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

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone live from the w R Life back studios.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. You should check out
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  Speaker 1: his website. A lot of great stories there, Showbiz for
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  Speaker 1: one one dot com and his new stuff every day
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  Speaker 1: Showbiz for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm great.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting ready for the solar eclips today? Is that today? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It's at one o'clock, one o'clock to you can watch
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  Speaker 2: it on CNN and everywhere one o'clock this afternoon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: one o'clock this afternoon. Can I see any your solary
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  Speaker 2: clips all over North America? And I can see it
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  Speaker 2: in Manhattan to Europe? I think you can see Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think you can see it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, because at one o'clock this afternoon, I'm m seeing
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  Speaker 1: a luncheon which is which is But it's very high
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  Speaker 1: up at the top of a skyscraper and it's a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic all windows. So are you telling me it's going
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  Speaker 1: to get dark in the middle of that?
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  Speaker 2: I know, But you have to bring your little glasses,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the uh oh, the special glasses that you
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  Speaker 2: look through because you don't want to look directly at
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  Speaker 2: the sun. Yeah, but otherwise you'll have a problem. But
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  Speaker 2: you know that. Carly Simon sang about that about the
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  Speaker 2: taking your leric.
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  Speaker 1: Jet up to the DEVI scully. Wait, wait, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what's this? You're so vain? That was the song
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  Speaker 1: You're So Vain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And she has a new album coming out tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night at Midnight, for her first album in eighteen years,
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  Speaker 2: and it's fabulous. It's got already got two hits on
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  Speaker 2: it and it's getting rave reviews.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there's one song where she sort of says about
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  Speaker 1: James Taylor, I never really loved you?
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  Speaker 2: Is that true? She says? The question is yeah, she says,
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  Speaker 2: did I really love you? Did you really love me?
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  Speaker 2: It's a cool song. Actually, it's very it's as you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine, it's very catchy because that's a Carly Simon melody.
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  Speaker 1: I still can't imagine Carly Simon married to James Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: to be hones, I just can't.
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  Speaker 2: For eleven years. Yeah, they have two children, they have
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  Speaker 2: several grandchildren, and I know it's hard to believe, but
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  Speaker 2: it happened.
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  Speaker 1: So she's got a new album coming out. How does
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  Speaker 1: her voice sound?
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  Speaker 2: Her voice sounds perfect. She couldn't sound better. It's an
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  Speaker 2: album full of hits, and it's called Comes Comes in Waves,
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  Speaker 2: and I think people are really gonna like it. And
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  Speaker 2: already the response to the first two songs. One song
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  Speaker 2: is called Peaches and one song is called Hell which
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  Speaker 2: I call which has a great line, and called love
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  Speaker 2: a Liar. But it's it's already happening on Amazon and
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  Speaker 2: actually comes out at midnight tomorrow night. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: you can fly your lear jet up to Nova Scotia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now that song, you're so vain. We're pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: it was Warren Baty. Has that been.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, don't you? I think it is. But
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  Speaker 2: she's always been cagy about it for us. Some times
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  Speaker 2: she said it's about it's three different people, yeah, combined.
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  Speaker 2: But it is one of the great you know, Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift points these songs. Now you have to guess who
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  Speaker 2: they're about. But the original person who did it was
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  Speaker 2: Carly you know, she was really uh and and Taylor Swift,
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  Speaker 2: you know, revers her so much that she's asked her
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  Speaker 2: to come be on stage with her to sing here.
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  Speaker 2: So then, really, which is pretty interesting. Yes, she's done
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  Speaker 2: it several times. Yeah, now some of these so that's
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  Speaker 2: so it's a big music week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but some of these older artists, we love them,
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  Speaker 1: they're the elder Statesman, but they probably too old to tour,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Rod Stewart, thank you, Rod Stewart, Well, Franky Valley, listen.
