4.4 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, there's this excellent website. |
0:03.0 | Showbiz 411.com. |
0:05.1 | It's run by one of the country's top entertainment reporters. |
0:07.6 | Roger Friedman, you should check it every day because there's always new stuff up there. |
0:11.2 | Showbiz 411.com. |
0:14.0 | Roger Friedman, how you doing? |
0:15.6 | You know, I've had such a great few days on Broadway with opening nights of shows that I'm doing great, |
0:23.4 | despite the economy tanking and the world falling apart. |
0:27.1 | World War III is coming, but Broadway is back. |
0:30.6 | Now, let me ask you something. |
0:31.8 | I loved the movie, Mr. Saturday Night, one of my favorite movies, |
0:35.2 | but that's because I love 1950s and 60s showbiz history. |
0:39.4 | Most people don't, and the movie bombed. The Broadway show opens, it's a huge hit. Explain to us, |
0:45.2 | because you wrote a great piece about it, what he did to turn it around. You know, Billy Crystal is a genius. |
0:52.2 | I just think he's fabulous. And New York audiences, this show is made for us. |
0:57.6 | I mean, the place is packed. |
0:59.6 | And some people said it's a very Jewish show. |
1:02.3 | But, you know, there were so many people in the theater who weren't Jewish. |
1:05.0 | And they were all laughing. |
1:06.6 | And there's a lot of Yiddish in the show. |
1:09.7 | There's a lot of Yiddish joke. show. There's a lot of Yiddish joke. |
1:11.4 | But the thing that Billy Crystal did and the writers, Bob Ballou, Mandel and Lowell Gans, |
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