October 7, 2025 • 11 mins
Taylor Swift is a marketing genius and is expected to sell many more "The Life of a Showgirl" albums this week. Singer Bad Bunny will do well, according to Roger, at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Blogged into Everything New York. I'm the voice of New York.
Mark Simon on seven ten war Well.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Roger Friedman, The Great Entertainment Reporter is a website. You
should check it every day. There's always new stuff up there.
Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for one one
dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm okay? Are you? Have you been talking politics this morning? No?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We never talked politics.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, Mark, who you're voting for? From mayor?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh? I love that mom, Donnie. He's great, don't you
think you know?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's just I just have to say before we get
into a conversation about Hollywood, which I want to do
because I saw a great movie last night, everyone's gonna love. Uh,
this cannot go on with mom, Donnie. And you know
his mother is a film director and she's a wonderful person.
Let me tell you. I know her and she's a
great lady. But this is not acceptable. And I'm voting
(00:59):
for a Cuomo despite all of his baggage. And I
just wanted to say to the your listeners, I'm going
to say this four more times this month to make
sure everyone knows. Please vote for Andrew Cromourt Okay, I'm
not going to vote for Curtis, but I like him
a lot. Okay, yeah, I like him. I like his spirit.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
This mom, Donnie mother, the filmmaker, she they seemed to
have a lot, A great person, but how successful. I'm
not familiar with her film. I mean she's near and naiyear.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh she made a monsoon wedding. She's made great movies. Oh,
the Namesake is a movie I adore. She's a great filmmaker.
And if you met her and you would say she's
a fabulous person. She's not anti Semitics, she's not any
of these things. But regardless of how much I love
the mother, I just have to say, the son really
(01:51):
should find another job.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
All right, Well, okay, they sound like great films. They're
not Casino or Goodfellows, but they sound like good No.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
She made she's made great films, and she's she's very
well liked and everyone should be nice to her.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And well, you know, we'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And I'm glad that her son wants a job. But
this isn't really We're going to go a different.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Way, ay, but let's talk about something more important. Taylor Swift,
how success, my god, how successful? Was this album in numbers,
in actual metrics.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, so they're saying that she sold. They're saying that
she's going to sell through Friday three million albums or
maybe more, maybe four million. A lot of that is
from streaming. It's not from CBS, although a lot will
be from CBS. LPs, cassettes.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wait, wait, wait, you can buy a CD. I didn't
even know they still existed.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh but you can. People buy CBS all the time,
and in fact they're popular again I heard, and LPs
are popular. And for some reason, Taylor Swift sells cassettes.
I have no idea what people play them on. But
so she sold a lot of records. Then on Apple,
on iTunes, she's made it so that the album can
(02:59):
only be bought in whole. You cannot buy a single
from it. It's only the whole album. And now she's
made the whole album four ninety nine because she wants
to break records so that, you know, people will buy
so many copies of four ninety nine. A regular iTunes
download is like eleven ninety nine. So they're doing every
(03:20):
they're bending over backwards to get break records. Here Adele
with her twenty five album in twenty fifteen, she sold
I think three point four million, So they're trying to
break that record and they'll do anything they can to
do it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now, did she also release like an extended album with
all sorts of extra stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, she's got four more CDs that you can buy
in addition to this that are eight dollars apiece. And
they would add on to the sales. They keep looking
every day, they add on some new thing to build.
These teenage girls, I have to say, they deserve to
be at the Wharton School of Business or at Harvard
at NBA. They should be studying Taylor Swift's marketing. It
(04:04):
is absolutely genius. Well your life thing I have. The
negative thing I have to say about Taylor Swift is
that several of the songs sound like other people's songs,
and the fans immediately discovered this on Friday when the
album came out. And one of the songs is the
title song of the album is called The Life of
(04:25):
a Showgirl is a direct ripoff of a Jonas Brothers
song called Cool. You listen to it and you think, well,
how does she get away with this? I don't know how,
don't know how she's going to get away with it.
But it's very weird. The whole thing with this album
seems to be more about having success with it than
making it a good album, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah. Now she's also got everything else, sweaters, mittens, t
shirts righty, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yes, she's very big on sweaters. You can buy a
Taylor Swift cardigan. It says it's emblazoned with the letters
TS on it. I guess you could say it's Times Square.
I don't know. I mean, she's selling everything on her website,
anything that isn't nailed down as being sold for Taylor Swift.
And you try to imagine that back in our heyday
(05:14):
that Joni Mitchell or Carol cam or Carly Simon would
do didn't do anything like this. They just put out
records that have lasted fifty years, but they didn't you
know that. You couldn't buy key chains or anything else
that I know of. So it's very strange the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, But of question, it was a different world then.
