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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Michael Jackson can now spin in his own grave. The first speaker at the travesty-like funeral he got last night was Leonard Rowe, the ex-con,...
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Diane Sawyer is kicking Charles Gibson out of the anchor seat on ABC’s evening news broadcast.
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The Hamptons are racing to its/their Labor Day season finale, with plenty of Bentleys and Maseratis rolling up and down Rte 27 Montauk Highway,...
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Tomorrow, Michael Jackson’s second funeral will cost $1 million dollars. This morning, his mother had to petition the court so that Michael’s estate would pay...
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Whitney Houston’s first new album in seven years hits stores today. And get this: “I Look to You” is...
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Everybody in the Apple/Ipod/Beatles world, please cool down. The big Apple announcement next week on Sept. 9 has nothing to do with the Beatles. I...
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Whitney Houston was so good on Tuesday’s taping of Oprah that she’s doing a second one tomorrow. This means that Whitney will get not only...
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Best laugh of the weekend: a Brit tabloid’s assertion that Macaulay Culkin is the biological father of Blanket, Michael Jackson’s youngest child. Are they kidding?...
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Last night, little Sally Draper read “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” aloud to her grandfather on “Mad Men.” It’s roughly May...