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  Speaker 2: He's ninety two. He's very fragile, and they had him
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  Speaker 2: until about six months ago. They had him out there
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  Speaker 2: touring all the time, so that was enough, and now
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  Speaker 2: he looks like he's packing it in. Rod Stewart is
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  Speaker 2: only eighty one, and for the last few months people
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  Speaker 2: have been complaining that he didn't seem really with it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: of course it turned out he needed a cardiac stent.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't breathe. Now he's going to be fine. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's going to come back and be more Rod Stewart
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  Speaker 2: than ever he is. But yes he is. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he was doing fine, except that he really looked like
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't getting enough oxygen and blood through his arteries
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  Speaker 2: and he probably had a completely blocked artery. But it
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  Speaker 2: is now unblocked and he's going to take off the
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  Speaker 2: next month or so and not do anything and see
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  Speaker 2: how he feels. But you know, these kinds are human.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The thing is that we don't think rock
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  Speaker 2: stars are human, but you know, they are human, and
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  Speaker 2: they have the same people have been canceling shows all summer.
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  Speaker 2: Young people too. It's very weird. Yeah, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember this when we were young. I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember this when we were young.
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  Speaker 1: No, at a certain age, you know, baseball player is
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  Speaker 1: like a forty year retire and football, I'm brady retire.
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  Speaker 1: You don't keep trying to play at eighty. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got to retire at some point.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. All the all the singers and all
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  Speaker 2: the performers that we liked in the seventies are gonna
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna they perform right up to the end. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be right on the stage when it's
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  Speaker 2: when it's They're gonna go straight from the stage to
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  Speaker 2: their funerals. All right. There's gonna be nothing in between
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  Speaker 2: because they don't do anything else. They don't play golf,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they don't play tennis, they don't macrima. So
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  Speaker 2: they you know, what are they going to do? They
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  Speaker 2: just want to keep it. They don't even need the money, really,
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  Speaker 2: they just like to perform.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Uh, this guy, Ari Emmanuel, he is a
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  Speaker 1: as you watched Entourage, he was Ari Gold but he
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  Speaker 1: ended up owning William Morris. He bought all these talent
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  Speaker 1: agents to them. But now what is he up to?
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  Speaker 1: Now he's buying Broadway theaters?
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  Speaker 2: What is he up to? So we used to have
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  Speaker 2: here in New York we have the Schuberts and the Needlelanders,
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  Speaker 2: and the third biggest company was called JUW Jamson and
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago they sold out to some
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  Speaker 2: called ATG from London and they and so ATG owns
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  Speaker 2: like sixty four theaters around the world, but seven of
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  Speaker 2: them are on Broadway in ten or in the West
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  Speaker 2: End in London. And now ATG has sold to Ari Emanuel,
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  Speaker 2: which is going to be really interesting because we have
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  Speaker 2: a new He's like the new power player in town.
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  Speaker 2: It's a in one way, it's a big endorsement of
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  Speaker 2: Broadway that he would somebody would come in and pay
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  Speaker 2: six billion dollars to own all these theaters. The question
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  Speaker 2: is is he going to be using this as a
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  Speaker 2: monopoly game and flipping them or is he going to
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  Speaker 2: you know, hunker down and really support Broadway. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: have to see but he's definitely a Hollywood power player,
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  Speaker 2: which is unusual to have on Broadway in the past,
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  Speaker 2: that's always been just people who were interested in the theater.
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  Speaker 1: Is he trying to be like a Live Nation where
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  Speaker 1: he'll control venues, ticketing, have that kind of mind?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's got he's yes. I mean he's got a
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  Speaker 2: few ticket agencies also, so he's trying to combine all
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  Speaker 2: these different businesses. Uh, this is something you know, Live
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  Speaker 2: Nations started this way with a guy named Bob Sillerman
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  Speaker 2: who since passed away. But he was the one who
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  Speaker 2: originally thought, you know, live productions were going to be
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  Speaker 2: the future, and now it's going to be Ari Emmanuel.
