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Roger Friedman, how you doing?

I'm great. Good morning, Mark. How are you?

Hey, you were at the Oscars. Tell us what it was like out there.

It was actually fun. It was a good Oscars. I think the show turned out to be great.

It was a lot of fun. Went to the Governor's Ball afterwards and saw all the stars getting the Oscars engraved, you know, because they hand

them blank statues because they don't know who's going to win.

You know, the movie that won everything, everywhere all at once wasn't my favorite movie,

but I see that it had, you know, a popular following, and the actors who were in it, Michelle Yo and Jamie Lee Curtis and Ki-Y Kwan were very, very popular with the Academy.

They had great backstories of how they had gotten to this point in their lives, and the Academy really identified with it.

So they really took off.

I would have preferred to see a movie like the Fabelman's or even Top Gun when,

interestingly enough, Tom Cruise was supposed to come to the Oscars and at the last

minute changed his mind when he found out Nicole Kidman,

his ex-wife was coming and it was going to be on the show. So that was kind of a curveball,

but Jimmy Kimmel, who was a really good host, made some good jokes about Cruz. So that made up for it.

And nobody got hit, nobody got slapped. That's good news.

No one got hit.

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