1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simon Show on seven tenor well. Roger 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: Friedman a great entertainment reporter. His website is showbiz for 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: one one dot com. You check it every day. There's 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: always new stuff up there. Showbiz for one one dot com. 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: Roger Friedman, how. 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: You doing, I'm great, Good morning Mark. 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 1: Hey, Savannah Guthrie is going to finally do the first 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: Today Show interview Thursday, Friday, breaks down christ Thursday and Friday. 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: You think they're exploiting Yeah. 10 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: Well, now, I mean she wants to go back. She 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: has to go back to work. It's a terrible story. 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: Nobody's they haven't been able to find the mother. It's 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 2: been a huge public thing, and I think to pave 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 2: the way for her to come back to work, she's 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 2: got to do get it all out on the table. 16 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: So they'll do it Thursday Friday. They'll get big ratings 17 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 2: and then maybe a month later in May, she'll come back. 18 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm here in April tenth. That's the day 19 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: she's looking to coming back. 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: Oh April tenth, is that what they're saying? Okay, well, 21 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 2: then then she'll be back April tenth, and you know, 22 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: she has to go back to living. Her kids have 23 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 2: to go back to school, and you know, life has 24 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: to go back to normal, and they may never find 25 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 2: this woman, you know, who knows what's going to happen. 26 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: Not the best I think that maybe. 27 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: It's that the best thing for the Tucson Chamber of Commerce. 28 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: I mean, you look at that goofy sheriff and those 29 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: crazy locals, and oh. 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: And the mayor of Tucson has never said a word 31 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: about this, not a word. This woman has never spoken 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: about it. I think at the beginning she says something like, oh, 33 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: we have a problem in town. That was February first. 34 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: This woman has not done a thing to help in 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 2: the case. Yeah. 36 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 1: I mean, if I were looking at this, that was 37 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: very weird. Would not want to live in one of 38 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: these breaking bad kind of towns. 39 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: As New Yorkers, you know, we're against this generally speaking. 40 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: You know, I always said that in the movie Fatal Attraction, 41 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: and when the family lived in Manhattan in an apartment 42 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: building with a doorman, nothing happened to them. The minute 43 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 2: they moved to the suburbs, Glenn Close got in there 44 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: and boiled the bunny. So it took the kid hostage, 45 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 2: and you know, the whole thing. So it's much better 46 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: to be in the city and be in a nice 47 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: doorman building and not have these problems. 48 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: Also, you'd have surveillance cameras on every inch of every block. 49 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: You'd know what happened. 50 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 2: Well, this is a very weird story about missus Guthrie 51 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 2: because there doesn't seem to have been much security at 52 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: the house or anybody living with her. She's eighty four 53 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 2: years old and she can't walk or something. And the 54 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 2: night that she had dinner with a daughter and son 55 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: in law, they sent for her in an uber. They 56 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: didn't even go pick her up. I don't understand. This 57 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: is not if she was so old and so infirm, 58 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 2: they were sort of treating her like, you know, a package. 59 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 2: So there's a lot of I hope that I doubt 60 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 2: that how will ask her these questions, But those are 61 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 2: the questions I would ask, like, why were you not 62 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: why didn't you have someone living in the house with 63 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 2: your mother? First of all? 64 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: You know, I mean it's a remote area. Yeah, no, 65 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: they're good questions. But hey, have you been watching this 66 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: JFK Junior mini series? 67 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: This series? I watched a little bit of it, you know, 68 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 2: around you around for the real around. 69 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 1: How realistic does it look? 70 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, and not really realistic at all. And I'm sort 71 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: of offended by the fact that people are doing these 72 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: uh you know, they're dressing up as John Kennedy Jr. 73 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: And they're having contests about who looks like him and 74 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 2: all this. It's it's offensive. They died in a really 75 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: terrible accident and none of these people knew him. The 76 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 2: people who made the TV show didn't know him. And 77 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 2: you see a lot of people who were for John 78 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: complaining now and saying that the show has no bearing 79 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: on the truth. Of course, Jack Schlossberg doesn't you know, 80 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 2: believe it, and has you know, really criticized Ryan Murphy. 81 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 2: And also don't remember, you know, don't forget Carol Bassett 82 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: died and her sister died. So how hard is this show, 83 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: you know, for the that family. I think it's it's 84 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 2: just exploitation. 85 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: Oh definitely. But they really went the great length and 86 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: expense to recreate all the locations of the nineties. All 87 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: the streets are filled with nineties cars. It does have 88 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: a good look to it. I know, it brings back 89 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: a lot of memories. 90 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I don't know if they're good memories. 