January 9, 2026 • 11 mins
The film "Marty Supreme" has enjoyed an impressive run at the box office in 2025. Roger also shares his perspective as a close entertainment insider on the legal issues surrounding Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, and his convictions and charges. Additionally, singer Bruno Mars has announced a major stadium tour across the USA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is to the Mark Somemon Show. I'm seventen w R.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, we'll talk to Roger in a moment. We're all
hunting for him as we as we speak. Little controversy
yesterday the Health and Human Services, you know, the Robert F.
Kennedy and doctor Oz was there, Brooke Rollins for this thing.
They redid the food pyramid. I don't know if it's
good or bad. But do you know anybody actually looks
(00:29):
at this food pyramid? Do you know anybody that follows
the before you eat these say, let me check that
food pyramid. So they want you to eat more protein.
The good part is less sugar. That's the good part.
We'll get back to that anyway. But Roger Friedman, the
great entertainment reporter. His website, you should check it every day.
There's always great stories. Showbiz for one dot com, Showbiz
(00:49):
for one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing. I'm great,
Good morning, How are you good? Hey? We haven't talked
to a couple of weeks. I got to catch up
on a few things. One Marty Supreme. They talked about
it as the biggest movie of the year. It's doing okay,
but it's it's doing great. Did you see that I
used your picture? Yeah, and I featured you. I know
(01:12):
it was great. I actually knew the real Marty Supreme, who,
by the way, had nothing to do with this movie.
He was the ping pong champion. But this stuff with
the shot inspired by him. The idea movie is inspired
by him. Yeah, but with the chasing, the women, the gangsters,
the shootings, the car chases, none of that really happened
with him. He was actually a pretty boring guy in
(01:33):
real life. But I'm looking at the box office. It's
always like number two or three. It's not like number
one every week.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, you know, Avatar is out, so that's like the
big commercial movie at the moment. But Marty Supreme is
up to like sixteen million dollars. I think after just
a couple of weeks. That's great. Are you kidding? Okay,
that's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a great. Yeah, I mean it's actually great. Everybody
should go see it. When does it start streaming because
some people wait for that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh it's not. It's a sixty one million. That's fantastic
after twenty days. In the first few days were not
really they were just in two theaters. No it's doing great.
It won't be streaming for a long time. It's got
to get through the awards season. You know, Tomorrow Sunday
night is the Golden Globes. This past weekend was the
(02:27):
Critics Choice Awards, which he won Timothy Challamey. And then
we're gonna have the Golden Globes. Then we're gonna have
Oscar nominations. Then we're gonna have things like the SAG Awards,
and then finally the Oscars on March fifteenth. I don't
think you'll see Marty Supreme streaming until after March fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, it is, but that's.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Not bad it. Eventually it'll get there. But the two
big movies of this Oscar season are Marty Supreme in
one battle after another and they're going to battle for
the Oscar. And I think one battle will win the
Oscar and mart and Timothy Chalmer will win the Best
Actor Award.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It is. It is a great movie. Everybody should go
see Marty SUPREMEU love it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's a great movie. And it's funny because after you
said you knew him and you had pictures, a few
other people turned up in the papers saying that they
had known him also, And one of them was Tina Brown,
whose husband, Harry Evans, the famous editor, was sort of
like my mentor. And I had no idea that Marty
(03:33):
Riceman had written a second book that was never been published,
and he wanted Harry Evans to publish at a random house.
So he kept going to and Harry put a ping
pong table in his basement on fifty seventh Street, and
Marty was going over there and playing ping pong to
the discuss of Tita Brown, who didn't like him and
(03:53):
didn't want him in her house, but Harry loved it.
And all they did was play ping pong night and day.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, he was an incredible ping pong player. Otherwise kind
of a dull and annoying sort of a guy, kind
of a little sleepy.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You could sort of see that in the movie. Actually,
you consider to see as he got older, this would
wear thin, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, it was. You know that the behavior is cute
when you're twenty two, when you're fifty two, right, that's cute.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The other thing we haven't talked about, tell us about
what you know about Nick Reiner, Rob Reiner, the whole situation.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know anything more than you do. It's such
a tragic story because Rob Reiner, who I knew, and
his wife Michelle, who I also knew, were just the
greatest people. And apparently they were living with this incredible
catastrophe in their house and didn't really know what to do,
and they were doing the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Best they could.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And I thought, well, just you know, keep giving him
money and love and it'll turn around. And obviously the
kid was really sick. So now he's lost his lawyer.
His lawyer withdrew from the case this week and he's
going to have a public defender. And the lawyer didn't
say why, but my guess is that the brother and
(05:11):
sisters would not pay for the defense. This lawyer, his
name is Alan Jackson, probably costs one thousand dollars an
hour or whatever. And if you it's a tragic thing.
