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Ken interviews Roger Friedman from Show Biz 411. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten
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  Speaker 1: WOI and from today, here's Ken Roseanne and so good
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  Speaker 1: to be with you on a Friday after all that
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  Speaker 1: nasty weather we had yesterday. Fortunately, today's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: anything like yesterday, mixed clouds and sun and race degic
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  Speaker 1: saying it's going to be probably close to eighty degrees
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  Speaker 1: for most of the area, So enjoy it because we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get some more cloudy weather, maybe some stormy weather
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  Speaker 1: again over parts of the weekend. So it's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest getaway weekend. But you know what that
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  Speaker 1: means when it's a nasty weather weekend, it means it's
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  Speaker 1: perfect time to go to the movies. So you know
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  Speaker 1: who knows more about movies than anybody on earth that
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  Speaker 1: I know, it is Roger Friedman of Showbiz four one one,
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  Speaker 1: and he is on the line. Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Roger, good morning. How are you Ken?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing. How do you know to call
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  Speaker 1: when I start talking about what to do on the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: And it's just amazing. It's like we are connected somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: feeling that is It's what I said is true, though
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  Speaker 1: there is nobody who knows about movies more than you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: So Spider Man Brand New Day Out of Control already
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  Speaker 1: broken the eight hundred million dollar mark in the US.
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  Speaker 2: Two billion in sanity. So should people still?
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  Speaker 1: Should people still go see it? Even if they saw.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think they've seen it three or four times.
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  Speaker 3: I get to this point. Yeah, But it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun. It's very well made.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know this.
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  Speaker 3: The action sequences are terrific, and it answers the questions
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  Speaker 3: from the last movie when Peter Parker's friends no longer
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  Speaker 3: remembered him and Sony remembered him, and that's the main thing.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's just huge. And I think there'll
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  Speaker 3: be one more of these with Tom Holland and Sendeia
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  Speaker 3: and then they'll they'll bring it to an end. But
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  Speaker 3: it's it's incredible that I think there have been nine
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man movies now, which is you know, the beginning
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  Speaker 3: over twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: And who would have thought? Who would have thought it?
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  Speaker 3: When I was buying Spider Man comics for twelve cents,
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  Speaker 3: you know every month. I never would have said to myself,
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  Speaker 3: one day this will be you know, a gazillion dollar industry.
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  Speaker 3: But it really, it really has turned out to be
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic success.
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  Speaker 1: Would let me ask you this, if somebody hasn't seen
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  Speaker 1: any of the recent films, can they see this as
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  Speaker 1: a standalone Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you could see this as a standalone movie because
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  Speaker 3: they tell you right at the beginning sort of what
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  Speaker 3: happened in the last one. I mean, it would be
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  Speaker 3: good to see the last one because it was fun
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  Speaker 3: and you could see, you know, the last three if
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  Speaker 3: you wanted to. But this one you could just go
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  Speaker 3: into and you can get it. I mean, it's Spider Man.
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  Speaker 3: It's not Macbeth. You know you can by by now,
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  Speaker 3: Spider Man has become our Macbeth. I mean in a
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  Speaker 3: strange way, it's become like our Shakespeare because it's just
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  Speaker 3: it's like endless. But these all these franchises, like the
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  Speaker 3: Marvel franchise, the DC conducts, Star Wars of the Star Trek,
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  Speaker 3: these have become sort of the literature of this generation.
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  Speaker 3: Very weird, but it's taken off.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: My movie literature, by the way, is Woody Allen, and
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  Speaker 3: I just announced this morning that he's going to shoot
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  Speaker 3: his fifty first movie this fall in Spain. Wow, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be ninety one at the end of November.
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  Speaker 3: I just was I just I was just told that
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  Speaker 3: he's shooting his fifty first movie in Madrid and don't
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  Speaker 3: know who the cast is yet. He's also apparently been
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  Speaker 3: finishing up a new novel, a second novel, and a
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  Speaker 3: play for the stage. So that's incredible to me. He's
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  Speaker 3: our Shakespeare. But maybe he'll put Spider Man in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right that wait a shecond Woody Allen, you're saying
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  Speaker 1: that he is more of a favor when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to movies than Madonna is.
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  Speaker 3: To you, Madonna, this is the funniest thing, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: The Criterion Channel, which is, like, you know, it's supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be an intellectual channel for great film buffs. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to do a retrospective of three Madonna movies this.
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  Speaker 2: Fall this fall, And.
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  Speaker 3: She's the worst actress ever in films, And the only
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  Speaker 3: movie that she made really that was of any interest
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  Speaker 3: was Desperately Seeking Susan, which was, you know, forty years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and that was because of Rosanna Arquette and because of
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  Speaker 3: the director, Susan Seidelman, who was so great. But outside
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  Speaker 3: of that Madonna is that. You know, she's a great
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  Speaker 3: personality and a great performer, but she's a terrible actress. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 3: two of her besides Desperately Seeking Susan, two of her
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  Speaker 3: worst movies are going to be part of the Criterion
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  Speaker 3: Channel next month.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get it, but it should be. It should be amusing, it.
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  Speaker 1: Should be indeed, all right. Zevaded Wy the voice of
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  Speaker 1: New York hen Risotto in from Mark on a Friday,
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  Speaker 1: speaking with the great Roger Friedman of Showbiz for one
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  Speaker 1: One can check it out at showbizfore one one dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Before I let you go, we got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: two things. Of course. The Odyssey is at the half
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar mark, still a great film and doing well.
