Mark interviews Roger Friedman of Showbiz411.
The Mark Simone Show
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4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. |
| 0:03.3 | His website, you should check it every day. |
| 0:05.3 | There's always good stories. |
| 0:06.5 | It's showbiz 411.com. |
| 0:09.8 | Showbiz 411.com. |
| 0:12.7 | Roger Friedman, how you doing? |
| 0:15.1 | I'm great. |
| 0:15.8 | It was fun seeing you last night, Mark. |
| 0:17.7 | Well, last night was, you know, there was Elaine's, the great celebrity restaurant for 50 years. |
| 0:22.6 | Last night was the reunion of Elaine's, the customers, the crowd. |
| 0:27.6 | But it was the 15th anniversary of Elaine's passing, which she would be 95, I think, or 96. |
| 0:35.0 | But it's amazing the 15 years have gone by and the place where they had this |
| 0:40.5 | event called Hudson Malone on 53rd Street was packed, just packed with people who'd been to |
| 0:51.5 | Elaine's, An amazing situation. |
| 0:54.9 | She would have been so thrilled to see all those people in there, |
| 0:58.1 | toasting her and, you know, just having a good time. |
| 1:01.7 | Except, well, great crowd. |
| 1:03.4 | But, you know, we had seen these people 20 years ago, 25 years. |
| 1:06.9 | They looked a lot older, a lot of these people. |
| 1:09.0 | It was kind of an old crowd we didn't look any |
| 1:12.8 | no but they did but uh hey uh people always ask the same thing elains you could go in there |
| 1:19.5 | any night and it was filled with famous faces celebrities movie stars all these major media |
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