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

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  Speaker 1: Marks them all.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter, you can check out
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  Speaker 2: his website. A lot of great stories there. Showbiz411. com. Showbiz411. com.
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  Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great. Good morning. How are you? Good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ed Sheeran. Got to be the nicest guy in
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  Speaker 2: the music business. What the hell is he doing with
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  Speaker 2: Macklemore as an opening act?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he didn't pick Macklemore. The promoter of the tour
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  Speaker 1: picked Macklemore and picked a few other people to go
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  Speaker 1: on the bill. And I don't think that Ed Sheeran
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  Speaker 1: really understood what was going on. Macklemore really had his
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  Speaker 1: only hits about in 2011 and 2012. Yeah. It's a long,
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. And more recently, I mean, he had
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  Speaker 1: no career at all. And more recently, he kind of
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  Speaker 1: revived himself by turning into this free Palestine guy. And
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  Speaker 1: he became very vehemently anti-Israel. And we didn't really hear
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  Speaker 1: about it because it really sort of reached New York.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a big deal. He lives in Seattle. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nobody really cared about him. But then he
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  Speaker 1: played two shows with Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium, and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly everyone knew about it, because when you come to
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  Speaker 1: New York, you know, that's the stage for everything. And
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran was smart. He said, the promoter said, this
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  Speaker 1: is not going to work out. He cannot go on
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  Speaker 1: to do eight more shows at stadiums. These stadiums are 60,000,
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  Speaker 1: 70,000 people. It's not like, you know, just even Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden. They're huge. They're huge. And you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have such a big part of the audience offended by
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  Speaker 1: walking into a political rally that they didn't expect. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like Macklemore can't have his point of view.
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  Speaker 1: He can, but he has to do it. He has
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  Speaker 1: to tell people that's what it's going to be when
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  Speaker 1: they come to the show. And his host was Ed Sheeran,
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  Speaker 1: and he wasn't really respecting his host. So now it's
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  Speaker 1: very interesting what's happened, isn't it? You know, Robert Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: who owns Gillette Stadium, where the Patriots play, said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't come to my stadium that way. And he
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  Speaker 1: got the other NFL owners to say the same thing
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  Speaker 1: about their stadiums. So, of course, McLemore was dropped from
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  Speaker 1: the tour. Now everyone's shouting, oh, freedom of speech, all this.
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  Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. If Macklemore wants to have his own concerts,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he has plenty of places where he can
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  Speaker 1: have them. And people will come, and if they agree
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  Speaker 1: with him, that's great. But this was a wrong look
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  Speaker 1: for Ed Sheeran. And I feel bad for Ed Sheeran
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  Speaker 1: that he's getting blamed for this now. He shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big mistake because he's a nice guy, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he doesn't agree with any of this. Um,
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  Speaker 1: of course now he and Robert Kraft are each giving
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  Speaker 1: $ 2 million to, uh, Gaza relief, which is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Gaza relief is a good thing. Nobody disagreed with that. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and Macklemore is giving a million dollars to Gaza relief.
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  Speaker 1: So $ 5 million, although no one really knows what Gaza relief,
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  Speaker 1: where it's going to go, it's going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the red cross or I don't know who's working on there,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, but obviously Gaza needs the relief, but, um,
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  Speaker 1: Macklemore is not really apologizing for anything he says. And
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  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate for Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but all these guys, even Bruce Springsteen, it's a concert.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to sing, play music. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know going into a Bruce Springsteen show how
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  Speaker 1: he feels about Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Well, forget Trump. Forget Trump. If you're doing a concert
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  Speaker 2: and in between two songs, You said to the audience,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I want to talk about the Fed increasing
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  Speaker 2: the interest rate a quarter. Nobody wants to hear this.
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  Speaker 2: No politics. It doesn't matter whether it's Trump or whether
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  Speaker 2: it's economic. You're there to sing. Just sing.
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  Speaker 1: But with artists, you know going in, that's who you're
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  Speaker 1: coming to. Bruce Springsteen doesn't have opening acts. With Ed Sheeran,
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  Speaker 1: you go expecting a fun time, right? You just expect
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  Speaker 1: a nonpolitical good time. Uh, he's playing his guitar and
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  Speaker 1: telling jokes and he's, you know, very red and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, red hair and, uh, and, and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. So you don't expect to someone, you don't
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  Speaker 1: expect to suddenly be in a free Palestine rally.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, wait, go back to that for a minute. Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Springsteen doesn't have an opening act.
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  Speaker 1: No, Bruce Springsteen has no opening. Really?
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  Speaker 2: I thought you had to have one. Don't you need
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  Speaker 2: it to warm up the audience?
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  Speaker 1: No, he plays for three or four hours by himself.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: E Street Band, enough for anybody, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: And what is that play, Three Hours? That's a little,
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  Speaker 2: you think Trump has an ego? A guy that plays
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  Speaker 2: a three-hour concert, that's an ego.
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  Speaker 1: I think he, well, he plays it because the audience
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  Speaker 1: wants it. We love Bruce Springsteen, and I could take
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  Speaker 1: a five-hour concert. Oh, my God. They're getting shorter now
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  Speaker 1: as he gets older. Oh, I just read this is
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  Speaker 1: terrible news. Oh, I just saw some terrible news on
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  Speaker 1: the wire. Duncan Sheik. who was the great singer-songwriter who
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  Speaker 1: wrote Spring Awakening on Broadway. And he also had a
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  Speaker 1: great single called Barely Breathing Has Passed Away. That's very sad.