All you had was radio and TV. You didn't have
the Internet, you didn't have social you didn't have any
of that stuff. That's true, So, hey, a lot of
controversy over Bad Bunny. But you know, I watched him
on Saturday Night Live. He's kind of a charming guy,
that Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He's very charming. Yeah, he's very charming and he's a
lot of fun. He'll make a great super Bowl show.
He's going to make a great show. I don't know what.
I don't know why people got so excited about.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Because he said horrible things about political stuff, but.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well he didn't. He doesn't want to tour the country
because he doesn't want his fans to be arrested during
the shows. Yeah, which is a legitimate concern. But but
he is Puerto Rican and you know Puerto Ricans are
actually American.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're kidding? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
No did you know? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thing was my Oh? But how big is he? I mean,
I've heard of him, I've heard his music. But for
the super Bowl, aren't you supposed to be like Michael
Jackson Taylor Swift kind of big?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh? He's already sold. He put out an album last January.
It's sold almost three million copies since then. This that's
just that album altogether this year of twenty twenty five,
and it's only October or whatever it is. Seventh. He
sold about five million records this year, so he's hugely popular.
(06:50):
And he just in Puerto Rico. He just did this,
you know, thirty day residency in one of their you know,
spectacular show places. People to the States were flying there
to see it. So it was sold out every night.
Oh yeah, it was like the hot ticket was going
to Puerto Rico to see Bad Bunny. So you know,
he's going to have a great super Bowl show. Everyone
(07:12):
should be happy with him when he does it. They're
all going to say, like, like, remember when Ricky Martin
did the Grammys twenty years ago. He did with a
LaVita loca and people were like, who is this guy?
Everyone fell in love with him. That's what Bad Bunny
will be like on the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's pretty good. You know, you go back you look
at the original Super Bowl. The halftime was like Anty
Williams or people.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Let's not knock Andy Williams. Oh he was a great guy.
He was a lovely guy. Now, last night I went
to this movie at the New York Film Festival. It
was the surprise screening of the festival, except by the
time you got there there was no secret. Even the
I said even the hot dog vendors knew what was
going on, but the place was packed and it was
(07:56):
for a new movie starring Timothy Tallome. And the movie
is called Marty Supreme.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh yeah, it's about Marty Reesman. I actually knew the guy.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Did you know him very well? Yeah, you knew him.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, it's about Marty a ping kong player. What he
was the world champion ping pong player of all time? Yes,
And Marty Supreme is the movie and that's going to
debut in Christmas Day, I think. But what was how good?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He is fabulous. It's an A plus movie. It's four stars,
it's everything. It was so great. So it's such exciting
filmmaking by Josh Safty and Challame is going to probably
get the Oscar for Best Actor. Was the was the
real guy a fast talker, like a Damon Runyon kind
of character.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's a real Damon Runyon captain. And he talked like
this and he was yeah, that was him.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well he's got it. He's Timothy Challome is twenty nine
years old, he'll be thirty in December. He has nailed
this thing down. And I'm telling you, it's so exciting
and everyone in the cast is great. I'll tell your
friend Sure plays his mother, which is really funny. She's terrific.
Santra Bernhardt's and oh, two of your friends are in it. Yeah, yeah,
(09:07):
John Catsimatidis.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And you know why John's in Terrific?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know why? Did he know him too?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah? In real life he was actually his landlord. He
owned the building where Marty's had.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow, they didn't tell us this last night because we
only saw the movie. But John Cassimatidas, who looks great
on screen by the way, he's he should be doing
character acting in every movie. Yeah, he's fabulous. And Kevin
O'Leary from Shark Tank, Yeah, has has a big part
in the movie, and he's terrific. He really holds his own.
(09:41):
He's really played a nasty guy. He's married in the
movie to Gwyneth Paltrow who plays sort of a has
been movie star, and he's the rich guy who married
her and now she can't get away from him. And
it's a subplot in the movie. It's very good. And
there's a new girl in there, who Odessa as i On,
(10:01):
who's going to get a nomination for Best Supporting after
she's terrific. Oh, so the movie is going to be spectacular.
But I'm so impressed that two knew him.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh yeah, I'll in fact, when we get off, I'll
send you some pictures of me and him, Marty Supreme,
his real name was Marty Reesman. And so you would say,
next year this could be one of the biggest films
of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, you know. Right now we have one battle after
another with Leonardo Dicaffrio on Sean Pan which is really
sort of on the fast track for the best picture,
but this one is going to give it a lot
of trouble. This we're going to have a real race
in February and March for the Oscars. Well, great, it's
going to be great.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Great stuff. We're out of time, but everybody go check
out Roger Friedman's website. You can read the review of
the movie. Go to Showbiz for one one dot com,
Showbiz for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for
being with us. Thank you, take care, hey, and don't
forget to Buck and Clay coming up at noon today
right after right after the News at noon. Then you
got the just listen to radio show in America Sean
(11:02):
Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly six o'clock, and then we
got a great new show every night at nine Jimmy
Fayla nine at midnight on seven ten WR
Blogged into Everything New York. I'm the voice of New York.
