Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411.

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Roger and Mark reminisce about the great scenes and movies actor Robert Redford played in. Roger urges everyone to go see a Broadway show, because a third of the audience is tourists from Canada, who haven't been traveling to NYC due to political tensions. This is causing a sharp decline in revenue.

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0:00.0	Now more Mark Simone on 710 WOR.
0:06.2	Well, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter, his website is Showbiz 411.com.
0:12.9	Showbiz 411.com.
0:15.2	New stuff every day.
0:16.8	Check it out.
0:17.7	Roger Friedman, how you doing?
0:20.1	I'm good, but I'm, you know, as most of us, we are mourning the loss today of Robert Redford.
0:25.5	Yeah, good news is...
0:26.8	One of the greatest, you know, people in the history of Hollywood and beloved, created Sundance Film Festival and won Oscars and, you know, just a great environmentalist, just a great
0:41.2	person.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:42.3	The good thing is he died in his sleep, so that's good.
0:44.5	He did not suffer.
0:46.5	He did not.
0:47.1	Well, he did suffer.
0:48.6	He lost his son about five years ago.
0:50.5	His adult son, Jamie, died of cancer.
0:53.7	And it really, it took all the wind out of his
0:56.2	sales. It really knocked him out. And he was quite fragile the last few years. But it's too bad because
1:04.0	he did the most for Hollywood that anyone's done in the last, you know, generations and three or four
1:09.8	generations. And, uh, and so many great movies, the last, you know, generations and three or four generations.
1:16.5	And, uh, and so many great movies, the great Gatsby, the candidate, the way we were,
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