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Mark interviews Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simon Show on seven tenor well. Roger
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  Speaker 1: Friedman a great entertainment reporter. His website is showbiz for
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  Speaker 1: one one dot com. You check it every day. There's
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  Speaker 1: always new stuff up there. Showbiz for one one dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Roger Friedman, how.
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  Speaker 2: You doing, I'm great, Good morning Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Savannah Guthrie is going to finally do the first
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  Speaker 1: Today Show interview Thursday, Friday, breaks down christ Thursday and Friday.
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  Speaker 1: You think they're exploiting Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, I mean she wants to go back. She
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  Speaker 2: has to go back to work. It's a terrible story.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's they haven't been able to find the mother. It's
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  Speaker 2: been a huge public thing, and I think to pave
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  Speaker 2: the way for her to come back to work, she's
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  Speaker 2: got to do get it all out on the table.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll do it Thursday Friday. They'll get big ratings
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  Speaker 2: and then maybe a month later in May, she'll come back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm here in April tenth. That's the day
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  Speaker 1: she's looking to coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh April tenth, is that what they're saying? Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: then then she'll be back April tenth, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: she has to go back to living. Her kids have
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  Speaker 2: to go back to school, and you know, life has
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  Speaker 2: to go back to normal, and they may never find
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  Speaker 2: this woman, you know, who knows what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Not the best I think that maybe.
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  Speaker 1: It's that the best thing for the Tucson Chamber of Commerce.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at that goofy sheriff and those
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  Speaker 1: crazy locals, and oh.
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  Speaker 2: And the mayor of Tucson has never said a word
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  Speaker 2: about this, not a word. This woman has never spoken
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  Speaker 2: about it. I think at the beginning she says something like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we have a problem in town. That was February first.
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  Speaker 2: This woman has not done a thing to help in
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  Speaker 2: the case. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if I were looking at this, that was
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  Speaker 1: very weird. Would not want to live in one of
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  Speaker 1: these breaking bad kind of towns.
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  Speaker 2: As New Yorkers, you know, we're against this generally speaking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I always said that in the movie Fatal Attraction,
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  Speaker 2: and when the family lived in Manhattan in an apartment
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  Speaker 2: building with a doorman, nothing happened to them. The minute
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  Speaker 2: they moved to the suburbs, Glenn Close got in there
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  Speaker 2: and boiled the bunny. So it took the kid hostage,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, the whole thing. So it's much better
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  Speaker 2: to be in the city and be in a nice
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  Speaker 2: doorman building and not have these problems.
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  Speaker 1: Also, you'd have surveillance cameras on every inch of every block.
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  Speaker 1: You'd know what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a very weird story about missus Guthrie
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  Speaker 2: because there doesn't seem to have been much security at
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  Speaker 2: the house or anybody living with her. She's eighty four
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  Speaker 2: years old and she can't walk or something. And the
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  Speaker 2: night that she had dinner with a daughter and son
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  Speaker 2: in law, they sent for her in an uber. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't even go pick her up. I don't understand. This
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  Speaker 2: is not if she was so old and so infirm,
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  Speaker 2: they were sort of treating her like, you know, a package.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of I hope that I doubt
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  Speaker 2: that how will ask her these questions, But those are
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  Speaker 2: the questions I would ask, like, why were you not
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  Speaker 2: why didn't you have someone living in the house with
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  Speaker 2: your mother? First of all?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean it's a remote area. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: they're good questions. But hey, have you been watching this
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  Speaker 1: JFK Junior mini series?
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  Speaker 2: This series? I watched a little bit of it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: around you around for the real around.
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  Speaker 1: How realistic does it look?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and not really realistic at all. And I'm sort
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  Speaker 2: of offended by the fact that people are doing these
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, they're dressing up as John Kennedy Jr.
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  Speaker 2: And they're having contests about who looks like him and
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  Speaker 2: all this. It's it's offensive. They died in a really
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  Speaker 2: terrible accident and none of these people knew him. The
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  Speaker 2: people who made the TV show didn't know him. And
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  Speaker 2: you see a lot of people who were for John
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  Speaker 2: complaining now and saying that the show has no bearing
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  Speaker 2: on the truth. Of course, Jack Schlossberg doesn't you know,
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  Speaker 2: believe it, and has you know, really criticized Ryan Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: And also don't remember, you know, don't forget Carol Bassett
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  Speaker 2: died and her sister died. So how hard is this show,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the that family. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 2: just exploitation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh definitely. But they really went the great length and
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  Speaker 1: expense to recreate all the locations of the nineties. All
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  Speaker 1: the streets are filled with nineties cars. It does have
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  Speaker 1: a good look to it. I know, it brings back
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  Speaker 1: a lot of memories.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I don't know if they're good memories.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about Paul McCartney. What's he up to?