91 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about Paul McCartney. What's he up to? 92 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 2: Paul McCartney. The other day he started posting cryptic messages 93 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 2: on Instagram and now he's now even more cryptic messages 94 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: came out overnight and it looks like he's going to 95 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 2: be announcing a new album tomorrow today, Tomorrow, Friday. And 96 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 2: it's amazing because he's going to be eighty four and 97 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 2: he never stops. And the album is called The Boys 98 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 2: of Dungeon Lane. Dungeon Lane is a street in Liverpool 99 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 2: where he grew up, where they all grew up. And 100 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a very autobiographical album 101 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 2: about his young days. And then, of course this Friday 102 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 2: and Saturday, he's playing two shows in Los Angeles at 103 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: the Fonda Theater, which seats about twelve hundred people each night, 104 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 2: and of course the thing is totally sold out and 105 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: people are going to be lined up around the block 106 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: to try to get in. You know, he did this 107 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: a couple of years ago at the Bowie at the 108 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 2: Barry Ballroom here in New York. I went to it. 109 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 2: Getting into it, you literally had to give a kidney 110 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 2: to get in there. And the Barry ballroom is only 111 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: about half as many seats. I think it's five seventy 112 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,799 Speaker 2: five and everybody stood and it was an amazing show. 113 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: I'm sure that people in LA will have a similar experience. 114 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: And then I guess maybe the album will come out 115 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 2: for his eighty fourth birthday in June. 116 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: So from Penny Lane to that's pretty cool, Penny Lane 117 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: to Dungeon Lane. 118 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: Dungeon Lane, right, there are a lot of lanes apparently 119 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: in Liverpool. 120 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: Barry Manilow, what's going on with him? 121 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 2: You know, Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, All these guys in 122 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 2: their eighties are putting out music. Barry Manilow has had 123 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: a hit all winter on adult contemporary radio. It's called 124 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 2: Once Before You Go. Babyface remixed it and it turned 125 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: out to me a little bit of a hit. So 126 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: he's got a whole album coming out next month, but 127 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 2: all new songs. Health Wise, he has lung cancer and 128 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 2: he was operated on and it looks like he's done 129 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: very well. He's done very well and he's going to 130 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: start touring again next month. 131 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's great. 132 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: So it's pretty cool. And then Neil Diamond, he's putting 133 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 2: out an unreleased album from from decades ago that he 134 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 2: never put out. And now I kind of tell you. 135 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 2: The first song is great. You know, the Neil time 136 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 2: and stuff I love is like solitary man. You know, 137 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: it's that before all that, you know, I Am I said, 138 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: and all that and Hello America. But this album, this 139 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: song sounds pretty good. So maybe the album is nice. 140 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: It sounds pretty good to the musicologists and they love 141 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: but you know, there's a reason it was unreleased. You know, 142 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: they always give you the album we put back. The 143 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: missing cut wasn't missing. They just didn't want to use it. 144 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: It wasn't that good. So yeah, but this song sounds 145 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: pretty good. So I don't know. 146 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a big Neil Diamond fan, but 147 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,239 Speaker 2: I give them credit. You know, these guys keep plugging away. 148 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 2: You know. It's like, as long as we're alive, we 149 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 2: just keep going. Nobody wants to retire. 150 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, we only got about thirty seconds left. Tell 151 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: us how Broadway's doing. Is business? 152 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 2: Okay, Broadway is booming. It was up five million dollars 153 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 2: this week from last week. All the shows are booming. Yep, 154 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: Hamilton is booming. The Harry Potter Show is booming. Everybody 155 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 2: was up in the last week because of spring break, 156 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: and it's busier than ever. On Monday night, I went 157 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 2: to see Giant with John Lithgow, who's just a fantastic 158 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 2: actor and gives a great performance. Daniel Radcliffe is doing 159 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 2: a one man show on Broadway that's supposed to be excellent. 160 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 2: I haven't seen it yet. And then coming in June 161 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 2: is a sting to the Metropolitan Opera with his show 162 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: The Last Ship, which played on Broadway a few years 163 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 2: ago and now is coming back in sort of a 164 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 2: new form with beautiful sets and it's supposed to be 165 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 2: got incredible reviews in Europe, and now it's sailing into 166 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: the Metropolitan Opera House for nine performances in June. 167 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: That's it. 168 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 2: Nine, just nine. That's it. That he's got to move 169 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 2: on to the next country. Yeah. 170 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: I don't like that they got to do more than that, 171 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: but anyway, it sounds good. Well maybe they will, all right, Well, 172 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: everybody check out Roger Freeman's website. There's always great stuff there. 173 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: Just go to showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz 174 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being 175 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: with us, Thank you, Take care, Hey, Don't Forget Buck 176 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: and Clay Noon Today, excellent show at twelve noon and 177 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: the most listened to radio show in America. Sean Hanny 178 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: at three, Jesse Kelly at six, and Jimmy Fayla. 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