's Kennedy Center Honors.
Most years, the announcement of the names comes in July. Once recently, it was June.
Last...
Business
“Spider Man” Spins Web Toward $900 Million This Week, Will Become 2nd Highest Grossing Movie Ever Tomorrow, Plus “Insidious” Proves its Name
What a week for Sony Pictures.
Moribund most of the time, Sony rose from the ashes with "Spider Man: Brand New Day."
The 9th Spider Man...
Celebrity
Paris Jackson Throws an Album Release Party — and LaToya is One of Her Guests: Michael Jackson Could Never Have Imagined This Scenario
Paris Jackson had an album release party yesterday. And guess who was there? Aunt LaToya!
Isn't it amazing? It's 2026. Michael Jackson's daughter is rockin'...
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Indie Star Clairo Drinks $8000 Bottle of Wine at McNally Restaurant: Hold On, Taylor Swift, The New Girl Singers are No Waifs, They All...
Long gone are the days of waifs like Joni Mitchell or Judy Collins turning up in Greenwich Village with their guitars.
And forget Madonna, who...
Business
FYC: Actor Ashton Kutcher, Who’s Done So Well In Tech, Muses About Director Mike Nichols and the Meaning of Twitter, Macro vs. Micro Thoughts,...
Ashton Kutcher is musing about late director Mike Nichols and the meaning of Twitter.
I'm not sure what it all means, but Kutcher has done...
Television
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When planes were crashing and trains were derailing, Trump's transportation secretary was busy doing something else.
Sean Duffy and his family, it was revealed much...
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