Can you imagine that your sibling kills your parents and
then comes to you and says, will you pay for
my defense? And what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And I think that probably they've decided they're not going
to pay for the defense. Anyway. He's going to wind
up in a mental hospital some kind, and they're going
to plead insanity and and it's horrible. He's ruined all
of their lives.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Apparently, apparently he's officially been diagnosed with being a schizophrenic,
and a couple of criminal lawyers told me, you have
to withdraw because you can't deal with schizophrenics as a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Also, you need two lawyers. Actually, right, is it too
soon for jokes?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But now apparently the family has said they do not
want the death penalty. They've asked the DA and the.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
D they don't want the death penalty for their brother.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, but the DA has said the wishes of the
family will be a paramount to his decision, so they
will not seek the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
No, he's going to go to jail for the rest
of his life and he'll probably he'll die in jail,
and maybe it'll be a hospital jail because he's you know,
obviously very very very sick guy. But what he's done
is just it's unforgivable. They'll never be able to forgive
him for this, and it must be the winding down
of any state when a person is older is a
(06:43):
very difficult thing. That you realize that Rob Bryer was
at the height of his career, so this must be
for these kids to have to deal with this now
is just the worst thing ever. It's unimaginable.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Hey, let's talk about Bruno Mars. It was always a
very big deal, but somehow he got hotter than ever
and now he's announced he's going to play stadiums. How
did he get so much hotter all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, he's been hot for a while.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
He had this huge hit with Lady Gaga over the
last year. It's a massive hit. It's called Die with
a Smile. It's a ballad and it's actually the biggest
record of the last year and a half. So that
really helped him. He also had a hit with one
of the young women from Black Pink and the Korean
pop so it really reignited. These two things really reignited him.
(07:32):
So he's made a new album that's coming out of
February twenty seventh, and last night he dropped a new
single and he's apparently in a fight online with one
of his fans who said on Twitter. The fan said,
this guy puts out the same song all the time
and no one ever says anything, and Bertobars attacked him
(07:54):
personally back on Twitter, which was hilarious. But I have
to say the song, which I can't remember. I think
it's called It Just Might, and it's a dance song
and it's fun. It sounds exactly like Leo Sayer's You
Make Me Feel Like Dancing. It's the exact same song.
And this is not the first time Bruno Mars has
(08:16):
done this. He did their song early in his career.
I can't rye the name of it. It sounded like
the Police w Sting. Every time I started playing, you thought, oh,
this is the Police. Bruno Mars is very good at
sort of copying other people's styles and then adding a
little bit of something else to make it sound new.
But he's fun, you know, he's a fun guy. He
(08:37):
has a great voice, and I don't mind him doing that.
And Sting said at the time, I don't care, do
whatever you want. I don't know what Leo Sayer will
say when he hears this, but I played it. It
dropped on Spotify about twelve thirty last night, and I said,
I'd better listen to this, and I'm like, this sounds
like something I know very much. So but he's but Bruno,
(08:58):
let's see, is he I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Is that a hit?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Probably it's probably number one, because you know, his people
don't even know who leos Aa was. Yeah, you know,
his fans they have no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, he had a bunch of hits mid seventies. Is
he still alive? I assuming of.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Course he is. You know, I'll tell you. I'll tell
you something about Bruno Mars that is smart. They booked
him this big tour. It's number six. They booked him
this big tour. But he's not going out on his own,
which is really smart. He's going out with four other
R and B stars, this girl Ray and Leon Thomas.
And this is what you have to do now because
(09:35):
people cannot fill these stadiums at these prices, so the
tickets are so jacked up. And you've seen a lot
of calamities of tours where you know there's like large
empty areas of stadiums. So I think that it's Bruno Marster.
I really want to see it, this Bruno Mars tour.
I think it's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, you could have large empty areas if you're met
life jets are used to it. Giants are used to it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The areas well, the giants maybe you're picking up some
steam now, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's when you know you're bad when you when when
you go four and thirteen they think it was a
great season. You know you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So you know you're only good as you're only as
good as your last game.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah. Well, Roger Friedman, great stuff. Check out his website.
And then there's new stories every day Showbiz four week.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I just put up a story. I just put up
a story about the Golden Globes, which are this Sunday,
and how it's changed. There's used to be all these
great Golden Globe parties and of course it's all everything
is diminished now. And if you want to read, I
think it's a pretty fun story to read about all
the Golden Globe stories on Golden Globe parties I've been
(10:44):
to all right.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, go to Showbiz for one one dot com. Showbiz
for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being
with us.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I take care. Hey, don't forget Noon Today, Buck and Clay.
I love their show every day from noon to three.
Then you got the most to radio show in America.
