You searched for friars club - Showbiz411 https://www.showbiz411.com/ Exclusive Hollywood News in Movies, Music, Broadway and Celebrity Headlines Mon, 01 Jan 2024 02:50:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://www.showbiz411.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-sbiz-1-32x32.jpg You searched for friars club - Showbiz411 https://www.showbiz411.com/ 32 32 “Hollywood Squares” Host Peter Marshall Calls Old Friend Shecky Greene “Best Comic Ever” https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/12/31/hollywood-squares-host-peter-marshall-calls-old-friend-shecky-greene-best-comic-ever https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/12/31/hollywood-squares-host-peter-marshall-calls-old-friend-shecky-greene-best-comic-ever#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 02:50:56 +0000 https://www.showbiz411.com/?p=108196 Shecky Greene defined the notion of the Catskills comic on “Ed Sullivan.” How many times has someone been called “a real Shecky Greene”? It’s a term of endearment if you’re trying to be a wise guy or a jokester. There are a ton of tributes to Shecky today on the internet. He was 97! Few […]

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]]> https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/12/31/hollywood-squares-host-peter-marshall-calls-old-friend-shecky-greene-best-comic-ever/feed 0 Friars Club, Dead Anyway, In Brutal Financial Loss: Arbitrator Awards Former CEO $1.4 Mil Despite Past Crimes https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/08/24/friars-club-dead-anyway-in-brutal-financial-loss-arbitrator-awards-former-ceo-1-4-mil-despite-past-crimes https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/08/24/friars-club-dead-anyway-in-brutal-financial-loss-arbitrator-awards-former-ceo-1-4-mil-despite-past-crimes#respond Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:24:57 +0000 https://www.showbiz411.com/?p=104034 EXCLUSIVE Years of poor character judgement and mismanagement have cost the already-dead Friars Club $1.4 million. An arbitrator has awarded the club’s former CEO Michael Gyure $1.4 million including legal fees in a case filed three years ago. The Friars Club was already under water, trying to sell its storied headquarters on East 55th Street […]

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]]> https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/05/06/review-episode-6-of-mrs-maisel-is-a-clever-tribute-to-the-friars-club-and-to-woody-allens-broadway-danny-rose/feed 0 Friars Club Selling Historic Building Because They Have To: They’re in Foreclosure, Being Sued for $13 Million by Loaner, Inspection Cites Massive “Disrepair” https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/04/28/friars-club-selling-historic-building-because-they-have-to-theyre-in-foreclosure-being-sued-for-13-million-by-loaner-inspection-cites-massive-disrepair https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/04/28/friars-club-selling-historic-building-because-they-have-to-theyre-in-foreclosure-being-sued-for-13-million-by-loaner-inspection-cites-massive-disrepair#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:24:18 +0000 https://www.showbiz411.com/?p=100590 This week, the Friars Club told the New York Post they’re selling their legendary building on East 55th St. without telling the whole story. I wrote two weeks ago that the Friars are being sued for their $13 million mortgage loan. According to the Post, they’re seeking $18 million, so they can reap a $5 […]

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]]> https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/25/friars-club-gets-one-last-lick-in-with-marvelous-mrs-maisel-episode-showing-lapsed-trademark-raunchy-roast/feed 0 Friars Club Death Worse Than Thought: Lost Trademark Rights to Logo, Lost Battles with NLRB Over Former Staff Issues https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/17/friars-club-death-worse-than-thought-lost-trademark-rights-to-logo-lost-battles-with-nlrb-over-former-staff-issues https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/17/friars-club-death-worse-than-thought-lost-trademark-rights-to-logo-lost-battles-with-nlrb-over-former-staff-issues#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:15:38 +0000 https://www.showbiz411.com/?p=99491 Following up on my original story from last night about the Friars Club. Things are worse than thought. Not only is the club padlocked shut and closed. In December they lost the trademark right to their longstanding logo. According to websites that cover trademark news: “The current status of the PRAE OMNIA FRATERNITAS FRIARS CLUB […]

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]]> https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/17/friars-club-death-worse-than-thought-lost-trademark-rights-to-logo-lost-battles-with-nlrb-over-former-staff-issues/feed 0 Sad Obit: The Friars Club is Padlocked Shut, Closed After Years of Mismanagement and Malfeasance Comes End of Era https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/16/sad-obit-the-friars-club-is-padlocked-shut-closed-after-years-of-mismanagement-and-malfeasance-comes-end-of-era https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/16/sad-obit-the-friars-club-is-padlocked-shut-closed-after-years-of-mismanagement-and-malfeasance-comes-end-of-era#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:53:25 +0000 https://www.showbiz411.com/?p=99464 The Friars Club is closed. It’s padlocked shut with a gate blocking the entrance. In truth, the Friars Club has been gone for years. All that remains is the 1957 “monastery” built into a classic townhouse(originally constructed in 1904) at 57 East 55th Street, a grim tombstone to remember the halcyon years of Alan King, […]

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