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  Speaker 2: How old is he? Wasn't that old?
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  Speaker 1: I would say he's in his 50s. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. That's terrible. Hey, your buddy Woody Allen, is
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  Speaker 2: this true? He's making a new movie at 91? He's 56,
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  Speaker 2: Duncan Sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Um, yes. Woody Allen is going to be 91 on
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  Speaker 1: November 30th. And in the meantime, uh, he's about to
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  Speaker 1: start shooting a movie October 5th in Madrid. It's his
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  Speaker 1: 51st movie. And right now the working title is, is Madrid.
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  Speaker 1: And it's set in Spain where he's had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of really cool movies. You know, he had Vicky Cristina Barcelona,
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  Speaker 1: which was one, a lot of Oscars. It was a
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  Speaker 1: big hit. Um, We don't know what this one's about,
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  Speaker 1: but his last film, Coupe de Chance, was shot in
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  Speaker 1: France and was all in French, in fact. Actually, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen it, but you should rent it.
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  Speaker 1: It has a great twist. It's a wonderful film. Woody's
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  Speaker 1: still got it. He had a novel that came out
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  Speaker 1: last year, and he has a second novel that's coming
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  Speaker 1: out next year. that he's finished, and he's also got
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  Speaker 1: a play that he's finished. So he's getting a lot done.
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  Speaker 1: While we're sitting around talking on the radio, Woody Allen
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  Speaker 1: is busy at his manual typewriter writing all these things.
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  Speaker 2: And his greatest accomplishment ever is you could get a
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  Speaker 2: picture of him in 1963 on the Jack Parr Show
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  Speaker 2: and today at 91, and he looks exactly the same.
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  Speaker 2: This guy looks exactly the same. No difference. How is
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  Speaker 2: that possible? Clean living? Well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, really clean living. But, you know, it's funny because
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  Speaker 1: it's ironic, right? Because now the Carnegie Deli, which you
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  Speaker 1: hosted the other day, you were there, has reopened and
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  Speaker 1: have a Broadway Danny Rose sandwich, which is named for
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  Speaker 1: the famous movie, right? And the movie Broadway Danny Rose
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  Speaker 1: from 1985 took place at the original Carnegie Deli. You know,
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  Speaker 1: all the great comics sitting around telling their stories about
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  Speaker 1: Broadway Danny Rose. And it's all pastrami, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: corned beef, which we love. But Woody doesn't eat any
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was talking the other day. This Carnegie,
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  Speaker 2: the new Carnegie, is wonderful. But it's nothing like the
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  Speaker 2: old Carnegie with the big, fat, surly waiters and the
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  Speaker 2: comedian's table in front.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Go watch Broadway Danny Rose, the movie. You'll see the
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  Speaker 2: old Carnegie in its prime. Broadway Danny Rose.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't it nice? It's so nice to have the
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  Speaker 1: sign back on 7th Avenue that says Carnegie Deli.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: The food's great. The sandwiches, the knish, the cheesecake, everything
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  Speaker 2: is back. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's great.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been there yet? It's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been there yet, but I'll be there this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm definitely going. I'm sure there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: long lines. Yeah. But I actually wrote about it coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually almost the first person to write about
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  Speaker 1: it on Showbiz 411. Because they dropped a little hint,
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  Speaker 1: and I immediately wrote the story. I was so excited.
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  Speaker 1: And I said to the publicist, are you going to
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  Speaker 1: have a Broadway Danny Rose sandwich? She goes, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: She's so young, she doesn't know. I said, you better
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  Speaker 1: ask them. So they've got it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, just for everybody listening, it's not where the old
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  Speaker 2: Carnegie was. It's a block south of there. It's where
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  Speaker 2: the stage deli was. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Apparently, they didn't want to go. Which is actually
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  Speaker 1: a nicer, it's nicer. It has a, you know, they have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, enclosed glass front. It's a lot nicer than
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  Speaker 1: the Carnegie Valley was.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Yeah, it's all windows, so it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of light. The old Carnegie had no windows
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  Speaker 2: in the dining room.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, the old Carnegie, you walked all the way
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  Speaker 1: into the back, you know, into like a mysterious place
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  Speaker 1: where you got a sandwich as tall as you were.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you still get that sandwich, but it's great. Well,
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  Speaker 2: everybody read Roger Friedman's website, showbiz411. com.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a great movie last night. Do you want
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  Speaker 1: to hear one last thing? All right.
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  Speaker 2: Real fast.
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  Speaker 1: There's a Brad Pitt movie called Heart of the Beast.
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  Speaker 1: It's opening next week on the 25th. Go see this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it last night. The critics loved it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen a room Everyone was so surprised about
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  Speaker 1: how terrific it is. It's a survivalist movie. It's Brad
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  Speaker 1: Pitt and a dog, and the dog is going to
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  Speaker 1: get nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Say the name again. Heart of the Beast?
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  Speaker 1: Heart of the Beast.
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  Speaker 2: Heart of the Beast. Everybody go see it. And check
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  Speaker 2: out Roger Friedman's website, showbiz411. com. New stories every day, showbiz411. com.
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  Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right.
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