Sean Hannity Big exclusive interview with President Trump. He'll be
talking about that, and then Jesse Kelly at six and
when a great show. You should hear this every night
at nine, Jimmy Fayla on seven ten Woir
This is to the Mark Somemon Show. I'm seventen w R.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, we'll talk to Roger in a moment. We're all
hunting for him as we as we speak. Little controversy
yesterday the Health and Human Services, you know, the Robert F.
Kennedy and doctor Oz was there, Brooke Rollins for this thing.
They redid the food pyramid. I don't know if it's
good or bad. But do you know anybody actually looks
(00:29):
at this food pyramid? Do you know anybody that follows
the before you eat these say, let me check that
food pyramid. So they want you to eat more protein.
The good part is less sugar. That's the good part.
We'll get back to that anyway. But Roger Friedman, the
great entertainment reporter. His website, you should check it every day.
There's always great stories. Showbiz for one dot com, Showbiz
(00:49):
for one dot com. Roger Friedman, how you doing. I'm great,
Good morning, How are you good? Hey? We haven't talked
to a couple of weeks. I got to catch up
on a few things. One Marty Supreme. They talked about
it as the biggest movie of the year. It's doing okay,
but it's it's doing great. Did you see that I
used your picture? Yeah, and I featured you. I know
(01:12):
it was great. I actually knew the real Marty Supreme, who,
by the way, had nothing to do with this movie.
He was the ping pong champion. But this stuff with
the shot inspired by him. The idea movie is inspired
by him. Yeah, but with the chasing, the women, the gangsters,
the shootings, the car chases, none of that really happened
with him. He was actually a pretty boring guy in
(01:33):
real life. But I'm looking at the box office. It's
always like number two or three. It's not like number
one every week.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well, you know, Avatar is out, so that's like the
big commercial movie at the moment. But Marty Supreme is
up to like sixteen million dollars. I think after just
a couple of weeks. That's great. Are you kidding? Okay,
that's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a great. Yeah, I mean it's actually great. Everybody
should go see it. When does it start streaming because
some people wait for that.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Oh it's not. It's a sixty one million. That's fantastic
after twenty days. In the first few days were not
really they were just in two theaters. No it's doing great.
It won't be streaming for a long time. It's got
to get through the awards season. You know, Tomorrow Sunday
night is the Golden Globes. This past weekend was the
(02:27):
Critics Choice Awards, which he won Timothy Challamey. And then
we're gonna have the Golden Globes. Then we're gonna have
Oscar nominations. Then we're gonna have things like the SAG Awards,
and then finally the Oscars on March fifteenth. I don't
think you'll see Marty Supreme streaming until after March fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, it is, but that's.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Not bad it. Eventually it'll get there. But the two
big movies of this Oscar season are Marty Supreme in
one battle after another and they're going to battle for
the Oscar. And I think one battle will win the
Oscar and mart and Timothy Chalmer will win the Best
Actor Award.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It is. It is a great movie. Everybody should go
see Marty SUPREMEU love it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's a great movie. And it's funny because after you
said you knew him and you had pictures, a few
other people turned up in the papers saying that they
had known him also, And one of them was Tina Brown,
whose husband, Harry Evans, the famous editor, was sort of
like my mentor. And I had no idea that Marty
(03:33):
Riceman had written a second book that was never been published,
and he wanted Harry Evans to publish at a random house.
So he kept going to and Harry put a ping
pong table in his basement on fifty seventh Street, and
Marty was going over there and playing ping pong to
the discuss of Tita Brown, who didn't like him and
(03:53):
didn't want him in her house, but Harry loved it.
And all they did was play ping pong night and day.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, he was an incredible ping pong player. Otherwise kind
of a dull and annoying sort of a guy, kind
of a little sleepy.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You could sort of see that in the movie. Actually,
you consider to see as he got older, this would
wear thin, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, it was. You know that the behavior is cute
when you're twenty two, when you're fifty two, right, that's cute.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The other thing we haven't talked about, tell us about
what you know about Nick Reiner, Rob Reiner, the whole situation.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know anything more than you do. It's such
a tragic story because Rob Reiner, who I knew, and
his wife Michelle, who I also knew, were just the
greatest people. And apparently they were living with this incredible
catastrophe in their house and didn't really know what to do,
and they were doing the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Best they could.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And I thought, well, just you know, keep giving him
money and love and it'll turn around. And obviously the
kid was really sick. So now he's lost his lawyer.
His lawyer withdrew from the case this week and he's
going to have a public defender. And the lawyer didn't
say why, but my guess is that the brother and
(05:11):
sisters would not pay for the defense. This lawyer, his
name is Alan Jackson, probably costs one thousand dollars an
hour or whatever. And if you it's a tragic thing.