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  Speaker 2: His brother was the mayor of Chicago and and does
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  Speaker 2: talk about running for president.
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  Speaker 1: And his other brother is that ghoul Zeka manual, that
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  Speaker 1: ghoulish doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Is he a ghoul? You don't know anything about the
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about the brother.
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  Speaker 1: The brother's the one that came up with the idea
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  Speaker 1: that we should have death panels to decide if you're
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  Speaker 1: too old to get any treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. That's that's something from like the Hunger Games or something, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, hey, what about the the movie box office
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  Speaker 1: you got is this unusually you got two of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest box office hits ever huge at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: How big are they.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time today? In fact, very today as
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  Speaker 2: we speak, Spider Man is hitting seven hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. It's way over a billion dollars worldwide,
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  Speaker 2: but seven hundred billion dollars. And this is like we're
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  Speaker 2: a week three or something that. Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's Spider Man's just going to keep going and going
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  Speaker 2: and going until it hits one billion dollars in America.
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  Speaker 2: And the Odyssey is doing very well. It is heading
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  Speaker 2: toward five hundred right now, five hundred million dollars. And
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  Speaker 2: the Odyssey is going to win every Oscar. You don't
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  Speaker 2: even have to. I would say, just give the oscars
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  Speaker 2: now to the Odyssey and then move on to the
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  Speaker 2: other movies.
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  Speaker 1: And it's worth seeing.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth the Odyssey is fantastic. Now we are getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great movies. I will say, I'm really
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  Speaker 2: pushing the New York Film Festival this year. Tickets have
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  Speaker 2: just gone on sale. It starts a September twenty fifth
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  Speaker 2: at Lincoln Center, and they have a fantastic lineup. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really impressed. It's probably the best lineup. You know. We
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  Speaker 2: have the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival
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  Speaker 2: and Venice and they're all good. But the New York
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  Speaker 2: Film Festival really outed themselves this year and it's just
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  Speaker 2: going to be one hit after another for two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to see what movies are coming
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  Speaker 2: for the Oscars, that's the place to be in September.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, we only have like thirty seconds left. But
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  Speaker 1: go back to Broadway from it. How well is Broadway doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's Broadway okay. Financially everything's good broad Yeah, Broadway's okay.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of shows closed, Ragtime is closing at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the on the weekend, but you know, a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of new shows are coming and that's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: And the theaters, you know, the producers have to be
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  Speaker 2: more discerning about what they're going to bring in. You
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  Speaker 2: can't just bring in a movie that's been turned into
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  Speaker 2: a musical. It doesn't work. The shows have to be
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  Speaker 2: very creative, you know, they've really had to have to
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  Speaker 2: have something behind them. I'm looking forward to like people
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  Speaker 2: coming to Broadway in the next two seasons. In the
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  Speaker 2: next season, you've got Julia Louis Dreyfus coming in. See
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  Speaker 2: you have really some really good names. Now, yesterday they
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  Speaker 2: announced that Julian Moore is going to be doing a
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  Speaker 2: show off Broadway at City Center, which is really that's
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  Speaker 2: very exciting, and that'll start in February. Laura Lenny's coming
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  Speaker 2: in to do a play in February on Broadway. So
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna start. We're gonna get a much more serious
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  Speaker 2: season coming in. This season was not This season was
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  Speaker 2: sort of scattershot. It wasn't that good. But you know what,
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  Speaker 2: it's cyclical and it's never going to go away. Broadway
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  Speaker 2: will be here long after we're gone.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, that's good to hear. Great stuff. Roger Freeman.
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  Speaker 1: Check out his website. It's Showbiz for one one dot com.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot more stories here that we didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to and there's new stuff everything.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready for that eclipse.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one o'clock today, But check out the website.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting on my lear jeg All right, show Biz
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  Speaker 1: four to one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being with us, Thank you, take care hey, and don't forget.
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