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Lisa
Kudrow Forced Out of TV
Friends
star Lisa Kudrow fears she'll be forced to quit television after the
sitcom ends next year, because she's been typecast as dizzy Phoebe.
The actress is keen to recreate her Friends character for Matt Le
Blanc's spin-off show, Joey - but she's worried she'll never get offered
another small screen role.
She says, "I'm Phoebe. It'll be tough to convince the TV
audience that I'm someone else."
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Copyright World Entertainment News Network 2003
Friends star Matt LeBlanc has been ordered to shed pounds
for his new sitcom "Joey" because TV bosses want him to look
trim, reports IMDB.com. Although far from fat, the actor has bulked up
since his debut on the show, and producers want him to drop 25 pounds. A
source claims LeBlanc's pregnant, health-conscious wife Melissa McKnight
is determined to help her husband hit his ideal weight. "Instead of
Matt's favorite pasta meals, she's substituting chicken and fish, and
they're eating plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables and salads," says
the source. LeBlanc's new sitcom will be a spin-off of
"Friends."
'Friends' Cast Prepares to Say Goodbye
Associated Press
NEW YORK With the
final season of the popular NBC sitcom 'Friends' underway, cast members
say they're too sad to think about the end.
Jennifer
Aniston likened it to a "divorce nobody wants," and David
Schwimmer said the end is going to be "very emotional."
The return of "Friends" for a 10th season was unexpected,
NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker has said. It was assumed the
cast was ready for the show's end - despite the $1 million per episode
each actor receives.
The show, however, had a creative renaissance in the last two seasons
and everyone associated with the show decided it was too much fun to
give up, Zucker said. Courteney Cox Arquette, who plays Monica, said it
probably won't hit her until three months after the last episode is
taped, and it will be "a killer" that she's not going back.
The sitcom's final script hasn't been written, but Aniston said she
hopes her character Rachel's romance with Joey, played by Matt LeBlanc,
will end. She said she hates the story line because Joey is too much
like Rachel's brother. Cox said she probably wants Rachel and Ross to
get back together.
"They've gone off and on, and off and on," she said.
"We've got to wrap it up."
A total of 18 episodes of "Friends," including an hourlong
finale, will air during the 2003-04 season. That's six fewer than last
year's 24 episodes, leaving a lot of space to fill next year.
Looking ahead to life without
"Friends," the network's highest-rated series, Zucker said
it's likely NBC won't find its "next great comedy" until
"Friends" ends its run.
"' Matthew Perry and Father Split World Premiere of The Whole
Banana, Oct. 2-Nov. 9
By Ernio
Hernandez
"Friends" star Matthew Perry has been bitten by the stage bug,
as he and his father, stage and screen veteran John Bennett Perry, will
present the world premiere of Deb Norton's The Whole Banana.
The play, which was workshopped at Theatre 150 in Ojai,
California, will perform at West Hollywood's Court Theatre, Oct. 2-Nov.
9. The opening night is scheduled for Oct. 4.
Kim Maxwell-Brown directs a cast that includes Dwier Brown, Chris
Nottoli, Nealla Gordon, Carol Locatell and Norton herself. The comedy
follows the winter of a young New York artist suffering from a creative
block while she tries to quit smoking and end a bad relationship. At the
urging of a Nicotine Anonymous sponsor, she tries to get in touch with a
"higher power" and, to her amazement, does—then tries to
force him to stay
The younger Perry recently made his stage debut opposite Hank Azaria
and Minnie Driver in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago
at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End. Television audiences have
become acquainted with Perry as the sarcastic Chandler Bing in the NBC
comedy "Friends." The actor also appeared on the big screen in
"Fools Rush In," "Three to Tango" and "The
Whole Nine Yards," the sequel of which ("The Whole Ten
Yards") is slated for a spring 2004 release.
Patriarch Perry recently starred opposite Stephanie Zimbalist in a
west coast revival of The Rainmaker at Ventura's Rubicon Theatre.
Known as the sailor in the "Old Spice" commercials of old, the
actor has appeared on Broadway in Mother Earth and Off-Broadway
in The Baby Dance, Show Me Where the Good Times Are, A Month of
Sundays and Now Is the Time for All Good Men.
Tickets to The Whole Banana at The Court Theatre, 722 North La
Cienaga Blvd. (Between Santa Monica and Melrose Place) in West
Hollywood, CA, can be purchased by calling (310) 281-1152. For more
information, visit www.thewholebanana.com.
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Jennifer Aniston at the 55th
Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 21. (AP/Laura Rauch) |
LONDON
(AP) - Friends star Jennifer Aniston's Emmy dress attracted
bids of more than $4,100 in an online charity auction.
The midnight-blue, knee-length dress, inspired by Marilyn
Monroe's subway-grate dress in The Seven Year Itch, was the
leading seller Monday at he auction of outfits worn by stars to
this year's Emmy Awards. The auction on EBay closes Wednesday.
Last year, the Clothes off Our Back initiative received Emmy
outfits from about 20 celebrities and raised more than $87,000.
This year, more than 30 stars - including Friends stars Courteney
Cox Arquette and Matthew Perry - donated their eveningwear for the
auction.
The money raised will go to Cure Autism Now and the Union of
Concerned Scientists.
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