Mark Simon on seven ten war Well.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Roger Friedman, The Great Entertainment Reporter is a website. You
should check it every day. There's always new stuff up there.
Showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for one one
dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm okay? Are you? Have you been talking politics this morning? No?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We never talked politics.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, Mark, who you're voting for? From mayor?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh? I love that mom, Donnie. He's great, don't you
think you know?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's just I just have to say before we get
into a conversation about Hollywood, which I want to do
because I saw a great movie last night, everyone's gonna love. Uh,
this cannot go on with mom, Donnie. And you know
his mother is a film director and she's a wonderful person.
Let me tell you. I know her and she's a
great lady. But this is not acceptable. And I'm voting
(00:59):
for a Cuomo despite all of his baggage. And I
just wanted to say to the your listeners, I'm going
to say this four more times this month to make
sure everyone knows. Please vote for Andrew Cromourt Okay, I'm
not going to vote for Curtis, but I like him
a lot. Okay, yeah, I like him. I like his spirit.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
This mom, Donnie mother, the filmmaker, she they seemed to
have a lot, A great person, but how successful. I'm
not familiar with her film. I mean she's near and naiyear.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh she made a monsoon wedding. She's made great movies. Oh,
the Namesake is a movie I adore. She's a great filmmaker.
And if you met her and you would say she's
a fabulous person. She's not anti Semitics, she's not any
of these things. But regardless of how much I love
the mother, I just have to say, the son really
(01:51):
should find another job.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
All right, Well, okay, they sound like great films. They're
not Casino or Goodfellows, but they sound like good No.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
She made she's made great films, and she's she's very
well liked and everyone should be nice to her.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And well, you know, we'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And I'm glad that her son wants a job. But
this isn't really We're going to go a different.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Way, ay, but let's talk about something more important. Taylor Swift,
how success, my god, how successful? Was this album in numbers,
in actual metrics.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, so they're saying that she sold. They're saying that
she's going to sell through Friday three million albums or
maybe more, maybe four million. A lot of that is
from streaming. It's not from CBS, although a lot will
be from CBS. LPs, cassettes.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wait, wait, wait, you can buy a CD. I didn't
even know they still existed.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh but you can. People buy CBS all the time,
and in fact they're popular again I heard, and LPs
are popular. And for some reason, Taylor Swift sells cassettes.
I have no idea what people play them on. But
so she sold a lot of records. Then on Apple,
on iTunes, she's made it so that the album can
(02:59):
only be bought in whole. You cannot buy a single
from it. It's only the whole album. And now she's
made the whole album four ninety nine because she wants
to break records so that, you know, people will buy
so many copies of four ninety nine. A regular iTunes
download is like eleven ninety nine. So they're doing every
(03:20):
they're bending over backwards to get break records. Here Adele
with her twenty five album in twenty fifteen, she sold
I think three point four million, So they're trying to
break that record and they'll do anything they can to
do it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now, did she also release like an extended album with
all sorts of extra stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, she's got four more CDs that you can buy
in addition to this that are eight dollars apiece. And
they would add on to the sales. They keep looking
every day, they add on some new thing to build.
These teenage girls, I have to say, they deserve to
be at the Wharton School of Business or at Harvard
at NBA. They should be studying Taylor Swift's marketing. It
(04:04):
is absolutely genius. Well your life thing I have. The
negative thing I have to say about Taylor Swift is
that several of the songs sound like other people's songs,
and the fans immediately discovered this on Friday when the
album came out. And one of the songs is the
title song of the album is called The Life of
(04:25):
a Showgirl is a direct ripoff of a Jonas Brothers
song called Cool. You listen to it and you think, well,
how does she get away with this? I don't know how,
don't know how she's going to get away with it.
But it's very weird. The whole thing with this album
seems to be more about having success with it than
making it a good album, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah. Now she's also got everything else, sweaters, mittens, t
shirts righty, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yes, she's very big on sweaters. You can buy a
Taylor Swift cardigan. It says it's emblazoned with the letters
TS on it. I guess you could say it's Times Square.
I don't know. I mean, she's selling everything on her website,
anything that isn't nailed down as being sold for Taylor Swift.
And you try to imagine that back in our heyday
(05:14):
that Joni Mitchell or Carol cam or Carly Simon would
do didn't do anything like this. They just put out
records that have lasted fifty years, but they didn't you
know that. You couldn't buy key chains or anything else
that I know of. So it's very strange the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, But of question, it was a different world then.
All you had was radio and TV. You didn't have
the Internet, you didn't have social you didn't have any
of that stuff. That's true, So, hey, a lot of
controversy over Bad Bunny. But you know, I watched him
on Saturday Night Live. He's kind of a charming guy,
that Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He's very charming. Yeah, he's very charming and he's a
lot of fun. He'll make a great super Bowl show.
