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Hey, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter.

Now, he's got an excellent website, all kinds of good stories, new stuff every day.

You should always be checking it.

It's showbiz 411.com.

Showbiz 411.com. Rogeriz 411.com Roger Friedman how you doing? Hi. Hey were you at the Oscars? Did you go out there this

year? I was there. I am just back actually from Los Angeles. It's my fourth trip in three months

for an award show, I'm done.

But you've been going to the Oscars for years.

It's a different thing nowadays.

It doesn't have the cachet, the glamour, the glitz that the Oscars did a few years ago, does it?

No.

You know, it's fun to be there.

But, you know, the kinds of movie stars have changed.

So it's not, in the old days, when I first started going about 25 years ago, there was a lottery,

and a lot of the members of the academy could get into the lottery and come.

I used to see Mickey Rooney all the time.

One year I hung out with Catherine Deneuve at the bar.

It was that kind of thing. It was much simpler.

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