Mark Interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411.com

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mark and Roger discuss the confusion over Tony Dow's death. His family mistakenly released to the media that the Leave It to Beaver star had passed. Later in the day the family cleared up the mistake and announced that Tony is in hospice care.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Roger Friedman runs this great website.
0:03.5	Showbiz 411.com.
0:05.5	Best Entertainment News.
0:07.3	Showbiz 411.com is news stories all the time.
0:10.9	Roger Friedman, how you doing?
0:12.8	I'm great.
0:13.6	Good morning.
0:14.1	How are you?
0:15.3	Good.
0:16.0	How did that mix up happen with Tony Dow?
0:18.0	I mean, your own wife should know if you're dead or not dead.
0:21.2	How does that happen? I think that she was in tears and she said to her, his managers that he was in hospice
0:29.8	and that he probably isn't communicating anymore. Somehow they inferred from this that he was
0:35.8	actually dead.
0:39.0	And they posted it on Facebook.
0:52.8	And I, like many good journalists at about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, got this message and posted it on our sites and whatever wire services that Tony Dow had passed away.
0:56.1	And then three hours later, we got a message saying no he was still alive but he is in hospice and he's you know gravely ill and he's going to pass
1:04.2	away you know shortly and it's very sad because he's 77 and it's's interesting, the response that it's gotten because, you know, he's not a great actor.
1:16.1	He was a nice guy.
1:17.4	Hey, hey, hey.
1:18.7	He's not an Oscar-winning actor.
1:21.4	He's Wally Cleaver.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartRadio and Mark Simone, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartRadio and Mark Simone and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.