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Friends Newsletters #5
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Friends Newsletters
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Jul 23, 2006 20:24 PDT
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F*R*I*E*N*D*S NEWSLETTERS
Newsletter # 5 Volume # 11
http://come.to/FriendsNews
Contents:
News
Matthew Perry & Aaron Sorkin Joke About Drugs
Jennifer Aniston Bares All ... Almost
Matthew Perry Finds Work
News
How's it going all? I know it's been awhile but as you can probably
guess there hasn't been too much Friends news now that the show is off
the air. I'll try and send updates as I get them like this. Cheers,
~Tara
Courteney Cox Arquette is on the cover of the August issue of Marie
Claire. The inside article talks about Jen, money and being the boss.
the Friends spin-off, Joey is now on DVD. The 4-disc set contains all 24
first season episodes. You can check out the listing at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ERVK5S/juditmcnauafa-20
NBC has signed a two-year first look development deal with Is or Isn't
It Entertainment, the production company owned by Lisa Kudrow and Dan
Bucantinsky. A previous development deal with Warner Bros. yielded a
handful of projects including The Comeback for HBO, and various pilots
for various broadcast networks, as well as the made-for TV movie for ABC
Family Picking Up and Dropping Off. Currently in the hopper is a
project based on the book But Enough About Me from Jancee Dunn.
The popular DVD trivia game Scene It, just came out with a Friends
edition. I already bought it online and played with friends. The
questions are pretty easy so even non fanatics can keep up, but it’s fun
doing the “all play” options where they show a lot of clips from
different episodes and then ask you questions about it like name the
next line or ask which friend dated this character, etc. I definitely
wasn’t challenged on the questions but did enjoy the clips and quickly
coming up with the answers.
You can find out more information on the interactive board game here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000B6MLNM/juditmcnauafa-20/
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Matthew Perry & Aaron Sorkin Joke About Drugs
SATURDAY JULY 22, 2006
By Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna and Jed Dreben
Crack cocaine and Vicodin aren't the typical topics of conversation at a
Hollywood TCA (Television Critics Association) panel to introduce new
Fall shows, but when the event is led by Aaron Sorkin and Matthew Perry,
accidents can happen.
"I do think that television is a terribly influential part of this
country," said Sorkin, writer and executive producer of NBC’s upcoming
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, when asked on Friday about the
vacuousness of current reality-TV culture. "When things that are very
mean-spirited and voyeuristic go on TV, I think it's (like) bad crack in
the schoolyard."
As the audience of journalists erupted into laughter, Sorkin playfully
asked, "Why did I use that word?"
Actor Bradley Whitford replied, "I have no clue."
At first, Sorkin simply added, "Everything is fine," but later joked, "I
will go person to person giving each $100 if we can just get the crack
quote out of the papers tomorrow.
"It's an expression that I meant nothing by. And with all the mental
preparation I did for the panel that I was actually able to say that is
beyond belief. It really is."
Later on, Studio 60 star Perry, never one to miss a clever quip,
extended the joke with, "I think it's mostly like bad Vicodin in the
schoolyard."
While drugs are now a source of comic relief for the two men, it wasn't
so long ago that both were embroiled in public fights with their private
demons.
In 2001, Sorkin narrowly escaped felony charges for the possession of
cocaine and hallucinogenic mushrooms by completing a six-month drug
rehabilitation program.
Perry, who went to rehab for the second time in 2001, has publicly
acknowledged taking an "insane number of pills" of the painkiller
Vicodin in the past – sometimes 20 to 30 a day.
Studio 60 takes a behind the scenes look at a sketch comedy show like
Saturday Night Live. This is Perry's first starring TV role since the
end of Friends. Sorkin is best known as the creator of The West Wing.
