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.
Music
Mariah Carey, Michael Buble, Nat King Cole, Phil Spector Christmas Albums Outsold by a Soft Spoken Man Who Died in 1977
Old chestnuts keep on roasting.
Guess whose Christmas album outsold Mariah Carey and Michael Buble? Also Phil Spector and Nat King Cole?
Hint: he made movies...
Theater
Kennedy Center, Once Home to Broadway Hits, Has Just 1 Show Coming for Next Six Months, Plus Southern Musician Cancels
The Kennedy Center is going to be very quiet this winter and spring.
The only show of note coming in for the next six months...
Movies
Exclusive: Miley Cyrus Has a Great Best Song Candidate This Year for “Avatar,” But She Almost Had One Recently Until It Got Pulled
I'm just reading about Miley Cyrus and her "Avatar" song this year.
The song is "Dream as One," and it's most certainly in the running...
Celebrity
“Marty Supreme” Starring Timothee Chalamet Paddles $28 Mil in 10 Days Despite Tina Brown Snarking Real Life Subject as “Maddening Rando”
Tina Brown, the founding editor of the real Vanity Fair, didn't like Marty Reisman much.
She says on Substack that he was a "maddening rando"...
Media
Trump Kennedy Center Website Goes Live, Except It’s Owned by Satirist, Comedy Writer and Activist: Epstein Dancers Next!
The Trump Kennedy Center website is now live on the internet.
Only one thing: it's not owned by the US government, the Kennedy Center, or...
Celebrity
All Mariah Carey Wants for Xmas is for Son Rocky to Stop Giving the Finger in Every Family Photograph and Daughter to Stop Looking...
Mariah Carey is finally living every parent's nightmare.
She's got two teenagers exactly like herself and their famous father, Nick Cannon.
In Christmas photos, Mariah actually...
Featured
Christmas Miracle! Barron Trump Spotted in Captivity at Mar-a-Lago, Solemnly Following Father To Morose Holiday Dinner
Barron Trump has been seen in public!
It's a Christmas miracle!
The Daily Beast reports he turned up on the Instagram page of Valeria Berkland aka...
Politics
Trump Plans to Turn Kennedy Center into Marble Bathroom, Did He Get a Deal? Says Armrests in Theater “Unlike Anything” — For a Reason!
Donald Trump has been busy redecorating the White House.
He's remaking historic rooms with cheap looking marble he probably got in deal. It may only...
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