The couple took their vows on a bluff with an expansive
ocean view of the pristine Anini Beach. Matt wore a classic black suit with
a pale blue, open-collared shirt, complete with a white lei, while gorgeous
Melissa was elegant in a simple white sheath dress with a plunging back. The
new bride wore her hair up, and displayed a stunning diamond necklace with a
matching bracelet and drop earrings.
Matt and Melissa then walked down a path strewn with tropical flowers and
lit tiki torches that led them to a canopy overlooking the ocean, where they
exchanged vows.
As for the reception, ET learned that the main tent accommodated
approximately 200 guests, who danced the night away under a roof twinkling
with thousands of white lights.
A biplane and three helicopters circled the event, assumed to be press and
paparazzi, even though local helicopter companies reportedly voluntarily
grounded their fleets in respect to the nuptials.
COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE and her husband, DAVID ARQUETTE
witnessed the ceremony along with co-stars LISA KUDROW and JENNIFER
ANISTON. BRAD PITT couldn't attend because he's shooting 'Troy'
on the island of Malta, and MATTHEW PERRY could not attend because
he's in the London play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, while DAVID
SCHWIMMER's rep says he was actually in Chicago.
Earlier this week, locals were abuzz over the impending celebrity wedding. A
series of white tents were erected for the ceremony, an island baker was
said to be making a multi-tiered wedding cake in her own home, and an island
florist was rumored to be creating an unbelievable display. The ultra
exclusive Princeville Resort on Kauai was also fully booked for the weekend,
with members of the press checked in.
Matt popped the question to Melissa back in November of 1998 after the two
dated for about a year. Melissa is mom to two kids from a previous
relationship.
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Pictures
from Leblanc's wedding
Matthew was Busy with his play in London
Courteney & Jen at the beach B4 the wedding
David Schwimmer
- A Gambling Friend
David
Schwimmer's Friends co-stars have stopped gambling with the actor -
because he's too good at it.
The funnyman actor first showed off his gambling skills during a
trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, just before Friends took off in 1994. He
then set up a poker league on the set of the hit TV sitcom.
Friends co-star Matthew Perry says, "He's very good, but he's
very serious when he's gambling."
Matt LeBlanc - who portrays Joey Tribbiani in the comedy - adds,
"I wouldn't recommend gambling with David. He's a fiend. He's
just shy of a problem - only joking."
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Copyright World Entertainment News Network 2003
Drink nearly killed me: Perry
Monday 28 April 2003, 2:05 PM
Friends
star Matthew Perry has revealed how his years of drinking binges
nearly killed him.
Perry, who plays Chandler Bing in the TV show, admitted that
seeking help for his addiction was a question of life or death.
The star told Michael Parkinson that his alcoholism nearly
destroyed him.
Asked about his recovery, Perry said: "It wasn't a question of
strength. It was a question of whether I wanted to live or die - that
was the real decision. I'm happy to say that I chose life."
Perry, 33, spoke candidly to Parkinson on the BBC1 show about the
extent of his drink problem.
He joked: "There was a certain point in my life when I'd have
tried to drink you, Michael."
Perry has been clean since last year when he beat his addiction to
alcohol and the painkiller Vicodin.
His problems were well-documented in the press and viewers saw his
weight fluctuate wildly over the last four years as he alternated
booze and drugs binges with spells in rehab clinics.
But Perry said he was glad his problems had been made public:
"I got to help more people than I would have done had it remained
private."
The American actor became one of the world's best known TV stars
after landing the role of Chandler, but Perry said fame had
contributed to his problems.
"It's very odd to have all your dreams come true at the age of
25 and find that this new life isn't quite what you thought it would
be," he said.
In the interview, Perry also joked about the rumor that he fathered
Liz Hurley's baby Damian during a supposed fling on the set of their
movie Serving Sara.
He said: "I certainly like the rumor that I was the father of
Elizabeth Hurley's baby.
"It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way
to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together,
so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of
suing the baby!"
Perry is soon to make his West End debut alongside Minnie Driver in
the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity In Chicago.
He's
the guy that delivers the comic relief each week on
"Friends." But it's a different set of friends that has
Matthew Perry talking to "Extra."
Perry says, "These kids that survive this
disease are just beautiful."
The disease is Williams Syndrome, a nuero-genetic birth defect with
serious physical consequences. The foundation is called Lili Claire
and in this months InStyle magazine "cause celeb" Matthew
explains his connection to the families that struggle with it.
