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

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  Speaker 1: He's more marks himone on seven Gen wor Well. Roger Friedman,
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  Speaker 1: the great entertainment reporter. His website is Showbiz for one
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  Speaker 1: one dot com. You should check it out everyday news stories,
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  Speaker 1: great stuff. Showbiz for one dot com. Roger Friedman. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, I'm great. How are you this morning? I'm good. Hey.
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  Speaker 1: You must have known Ernie Anastis.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really know him, but I loved him. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: loved him. The outpouring of love for him is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I met him a couple of times. I
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  Speaker 2: see some nice pictures of you on Instagram with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was, well you met him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was just a very happy guy. He kind of
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  Speaker 1: put a positive glow in every room he came into.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was also what a career.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was so popular and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: tastes change in television, the television world and television news,
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  Speaker 2: and they're also looking for the next big thing. But
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  Speaker 2: he was always the next big thing for CJ. At
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  Speaker 2: eleven years at one station than twelve years at another station.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like.
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  Speaker 2: Even when he you know, he just kept going and
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  Speaker 2: going and going, and people loved watching him.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no more big thing than local television. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in the good old days you had Chuck Scarbo, Roger Grimsby,
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  Speaker 1: Bill but Tell. You don't have that anymore, you can't.
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  Speaker 3: I missed Roger Grimsby.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bill, but Tell was a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, did you know him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Bill, but he was a lovely He was a lovely guy.
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  Speaker 1: Very stern somber newsman, but off the air was like
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  Speaker 1: this wild nightclub guy. He was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was just very He was a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 2: very nice and a real newsman. But Ernie An asked
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  Speaker 2: this was he was really the like the epitome of
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  Speaker 2: New York. And they don't say why he passed, what
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  Speaker 2: happened to him, But I hope he didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: bad time. I'd been sick for a little while and
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  Speaker 2: the final cause was pneumonia.
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  Speaker 3: I was it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But look at the outpouring of love for him
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  Speaker 2: in all the stations last night and on all of
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  Speaker 2: our social media is just great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's very rewarding.
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  Speaker 1: You know, hey, let's talk about the Oscars. It's Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: the big Oscar ceremony. You know, yes, it's like local
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  Speaker 1: TV news. You knew every name, you knew the big anchors.
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  Speaker 1: Now you don't know who they are. Same thing with
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  Speaker 1: the Oscars. You had the list of presenters. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who half these people are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the list of presenters this year surprised me. But
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  Speaker 2: I actually wrote about this a few months ago because
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  Speaker 2: you could already tell that the actors who were going
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  Speaker 2: to be nominated weren't that well known or weren't big
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  Speaker 2: movie star movie stars, you know, and there was like
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of glitz.
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  Speaker 3: So I kept saying months.
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  Speaker 2: Ago, they better get in a lot of the old
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood stars or the very well known brand name stars
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  Speaker 2: while they're still alive, and get them in there to present.
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  Speaker 3: But they didn't get any of them. The only thing
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  Speaker 3: they're going to have.
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  Speaker 2: That I know of so far is that Barber Streisand
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  Speaker 2: is going to speak for like a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 3: About Robert Redford.
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  Speaker 2: But otherwise, and they certainly my joke was My joke
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  Speaker 2: was for the in memorium. They were not going to
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  Speaker 2: get Woody Allen for Diane Keaton.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it you, but nobody under thirty
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  Speaker 1: five is going to know who Barbara streisand.
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  Speaker 3: Is now they do. She's like a big star. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: You have you have a list of stars who when
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  Speaker 2: we were younger, we look forward to seeing Gregory Peck
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  Speaker 2: and you know, Myrta Lloyd and all these great stars
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  Speaker 2: come and give some glamour to the Oscars.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's supposed to be about.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, the Oscars don't have that much glimber
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  Speaker 2: anymore because people don't live in Hollywood, they don't live
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. There isn't much production in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: and it's straining for the movies, you know, to find
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  Speaker 2: a huge Auguinces. I'll tell you what I'm excited about
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  Speaker 2: is maybe next year's Oscar because Steven Spielberg has this
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  Speaker 2: movie coming out in June called Disclosure Day, and they
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  Speaker 2: just dropped the trailer. I have it on Showbiz four
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  Speaker 2: one one. This movie looks fantastic. This movie looks like
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  Speaker 2: a return to Steven Spielberg, you know, to et Close Encounters.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't wait to see it. And I'll bet
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  Speaker 3: it's a huge, huge hit.
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  Speaker 1: What's the movie about.