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Jennifer Aniston Bares All ... Almost
By Susan Wloszczyna
USA Today
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (May 26) — Jennifer Aniston is shivering. Not from
fear that the phalanx of paparazzi outside the beachside hotel might
snap a photo of her and Vince Vaughn , her new leading man in life and
on screen, as they promote The Break-Up. No, she is feeling the effects
of a large frosty beverage that she gulped moments before.
She still manages a warm smile, huddled under a long white robe. Her
box-office record of late contains more misses (Derailed, Rumor Has It)
than hits (at least some critics liked Sundance fave Friends with
Money). And this comedy about a feuding couple forced to share their
condo feels like it might end up in the plus column, especially with
Vaughn still blistering hot after last year's Wedding Crashers.
The former Friends star, 37, has done her share of pedestrian romantic
comedies. But this one was different. "Vince had this idea after being
handed so many comedies, just like I had as well. Why do you have to
work so hard at a plot when relationships are really, as they are,
pretty complicated?"
And if anyone should know the truth of that, it is Aniston, who split
with ex-husband Brad Pitt just months before beginning The Break-Up
last year in Chicago (and, no, she hasn't moved there to be with
Vaughn). Even she found the timing to be jarring.
"At first, I was, 'Hmmm.' I thought my agent was kidding. Mean joke. But
it was like, wow, there is a reason this is coming to me right now. But
it will have to be done in a way that is as truthful as we can be to
tell the right story."
There is real hurt and anger that flashes on her face during the
bitterest quarrels, a reminder that The Break-Up is no Along Came Polly.
But that's not to say that Aniston doesn't provoke laughs as well as
tears. The trailer teases her most revealing scene: a birthday-suited
stroll into the kitchen that causes Vaughn to finally tear his eyes away
from a video game. Not that she was totally in the buff. "I had a little
piece of nude underwear that was taped within an inch of its life on the
front."
The sequence is inspired by another bit of funny business, when her boss
(Judy Davis) suggests she cheer up by getting her nether regions tended
to with a waxing procedure named after Telly Savalas .
Even more amusing, the late chrome-domed Kojak actor was Aniston's
actual godfather. "The writers had no idea," she says. "It's a great
little tribute. And how about the song? I didn't know he recorded Who
Loves Ya Baby."
If you ask Aniston that same musical question, however, she won't tell
you the answer. Like Vaughn, she has been steadfast in refusing to
acknowledge that they are a pair, no matter how many photos show them
cuddling on hotel balconies. "You just make a decision about what you
are willing to put on the table," she says, "and you learn from your
lessons."
Copyright 2006 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
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Matthew Perry Finds Work
Apr 18th 2006
by Martha Fischer
cinematical.com
Assuming that he actually wanted to be working, the post-Friends years
have been a little tough on Matthew Perry. Sure Joey isn’t doing well,
but at least Matt LeBlanc has a job. And Jennifer Aniston's had a
personal issues from time to time, but the girl is all over the place --
hell, she's in a new movie every 20 minutes. Good news is here, though,
for your Chandler fans: Perry has a job. He'll star in an indie comedy
called Numb, in which his character "suffers from acute
depersonalization disorder." What's that? I have no idea. And neither,
sadly, do the folks at The Hollywood Reporter, who describe it as "so
alienating and sanguine that it makes the chronically depressed look
perky." Since sanguine, according to my handy-dandy dictionary, means
"cheerfully optimistic," that has to be just plain wrong. I'm having a
hard time figuring out, for example, how a)a disorder can be optimistic,
and b)how said disorder could make depressed people look "perky," what
with the optimism and all. (Here's an actual, "sanguine"-free
description. Suffice to say that it's really, really horrible.)
In Numb, Perry's miserable character falls in love and, in need of a
clever gimmick to sell the movie, decides to "puts himself through every
single therapy in the book in order to win her love." I assume I'm not
the only one who noticed that this is about two steps away from
something that would happen to Chandler -- which, actually, might be a
good sign for the movie. Hey, when you have to eat, typecasting isn't
that bad.
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