Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411.

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Roger discusses The New York Times's article about the best songwriters of today; some names on the list are questionable. They also talk about the huge rush for the Michael Jackson movie over the weekend; despite big box office numbers, Roger says the film didn’t live up to the hype.

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0:00.0	No gloss, no filter.
0:03.0	Just stories.
0:04.7	Spoken without fear.
0:06.4	Person who is not generous can not be an artist.
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0:34.7	Hey, Roger Friedman is the great entertainment reporter.
0:38.0	You should read his website.
0:39.3	There's excellent stories.
0:40.5	Good stuff.
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0:42.5	Just go to showbiz 411.com.
0:46.0	Showbiz 411.com.
0:49.1	Roger Friedman, how you doing?
0:51.4	You know, I'm looking at this New York york times list of uh new york times magazine
0:57.4	list of the 30 greatest living american songwriters i'm glad you brought that up that is the
1:02.7	dumbest list it is totally inaccurate it's unbelievably stupid it's unbelievably stupid.
1:12.2	For one thing,
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