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  Speaker 2: It's about UFOs and apparently and the disclosure is that
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  Speaker 2: they're finally going to tell the truth about whether there
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  Speaker 2: have been UFOs, whether they've been aliens on Earth for
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  Speaker 2: the last eighty years, and it's going to make the UFO,
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  Speaker 2: you know, conspiracy people go crazy, absolutely crazy. There's a
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  Speaker 2: show on the radio overnight, do you. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you ever listened.
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  Speaker 1: To it, Saucer Show. I don't really get to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: I love that show, but normal people don't want to
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  Speaker 3: hear that. You know.
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  Speaker 2: People call it in. They say they've been abducted by aliens,
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  Speaker 2: they're up in spaceships, they've had meetings with them. And
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  Speaker 2: this movie is going to make those people. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to activate those people all over the world. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that Coast to Coast should really have Steven Spielberg on.
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  Speaker 2: But the movie looks fantastic and it looks like the
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  Speaker 2: cousin of Close Encounters, but even more like you know, serious.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the Oscars go this weekend, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So it's very strange the presenters are. They're going for
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  Speaker 2: very young and everyone's everyone's under fifty or fifty straining it.
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  Speaker 2: But they don't have any of the big, big stars.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm afraid that the biggest part of the show
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the in memoriam, because you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have Redford, Keaton, Gene Hackman, You're going to have
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  Speaker 2: all these big people who died during the last year.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a downer, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, The only Oscar movie I saw I was Marty Supreme.
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  Speaker 1: Is that going to win anything?
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  Speaker 2: Marty Supreme is a flashpoint now because Timothy Challome, the
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  Speaker 2: star for a long time, was in the lead to
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  Speaker 2: win Best Actor, but he has screwed up his Oscar
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  Speaker 2: campaign in the most unhistoric way.
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  Speaker 3: First, he started appearing in orange outfits.
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  Speaker 2: They manufactured orange ping pong balls to go with it,
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  Speaker 2: and everywhere he went. Plus he totes around Kardashian, this
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  Speaker 2: Kylie Jenner, who Hollywood just can't stand, and she's always
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  Speaker 2: dressed very trashy looking at all the award shows. He's
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  Speaker 2: really killed his own career. And in the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks there's been like a monumental campaign against him
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  Speaker 2: because he did an interview on CNN with Matthew McConaughey
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  Speaker 2: and he said that he you know, he made castigating
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  Speaker 2: remarks about ballet and opera and said they, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't going to live on as forms of art,
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  Speaker 2: and this made everyone angry at him.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a feeling, Martin have never been to
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  Speaker 1: an opera ballet. What are they getting so uptight about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but they didn't like the idea, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that you're going to see Samothy Tella may not win
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  Speaker 2: the Oscar this Sunday, which would be too bad because
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  Speaker 2: he really deserved it. But there are other The other
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  Speaker 2: people in the category are really good. You have Leonardo
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  Speaker 2: DiCaprio who could certainly win, Michael B. Jordan from Sinners,
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  Speaker 2: who's excellent, and Ethan Hawke, who's amazing in Blue Moon,
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  Speaker 2: a movie you should rent on on video on demand.
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  Speaker 2: So Marty Supreme may have ping pong this way out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Hey, we only got a minute left. What
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  Speaker 1: about the Oscar parties? Did you write that they're kind
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  Speaker 1: of downsizing a little parties?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Vanity Fair.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Vanity Fair is not the magazine that used
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  Speaker 2: to be, and they're struggling for circulation.
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  Speaker 3: They've lost a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: They have a new editor who's very young, and they're
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  Speaker 2: cutting the party in half. So they're moving to a
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  Speaker 2: smaller locale and it's not going to be the big,
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  Speaker 2: you know pageant that it usually is. And yesterday the
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  Speaker 2: editor did an interview where he said only people who
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  Speaker 2: have who've won oscars can come, but the nominees should
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  Speaker 2: forget it. So if you if you're not a for
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  Speaker 2: an oscar and you lose, you can't come.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's trying to create some fake cachet for the party.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's it's not it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Valvey Fair had a crescendo over the last twenty years
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  Speaker 2: with oscar parties and you know, fantastic, fabulous people. And
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  Speaker 2: now they stop by, they take a picture on the
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  Speaker 2: red carpet and then they go to dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, if you want to read more, go to
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  Speaker 1: Roger Freeman's website. There's excellent stuff there and there's new
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  Speaker 1: stuff every day. Show Biz for one dot com. Make
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  Speaker 1: it one of your regular websites. Show Biz for one
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  Speaker 1: one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us,
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