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  Speaker 1: And Anne Hathaway, if I need to buy a lottery ticket,
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking Anne Hathaway because she knows how to pick them.
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  Speaker 1: Three superstar Powerhouse scripts.
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  Speaker 3: She's got a horror movie called The End of Oak
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  Speaker 3: Street that people seem to like.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 3: And then she had The Devil Wares Prota two earlier
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  Speaker 3: in this in the spring. And she's the star of
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  Speaker 3: the Odyssey. She's going to get an Oscar nomination. The
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  Speaker 3: Odyssey is going to get like fifteen Oscar nominations. I
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  Speaker 3: can't imagine any other film coming out between now and
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year that will match it in
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  Speaker 3: any way. So we know the Odyssey is going to
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  Speaker 3: be crowned next March with all kinds of awards. And
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you about one other little film
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  Speaker 3: that's playing in New York if you can find it.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Late Fame and it stars Willem Dafoe. And
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  Speaker 3: I love this film and I'd like people to see
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  Speaker 3: it if they can. And it's a real independent film,
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  Speaker 3: but it's beautifully done and I think if you're a
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  Speaker 3: real film person, you'd enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, and I'm tired of people calling him
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  Speaker 1: William Dafaue. By the way, if I hear it one
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  Speaker 1: more time, I'm gonna bite my cheekins. And he's born here.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard anyone call him billy.
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  Speaker 1: I've had so many a conversation. I only know this
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  Speaker 1: stuff only because I went to NYU Film School, right
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  Speaker 1: to TSH School, and I remember having this intellectual conversation
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  Speaker 1: with somebody and they said, well, you know when he
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  Speaker 1: was born in Germany, I said, is an American. What
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  Speaker 1: do you mean born in Germany, Lam the Foe was
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  Speaker 1: born here. He's like as American as us, totally, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent. Just one last thing before I let you go,
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  Speaker 1: Roger Chris Rock, whom I love. I love Chris Rock, brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: His cousin, April Rock could be coming SNL.
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  Speaker 2: She might be.
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  Speaker 3: They're making the decisions right now about the You know,
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  Speaker 3: some people have left SNL. It's always happens, and they'll
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  Speaker 3: be adding a couple of new young people. And they've
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  Speaker 3: been looking for a young black female comic. They haven't
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  Speaker 3: really had one since Ego Neodam who I loved.
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  Speaker 2: She left a couple of last year in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: And so yeah, this April Rock, who's I have her
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  Speaker 3: videos up on the site on.
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  Speaker 2: Showbiz four on one.
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  Speaker 3: She's terrific and she's I think she's Chris's first or
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  Speaker 3: second cousin.
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  Speaker 2: And she's not an EPO baby.
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  Speaker 3: She's funny on her own, very talented, and she may
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  Speaker 3: be who knows, she may be one of the next
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  Speaker 3: people to join the SNL cast.
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  Speaker 1: She has one tenth the talent of Chris Rock. Then
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  Speaker 1: we're in for something very special because Chris Rock is
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  Speaker 1: just a brilliant, brilliant person and.
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  Speaker 3: He has By the way, Chris Rock has a great
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  Speaker 3: movie coming out this fall.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I care the name of it, but you'll be seeing
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  Speaker 3: the press about it soon and it's going to play
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  Speaker 3: at the New York Film Festival.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll watch it there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's look it up. As we talked to you,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rock movie. I'm typing it in right now. Let's
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  Speaker 1: find it. We got you can't tease us like that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's see come on, come on, come on, let's get
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  Speaker 1: with the internet here, let's see movie movie all right,
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  Speaker 1: grown ups? We were any other and Beverly Hills cops.
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  Speaker 1: Old doesn't have the new stuff, it doesn't have anything here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he directed it. Oh that's why he directed it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait is head of State? No, that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's old. We'll figure it out if if you find
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  Speaker 1: out while we're on the air, please let us know
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  Speaker 1: and I'll mention it on you.
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  Speaker 2: Misty Green, that's called Misty Green.
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  Speaker 1: There we go, Misty Green. Chris Rock directly.
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  Speaker 2: Called Misty Green.
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  Speaker 3: And I hear it's terrific and I'm really looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I was at Channel seven, Chris used
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  Speaker 1: to have an apartment on the Upper West Uh when
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  Speaker 1: he I guess during the week, if he was doing
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  Speaker 1: anything in Manhattan, he would stay at his apartment and
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  Speaker 1: then he lived over and I think Alpine at the
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  Speaker 1: time when he was married. But he would pop by
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  Speaker 1: the studios and he would wave into the window. He
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  Speaker 1: and Laurie Stokes, my co anchor at the time, they
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  Speaker 1: were friends. He would wave in and I'd say, that's
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rock, and you know, we'd be on the air
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  Speaker 1: talk about getting distracted while you're doing the news. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty cool, but very nice man the few times
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  Speaker 1: I got to read him again. The website is showbiz
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  Speaker 1: for one one. You could check it out at showbiz
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  Speaker 1: four one one dot com. All one word Roger Friedman
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  Speaker 1: always a pleasure, my friend. Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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