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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Alas, there...
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We told you in this space exactly one week ago that the Rock and Roll Hall of, er, Shame would be throwing a...
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The British tabloids are all excited today that Michael Jackson might have another child. He doesn’t. All they had to do was a web...
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Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Michael Jackson was harangued and harassed for the last few weeks of his life by his father, Joseph....
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Rock stars invaded the tri-state area this weekend: Sting, free of The Police, played a sold-out solo show on Saturday night at Foxwoods MGM Grand...
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It’s Ryan O’Neal vs. the Jackson family in a literal “Celebrity Deathmatch”: which one can make more appearances following the June 25th deaths of...
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Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Michael Jackson’s father, whom he feared and loathed, got to say whatever was on his, er, mind last...
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Sony Pictures is in final negotiations to acquire the film that will be made out of 'Michael Jackson’s rehearsals for his “This Is It”...
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I told you right after Michael Jackson died that AEG Live had 100 hours of rehearsal footage on film. I also told you...