Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His 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. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
Movies
Box Office: “The Bride!” Stood Up at Altar, Makes Just $1 Million in Thursday Preview, First Warner Bros Flop in a Year
I knew The Bride when she used to rock and roll.
But that was a long time ago.
Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is DOA at the...
Celebrity
Magician Copperfield Makes $50 Million a Year But His Philanthropy is His Biggest Illusion: Just 4 Grants Totaling $30,000 in The Last 5 Years
David Copperfield has made at least a billion dollars over the last 25 years.
You'd think there would be a Copperfield Wing at a Las...
Celebrity
Epstein Curse: David Copperfield’s Sudden Vegas Exit Will Mean Millions in Refunds for May, June, July as People Are Still Buying Tickets
You can still buy tickets to see David Copperfield in Vegas this spring and summer.
The ticketing machine in Las Vegas is so complicated that...
Celebrity
Magician David Copperfield Leaving Las Vegas MGM Grand After 25 Years Amid Epstein Files Release, Cancels Hundreds of Shows Through End of July
Magician David Copperfield is disappearing himself.
Copperfield announced tonight that he's suddenly wrapping a 25 year run at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel at the...
Charity
Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Susannah Hoffs, Warren Haynes, Trombone Shorty Headline 10th Annual Love Rocks Show With a Bang (Video)
Live right at Veeps.com -- Love Rocks 10th annual concert to benefit Gods Love We Deliver.
Already Trombone Shorty, Jon Batiste and the Preservation Hall...
Television
Netflix Making Aristotle and Alexander the Great into the Next “Heated Rivalry”: Sandals and Togas Instead of Sticks and Pucks
Aristotle and Alexander the Great will now be the next Shane and Ilya of Macedonia.
Netflix has signed up a new series about the two...
Music
Israeli Defense Forces Use Fogerty’s Anti-War Song “Fortunate Son,” Not Realizing It’s About Trump, Netanyahu Sons
"It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son."
That's the reprise from John Fogerty's "Fortunate Son," an anti-war song about a soldier...
Politics
CBS News Lets JD Vance Off the Hook, Cancels Town Hall with Vice President, Bari Weiss Dumps EP of “CBS Mornings”
When Bari Weiss booked JD Vance for a CBS News town hall, she had no idea we would be at war with the world.
Now...
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