Can you imagine that your sibling kills your parents and
then comes to you and says, will you pay for
my defense? And what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And I think that probably they've decided they're not going
to pay for the defense. Anyway. He's going to wind
up in a mental hospital some kind, and they're going
to plead insanity and and it's horrible. He's ruined all
of their lives.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Apparently, apparently he's officially been diagnosed with being a schizophrenic,
and a couple of criminal lawyers told me, you have
to withdraw because you can't deal with schizophrenics as a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Also, you need two lawyers. Actually, right, is it too
soon for jokes?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But now apparently the family has said they do not
want the death penalty. They've asked the DA and the.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
D they don't want the death penalty for their brother.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, but the DA has said the wishes of the
family will be a paramount to his decision, so they
will not seek the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
No, he's going to go to jail for the rest
of his life and he'll probably he'll die in jail,
and maybe it'll be a hospital jail because he's you know,
obviously very very very sick guy. But what he's done
is just it's unforgivable. They'll never be able to forgive
him for this, and it must be the winding down
of any state when a person is older is a
(06:43):
very difficult thing. That you realize that Rob Bryer was
at the height of his career, so this must be
for these kids to have to deal with this now
is just the worst thing ever. It's unimaginable.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Hey, let's talk about Bruno Mars. It was always a
very big deal, but somehow he got hotter than ever
and now he's announced he's going to play stadiums. How
did he get so much hotter all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, he's been hot for a while.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
He had this huge hit with Lady Gaga over the
last year. It's a massive hit. It's called Die with
a Smile. It's a ballad and it's actually the biggest
record of the last year and a half. So that
really helped him. He also had a hit with one
of the young women from Black Pink and the Korean
pop so it really reignited. These two things really reignited him.
(07:32):
So he's made a new album that's coming out of
February twenty seventh, and last night he dropped a new
single and he's apparently in a fight online with one
of his fans who said on Twitter. The fan said,
this guy puts out the same song all the time
and no one ever says anything, and Bertobars attacked him
(07:54):
personally back on Twitter, which was hilarious. But I have
to say the song, which I can't remember. I think
it's called It Just Might, and it's a dance song
and it's fun. It sounds exactly like Leo Sayer's You
Make Me Feel Like Dancing. It's the exact same song.
And this is not the first time Bruno Mars has
(08:16):
done this. He did their song early in his career.
I can't rye the name of it. It sounded like
the Police w Sting. Every time I started playing, you thought, oh,
this is the Police. Bruno Mars is very good at
sort of copying other people's styles and then adding a
little bit of something else to make it sound new.
But he's fun, you know, he's a fun guy. He
(08:37):
has a great voice, and I don't mind him doing that.
And Sting said at the time, I don't care, do
whatever you want. I don't know what Leo Sayer will
say when he hears this, but I played it. It
dropped on Spotify about twelve thirty last night, and I said,
I'd better listen to this, and I'm like, this sounds
like something I know very much. So but he's but Bruno,
(08:58):
let's see, is he I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Is that a hit?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Probably it's probably number one, because you know, his people
don't even know who leos Aa was. Yeah, you know,
his fans they have no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No, he had a bunch of hits mid seventies. Is
he still alive? I assuming of.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Course he is. You know, I'll tell you. I'll tell
you something about Bruno Mars that is smart. They booked
him this big tour. It's number six. They booked him
this big tour. But he's not going out on his own,
which is really smart. He's going out with four other
R and B stars, this girl Ray and Leon Thomas.
And this is what you have to do now because
(09:35):
people cannot fill these stadiums at these prices, so the
tickets are so jacked up. And you've seen a lot
of calamities of tours where you know there's like large
empty areas of stadiums. So I think that it's Bruno Marster.
I really want to see it, this Bruno Mars tour.
I think it's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, you could have large empty areas if you're met
life jets are used to it. Giants are used to it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The areas well, the giants maybe you're picking up some
steam now, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's when you know you're bad when you when when
you go four and thirteen they think it was a
great season. You know you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
So you know you're only good as you're only as
good as your last game.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah. Well, Roger Friedman, great stuff. Check out his website.
And then there's new stories every day Showbiz four week.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I just put up a story. I just put up
a story about the Golden Globes, which are this Sunday,
and how it's changed. There's used to be all these
great Golden Globe parties and of course it's all everything
is diminished now. And if you want to read, I
think it's a pretty fun story to read about all
the Golden Globe stories on Golden Globe parties I've been
(10:44):
to all right.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, go to Showbiz for one one dot com. Showbiz
for one one dot com. Roger Friedman, thanks for being
with us.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I take care. Hey, don't forget Noon Today, Buck and Clay.
I love their show every day from noon to three.
Then you got the most to radio show in America.
Sean Hannity Big exclusive interview with President Trump. He'll be
talking about that, and then Jesse Kelly at six and
when a great show. You should hear this every night
at nine, Jimmy Fayla on seven ten Woir
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