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  Speaker 2: Paul McCartney. The other day he started posting cryptic messages
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram and now he's now even more cryptic messages
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  Speaker 2: came out overnight and it looks like he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be announcing a new album tomorrow today, Tomorrow, Friday. And
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  Speaker 2: it's amazing because he's going to be eighty four and
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  Speaker 2: he never stops. And the album is called The Boys
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  Speaker 2: of Dungeon Lane. Dungeon Lane is a street in Liverpool
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  Speaker 2: where he grew up, where they all grew up. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a very autobiographical album
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  Speaker 2: about his young days. And then, of course this Friday
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  Speaker 2: and Saturday, he's playing two shows in Los Angeles at
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  Speaker 2: the Fonda Theater, which seats about twelve hundred people each night,
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  Speaker 2: and of course the thing is totally sold out and
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  Speaker 2: people are going to be lined up around the block
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  Speaker 2: to try to get in. You know, he did this
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago at the Bowie at the
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  Speaker 2: Barry Ballroom here in New York. I went to it.
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  Speaker 2: Getting into it, you literally had to give a kidney
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  Speaker 2: to get in there. And the Barry ballroom is only
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  Speaker 2: about half as many seats. I think it's five seventy
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  Speaker 2: five and everybody stood and it was an amazing show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that people in LA will have a similar experience.
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  Speaker 2: And then I guess maybe the album will come out
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  Speaker 2: for his eighty fourth birthday in June.
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  Speaker 1: So from Penny Lane to that's pretty cool, Penny Lane
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  Speaker 1: to Dungeon Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Dungeon Lane, right, there are a lot of lanes apparently
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  Speaker 2: in Liverpool.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Manilow, what's going on with him?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, All these guys in
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  Speaker 2: their eighties are putting out music. Barry Manilow has had
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  Speaker 2: a hit all winter on adult contemporary radio. It's called
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  Speaker 2: Once Before You Go. Babyface remixed it and it turned
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  Speaker 2: out to me a little bit of a hit. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got a whole album coming out next month, but
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  Speaker 2: all new songs. Health Wise, he has lung cancer and
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  Speaker 2: he was operated on and it looks like he's done
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  Speaker 2: very well. He's done very well and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: start touring again next month.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's great.
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  Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool. And then Neil Diamond, he's putting
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  Speaker 2: out an unreleased album from from decades ago that he
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  Speaker 2: never put out. And now I kind of tell you.
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  Speaker 2: The first song is great. You know, the Neil time
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  Speaker 2: and stuff I love is like solitary man. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's that before all that, you know, I Am I said,
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  Speaker 2: and all that and Hello America. But this album, this
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  Speaker 2: song sounds pretty good. So maybe the album is nice.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds pretty good to the musicologists and they love
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  Speaker 1: but you know, there's a reason it was unreleased. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they always give you the album we put back. The
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  Speaker 1: missing cut wasn't missing. They just didn't want to use it.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't that good. So yeah, but this song sounds
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a big Neil Diamond fan, but
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  Speaker 2: I give them credit. You know, these guys keep plugging away.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's like, as long as we're alive, we
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  Speaker 2: just keep going. Nobody wants to retire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, we only got about thirty seconds left. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us how Broadway's doing. Is business?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Broadway is booming. It was up five million dollars
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  Speaker 2: this week from last week. All the shows are booming. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton is booming. The Harry Potter Show is booming. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: was up in the last week because of spring break,
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  Speaker 2: and it's busier than ever. On Monday night, I went
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  Speaker 2: to see Giant with John Lithgow, who's just a fantastic
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  Speaker 2: actor and gives a great performance. Daniel Radcliffe is doing
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  Speaker 2: a one man show on Broadway that's supposed to be excellent.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it yet. And then coming in June
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  Speaker 2: is a sting to the Metropolitan Opera with his show
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  Speaker 2: The Last Ship, which played on Broadway a few years
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  Speaker 2: ago and now is coming back in sort of a
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  Speaker 2: new form with beautiful sets and it's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: got incredible reviews in Europe, and now it's sailing into
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  Speaker 2: the Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances in June.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Nine, just nine. That's it. That he's got to move
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  Speaker 2: on to the next country. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that they got to do more than that,
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  Speaker 1: but anyway, it sounds good. Well maybe they will, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: everybody check out Roger Freeman's website. There's always great stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz
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  Speaker 1: for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with us, Thank you, Take care, Hey, Don't Forget Buck
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