He's going to make a great show. I don't know what.
I don't know why people got so excited about.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Because he said horrible things about political stuff, but.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well he didn't. He doesn't want to tour the country
because he doesn't want his fans to be arrested during
the shows. Yeah, which is a legitimate concern. But but
he is Puerto Rican and you know Puerto Ricans are
actually American.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're kidding? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
No did you know? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thing was my Oh? But how big is he? I mean,
I've heard of him, I've heard his music. But for
the super Bowl, aren't you supposed to be like Michael
Jackson Taylor Swift kind of big?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh? He's already sold. He put out an album last January.
It's sold almost three million copies since then. This that's
just that album altogether this year of twenty twenty five,
and it's only October or whatever it is. Seventh. He
sold about five million records this year, so he's hugely popular.
(06:50):
And he just in Puerto Rico. He just did this,
you know, thirty day residency in one of their you know,
spectacular show places. People to the States were flying there
to see it. So it was sold out every night.
Oh yeah, it was like the hot ticket was going
to Puerto Rico to see Bad Bunny. So you know,
he's going to have a great super Bowl show. Everyone
(07:12):
should be happy with him when he does it. They're
all going to say, like, like, remember when Ricky Martin
did the Grammys twenty years ago. He did with a
LaVita loca and people were like, who is this guy?
Everyone fell in love with him. That's what Bad Bunny
will be like on the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's pretty good. You know, you go back you look
at the original Super Bowl. The halftime was like Anty
Williams or people.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Let's not knock Andy Williams. Oh he was a great guy.
He was a lovely guy. Now, last night I went
to this movie at the New York Film Festival. It
was the surprise screening of the festival, except by the
time you got there there was no secret. Even the
I said even the hot dog vendors knew what was
going on, but the place was packed and it was
(07:56):
for a new movie starring Timothy Tallome. And the movie
is called Marty Supreme.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh yeah, it's about Marty Reesman. I actually knew the guy.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Did you know him very well? Yeah, you knew him.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, it's about Marty a ping kong player. What he
was the world champion ping pong player of all time? Yes,
And Marty Supreme is the movie and that's going to
debut in Christmas Day, I think. But what was how good?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He is fabulous. It's an A plus movie. It's four stars,
it's everything. It was so great. So it's such exciting
filmmaking by Josh Safty and Challame is going to probably
get the Oscar for Best Actor. Was the was the
real guy a fast talker, like a Damon Runyon kind
of character.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's a real Damon Runyon captain. And he talked like
this and he was yeah, that was him.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well he's got it. He's Timothy Challome is twenty nine
years old, he'll be thirty in December. He has nailed
this thing down. And I'm telling you, it's so exciting
and everyone in the cast is great. I'll tell your
friend Sure plays his mother, which is really funny. She's terrific.
Santra Bernhardt's and oh, two of your friends are in it. Yeah, yeah,
(09:07):
John Catsimatidis.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And you know why John's in Terrific?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You know why? Did he know him too?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah? In real life he was actually his landlord. He
owned the building where Marty's had.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow, they didn't tell us this last night because we
only saw the movie. But John Cassimatidas, who looks great
on screen by the way, he's he should be doing
character acting in every movie. Yeah, he's fabulous. And Kevin
O'Leary from Shark Tank, Yeah, has has a big part
in the movie, and he's terrific. He really holds his own.
(09:41):
He's really played a nasty guy. He's married in the
movie to Gwyneth Paltrow who plays sort of a has
been movie star, and he's the rich guy who married
her and now she can't get away from him. And
it's a subplot in the movie. It's very good. And
there's a new girl in there, who Odessa as i On,
(10:01):
who's going to get a nomination for Best Supporting after
she's terrific. Oh, so the movie is going to be spectacular.
But I'm so impressed that two knew him.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh yeah, I'll in fact, when we get off, I'll
send you some pictures of me and him, Marty Supreme,
his real name was Marty Reesman. And so you would say,
next year this could be one of the biggest films
of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yes, you know. Right now we have one battle after
another with Leonardo Dicaffrio on Sean Pan which is really
sort of on the fast track for the best picture,
but this one is going to give it a lot
of trouble. This we're going to have a real race
in February and March for the Oscars. Well, great, it's
going to be great.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Great stuff. We're out of time, but everybody go check
out Roger Friedman's website. You can read the review of
the movie. Go to Showbiz for one one dot com,
Showbiz for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for
being with us. Thank you, take care, hey, and don't
forget to Buck and Clay coming up at noon today
right after right after the News at noon. Then you
got the just listen to radio show in America Sean
(11:02):
Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly six o'clock, and then we
got a great new show every night at nine Jimmy
Fayla nine at midnight on seven ten WR
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