roger friedman-related stories
Posted Jan 10th 2007 12:19PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
FOX News TV writer Roger Friedman
is reporting today that Rosie O'Donnell will probably leave
The View when her one-year contract is up. The reason? Backstage tension, of course.
Friedman cites the
it-just-won't-die flap with Donald Trump as one of the last straws in what has become a conflict with the show's matriarch, Barbara Walters. It seems like Walters is playing the two combatants against each other, according to Friedman, and Rosie is surprised that Barbara isn't being more supportive. Hence, once the "school year" is over in June, she'll take her ball and go home.
Continue reading Rosie will probably leave The View, says FOX writer
Posted Mar 20th 2006 8:38PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Talent, Animation, Celebrities, South Park
Roger Friedman of Fox News finds it
hard to believe Isaac Hayes
quit South
Park because he was offended by its
episode making fun of
Scientology.
In this article, he provides a few
pieces of evidence: a snippet from an
Onion A.V. Club interview where Hayes glibly talks about the episode,
saying he didn't mind, and the fact that Friedman himself saw Hayes play "Salty Chocolate Balls" during a
concert that happened after the episode aired.
Then he drops a mini-bombshell: Hayes was not in the
hospital for exhaustion in January; in fact, he
suffered a mild stroke from which he is still recovering. Friedman speculates that Hayes is too busy recovering to
worry about
South Park right now, and that the press release stating he was quitting was done without his
permission. Maybe a missive from Scientology Central? I'm pretty sure we'll find out soon enough.
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