June 2001
- Friends Score Deal Worth A Million Dollars An Episode
The six stars of Friends have won a new deal worth $1 million
an episode each for the ninth and final season. Jennifer Aniston,
32, Lisa Kudrow, 37, Matthew Perry, 31, Matt Leblanc, 33,
Courteney Cox, 36, and David Schwimmer, 34, each stand to
earn almost $24 million for the 24 episodes, with a three-month
break before shooting begins this August. Ten years ago, they
earned just $6,500 an episode. According to a worker at the
makers of the hit show, Warner Brothers, next season will
definitely be the last, and the stars only made the huge demand
because they expected it to be turned down. The employee reveals
of the cast, "They don't exactly get on that well any
more. And their agents held us to ransom."
March 2001
- Lisa Kudrow Deals Matthew Perry Tough Love
Lisa Kudrow has told the newly clean (again) Matthew Perry
that he's on his last chance. FRIENDS star Perry has just
returned to the hit TV show after spending three weeks in
rehab for prescription drugs. Kudrow, 37, is dealing him some
tough love. She was heard telling the star, "It's time
to get your act together. This is your last chance. You're
killing yourself, Matthew, and I, for one, don't want to be
forced to watch you die. There isn't anyone here who doesn't
love you. But you must do your part to get better. It's time
to get your act together. This is your last chance."
A pal on the show says, "Lisa is very fond of Matthew
but feels she and the rest of the cast have been far too sympathetic
to his problems. She feels the time has come for them to show
him some tough love." Perry has been in rehab once before
in 1997.
October
2000 - Lisa Kudrow Overworks Bleeper On New Film
FRIENDS actress LISA KUDROW got so carried away as her "sex
kitten" character in her new film, that she swore to
the point where much of the film had to be cut. Kudrow, who's
renowned for her nice, quirky character PHOEBE in the hit
TV sit-com, will shock fans with her portrayal of foul- mouthed
murderer CRYSTAL - just as she shocked the film's editors.
She says, "I think I got carried away at times, because
I know they had to take away a lot of the bad language I added.
"The politest way to describe Crystal is that she's a
foul- mouthed sex kitten, which makes her about as far as
one could get from the sweetness of Phoebe. "She is vile
and outrageous. She has such a low opinion of everyone around
her that she was a real treat to create."
May 2000
- Lisa Kudrow Promises To End Friends If A Co-Star Quits
LISA KUDROW will quit FRIENDS if one of her co-stars walks
out because she came up with the show's famous all or nothing
policy. The actress who plays PHOEBE in the hit sitcom, admits
the future looks a little grey for the sextet who star in
the show, but she won't try and keep it all together if a
colleague left. She says, "It's getting down to the wire
as to whether or not there'll be more seasons of Friends.
"The six of us have known each other for a long time
- we are either all coming back or none of us are, because
no one wants to be there without one of us. The Friends set
is a nice place to be."
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