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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift is a marketing genius and is expected to sell many more "The Life of a Showgirl" albums this week. Singer Bad Bunny will do well, according to Roger, at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2026.

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0:00.0

plugged into everything new york on the voice of new york mark simone on seven 10 w o r well roger

0:09.2

friedman the great entertainment reporter is the website you should check it every day there's

0:13.4

always new stuff up there showbiz 411.com showbiz 411.com ro Roger Friedman, how you doing?

0:22.3

I'm okay.

0:23.3

Have you been talking politics this morning?

0:25.9

No, we never talk politics.

0:28.2

Well, Mark, who are you voting for for mayor?

0:32.1

Oh, I love that, Mom Donnie.

0:33.8

He's great, don't you think?

0:35.9

You know, I just have to say, before we get into a conversation about Hollywood, which I want to do, because I saw a great movie last night that everyone's going to love, this cannot go on with Mom Donnie.

0:48.5

And, you know, his mother is a film director, and she's a wonderful person.

0:52.9

Let me tell you, I know her, and she's a great lady, but this is not acceptable.

0:58.8

And I'm voting for Andrew Cuomo, despite all of his baggage.

1:03.9

And I just want to say to the your listeners, I'm going to say this four more times this

1:08.2

month to make sure everyone knows, please vote for Andrew Cuomo. Or Curtis? I'm not going to vote for Curtis, but I like him a lot. Oh, okay. I like him. I like his spirit. This Mamdani mother, the filmmaker, she, they seem to have a lot of... She's a great person. But how successful, I'm not familiar with her film. I mean, she's very successful.

1:27.6

Oh, Mira Nair. Oh, she made a monsoon wedding. She's made great movies. Oh, the namesake is a movie I

1:35.6

adore. She's a great filmmaker. And if you met her, and you would say she's a fabulous person,

1:42.1

she's not anti-Semitic, she's not any of these things. But regardless of how much I love the mother, I just have to say the son really should find another job. All right. Well, okay. They sound like great films. They're not casino or good fellows. But they sound like a good. No, she's made great films. And's and she's very well liked and everyone should be

2:02.3

nice to her and uh you know we'll work on that and i'm glad that her son wants a job but this isn't

2:08.7

really we're going to go a different way all right hey um but let's talk about something more more important

2:13.8

taylor swift how successful my god how successful was this album in numbers and in actual

2:19.1

metrics? Okay. So they're saying that she sold, they're saying that she's going to sell

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