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.
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Now Tom Cruise doesn’t like squirrels. In a new online report from US Weekly, Cruise is overheard calling protesters outside a big Scientology gala in...
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The musical “Memphis” opened on Broadway last night, budgeted at $12 million, in the works for ten years, and just, stupefyingly, clueless. It just...
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So what’s happened to the “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” musical on Broadway, now just a few months away from opening? “It’s still a $45...
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Madonna is becoming something of a skinflint. She’s certainly not into using her enormous wealth to help those less fortunate. After all that talk of...
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The new nine-DVD set of performances from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies is certainly a head scratcher ' just as...
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Michael Jackson’s documentary, “This Is It,” had a special, secret screening the other night at Sony. None other than Elizabeth Taylor got her own...
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“Who wouldn’t want to be married to Al Green?” writes a neophyte reviewer in Time Out New York this week. Okay, I will tell you,...
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So what American TV show is Monty Python’s Michael Palin obsessed with? “Mad Men,” he told me last night at the jam packed premiere...
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Joe Jackson cannot stop himself. Here’s the VIP Package details for his $3,000 ticket event for the two nights leading up to the opening...