Woody Allen digs up old feud with Warren Beatty
By Roger Friedman HollywoodNews.com: Woody Allen rarely plays his cards so everyone can see them. But in this week’s New Yorker, Allen serves up a rare insight into his own personal slights. In “Will...
View ArticleSir Paul McCartney joins Jonas Brothers, Jerry Seinfeld for White House concert
Hollywoodnews.com: Paul McCartney’s long and winding road apparently will be bringing him to the White House. The former Beatle has agreed to perform in a concert being held in his honor next week...
View ArticlePaul Simon moving solo catalog back to Sony
By Roger Friedman HollywoodNews.com: Paul Simon is going back to Columbia Records. After three decades with Warner Music, Simon tells me he’s moving his whole solo catalog back to Sony/Columbia...
View ArticleJack Nicholson Tells Mike Nichols: “Even Oysters Have Enemies”
By Roger Friedman hollywoodnews.com: Jack Nicholson showed up very late for Mike Nichols’ big AFI tribute last week in Hollywood—he’d been watching the Lakers, of course. Then Nicholson made everyone...
View ArticleWarner Music is destined to remain the industry joke
By Roger Friedman HollywoodNews.com: I’ve got to say, reading Peter Lauria’s account of Fred Goodman’s new book about Warner Music, even I thought I must have been wrong. The book is “Fortune’s Fool,”...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher talks about her upcoming special ‘Wishful Drinking’
By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: Carrie Fisher delighted us on the final day of the TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Saturday where she came to talk up the upcoming HBO special “Wishful...
View ArticlePaul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey to receive Kennedy Center Honors
By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: It’s no surprise to see that Paul McCartney has been selected to receive the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors. A few years back, he was to be honored but had to turn...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ hits HBO tonight
By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: Carrie Fisher has had one helluva life. She’s got a movie star for a mom (Debbie Reynolds) and a famous singer for a dad (Eddie Fisher) and Elizabeth Taylor and...
View Article“American Idol”: guilty of shameless product placement?
By Kim Palacios hollywoodnews.com: At first I thought the “American Idol” contestants were simply too young to remember the origin of songs. But when Jacob Lusk announced during tonight’s episode that...
View ArticlePhilip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield in “Death of a Salesman”
By Roger Friedman HollywoodNews.com: The greatest American play? Quite possibly Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” set in 1949 and revived last night on Broadway in a production that is...
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