"Friends" casting director Leslie Resnick and her husband,
Keith, lost their young daughter, Lili Claire, to the syndrome when
she was just five-and-a-half months old. They created the Lili Claire
foundation, which raises money to help those afflicted with Williams
and other similar birth defects, in her honor. Matthew says,
"They were going to have a yearly event and asked me to host it
and before she'd gotten to the end of the sentence I said yes."
The Lili Claire foundation's star-studded annual dinner brings out
some of Hollywood's biggest names, but for Matthew it's clear who the
real stars of the evening are. He says, "They kind of have this
light inside, it makes the event like my favorite night of the year
because it's just this wonderful kind of glowing presence that they
all have."
And what these kids also have are some very special talents. Perry
says, "They steal the show and every year at the event we have
different singers and different performers and it tends to be the kids
with Williams disease that really blow people away."
And they have the ability to turn the tables on one of TV’s top
funnymen. Perry says, "They have an unbelievable sense of humor.
Every year I start out the show with something funny that one of the
kids had said to me. The last time somebody kind of looked at me and I
thought she was very happy to see me. And she had this kind of look in
her eye and she said, 'Come here.' And I walked over and I was very
excited to have a nice moment. And she asked me where Matt LeBlanc
was."
Well Joey wasn't there, but Matthew always brings some of his other
"friends" to help out. He says, "I think Lisa’s been
there every year and most of the cast has been there and last year
Jenny [Aniston] was one of the presenters at it."
Aniston says, "I'm inspired by Matthew everyday."
But at the end of the day, what inspires Matthew Perry about these
kids is their grace in the face of adversity. He says, "We tend
to have problems like traffic and our version of hell in the everyday
world is being late for work or something. And then you meet these
kids and see what they have to deal with and see how happy they are
and see how outgoing they are and giving with their happiness - that
it puts everything in perspective."
NBC EXTENDS 'FRIENDSHIP' WITH DAVID
SCHWIMMER IN NEW SERIES DEVELOPMENT DEAL
NBC
has signed an exclusive two-year series development deal with David
Schwimmer (NBC’s “Friends,” “Uprising”), it was announced today by
Jeff Zucker, President, NBC Entertainment.
“We want to extend our mutually successful relationship with David in
other creative arenas,” said Zucker. “This deal will provide even more
opportunities for his many natural talents besides acting since he’s
proven himself in so many other artistic endeavors.”
The terms of the agreement will allow Schwimmer to develop series projects,
as well as direct his own projects and other NBC series.
Schwimmer's performance as Ross Geller, a sensitive, hopeless romantic,
has earned him an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a
Comedy Series as well as popular and critical acclaim for his versatility on
stage, in film and television in a wide variety of roles.
Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Schwimmer received a
bachelor’s degree in speech/theater from Northwestern University. In 1988,
along with seven other Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago’s
Lookingglass Theatre Company -- an ensemble of actors, writers, directors
and designers (now 20-members strong) dedicated to creating vibrant new
works for the American stage.
Schwimmer’s stage acting credits with Lookingglass include
Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot,” as well as “The Master and Margarita,”
“Arabian Nights,” “In the Eye of the Beholder,” “West,” “Of
One Blood” and “The Odyssey.” In addition, he starred in the premieres
of Roger Kumble’s “D Girl” in Los Angeles and Warren Leight’s
“Glimmer Brothers” in Williamstown.
Schwimmer’s stage directing credits include his adaptation of “The
Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, which received six Joseph Jefferson Awards,
“The Serpent” and “Alice in Wonderland,” which toured to the
Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. He also directed the feature film “Since
You’ve Been Gone” for Miramax, and continues to direct episodes of
“Friends.”
Schwimmer is currently adapting the book “Race,” by Studs Terkel,
which he will direct as the opening production for his drama company’s new
theater, now under construction, in Chicago in May 2003.
Among Schwimmer’s feature credits are “Hotel” (a dark comedy from
Mike Figgis) “It’s the Rage,” “Picking up the Pieces,” “Six
Days, Seven Nights,” “Apt Pupil,” “Kissing a Fool,” “The
Pallbearer,” “Crossing the Bridge” and the critically acclaimed HBO TV
longform projects “Band of Brothers” and “Breast Men.” His
television credits include “Uprising,” Jon Avnet’s 2001 miniseries
about the Warsaw Ghetto resistance during World War II.
Schwimmer is on the board of directors of the Rape Foundation for the
Rape Treatment Center of Santa Monica.