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And just as we anticipated, Gunther and Naked Guy holding out on the rumored Friends reunion movie has unraveled the project completely, with various cast members now saving face by acting like it was never in the cards to begin with: "'Nothing is happening in this regard,' said Matthew Perry's rep in a statement. 'The rumor is false.' This sentiment was echoed by David Schwimmer's publicist, who said, 'there's been no discussion about it.' And dealing the final blow to the rumor was a rep for Jennifer Aniston, who said that his client was unaware of any such project, and who questioned by she would have any interest in revisiting her sitcom days." [OK]

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and introducing david schwimmer as 'ross'

The One With The Cast Of 'Friends' Wanting In On A Little Of That 'SATC' Movie Action

There are at least 140,796,667 lessons to be taken from the recent Sex and the City movie phenomenon, starting with the one about how an obsessively beloved TV series revolving around a tight group of Manhattan-based besties could make the successful transition to the big screen four years after leaving the airwaves. Now, reports U.K.-based Hollywood-scoop-service the Daily Mail, the varyingly employable stars of NBC's behemoth hit Friends are prepared to take their hanging-out-in-a-fake-looking-coffee-house adventures to the next level:

The highly anticipated film production of TV series Friends has finally been given the go-ahead, MailOnline has learned.
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10:25 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Seth
8,240 views, 65 comments

Latest by n/a: I have to admit that if they work in the chimp from "Ed" and Tom Selleck's moustache, I will see this film... more »

Feathered Friends

Heidi Fleiss to Documentary Filmmakers: "Don't Mess with My Birds!"

If you're a diva with an image problem (like, say, Monica Lewinsky or Hitler), there's no friendlier filmmaking duo than Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. In fact, the World of Wonder partners have such a reverence for tarnished camp that they once began an interview with your guest blogger by pointing to a half-drank Evian and solemnly intoning, "That? Was Nicole Richie's." However, former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss didn't quite see eye-to-eye with the pair, despite their attempts to flatter her in the new HBO doc Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal. Says Page Six:

Her narcissistic attachment to her tabloid persona is front and center, as is her apparent drug abuse, but so is her humanity. In fact, the film is surprisingly sympathetic; one memorable scene shows Fleiss befriending an elderly woman in a nursing home. But Fleiss, who has agreed to join the upcoming season of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, has yet to see it after a falling-out with the directors.

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10:40 AM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Kyle Buchanan
1,738 views, 6 comments

Latest by Little Mintz Sunshine: @WGARefugee: I'm sure some ladies would pay extra for you to "recite" the formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media. That said, I don't know if Heidi wants a rabble-rousing union disciple organizing strikes for longer turn-around times and the more »

a call to the bullpen

Thank God You're Here, I Could So Use A Cigarette Right About Now

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a call to the bullpen

Well No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way

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friends with benefits

From 'Making The Band' To 'Making The Bed'

What would happen if Hollywood’s most boy-crazy, sex-obsessed serial dater hooked up with Hollywood’s most lady-loving, satin-sheet-sex-obsessed player of all players? Well, for one thing we’d write about it. For another thing, the couple in question would most likely spend a sample evening locked in a private New York bar’s room, lorded over by a bodyguard just because they were so frisky they needed 20 minutes to themselves...that very second. Something else they might do? At a private concert thrown by Prince at his infamous party palace, they might escape immediately after feeding each other that always seductive aphrodisiac, bread pudding, into the “labyrinthe corridors leading to [Prince’s] basement” and do, well, what these two stars in question apparently do best: the dirty. Join us after the jump to put some faces to these places: More »

5:20 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Molly Friedman
6,518 views, 8 comments

Latest by Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention: Defamer? Are you really reporting blatantly obvious planted Beard stories? It's like watching your loved one go from really good coke to Meth. How much did Puffy pay Diaz to go along with an obvious attempt to keep fooling middle America that he more »

player haters

Jennifer Aniston Takes John Mayer To Meet Her 'Friends'

With every passing week, the developing relationship between John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston begins to feel like one of those soap operas we used to watch before vowing never to watch another soap opera again. In the pilot, we viewers were hooked and enticed by Aniston’s fembot nipples and Mayer’s tattooed tricep, the beachside love affair reeling us in just like the first episode of Paradise Island. The sophomore effort’s plot involved the first climactic turn of events: John was “bored”! Jen was “clingy!” In this week’s episode, the relationship has reached that rosy point in which the new-ish couple begins introducing each other to their Friends. Literally. As the Daily Mail reports, Mayer has become part of that fun little sixsome we’ve loved, hated and grown indifferent towards, inducted by Aniston into bosom buddy Courteney Cox’s strict evaluation system. See how John’s infamous O-face fared with Cox after the jump. More »

4:00 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Molly Friedman
4,865 views, 7 comments

Latest by kylo4: @unclevanya: Anamayer sounds good to me. She's bee unlucky in love, maybe we should save the name just a bit longer.. more »

a call to the bullpen

Please Don't Patronize David, Okay?

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friends

All Aboard The Jennifer Aniston/Orlando Bloom Rumor Train!

Maybe there's no need to feel sorry for Jennifer Aniston after all. Despite the tear-drenched interviews post-Brangelina, the constant inductions of Chosen Ones, and all the hits and misses when it comes to on-set dating, Jen may not have to spend her spare time on-set chatting up whoever happens to be standing next to her in line at the craft service table. Several reports claim that Orlando Bloom spent his Friday night flirting with Aniston at a party thrown by Hollywood hairdresser to the stars, Ken Paves. But as you might recall, this isn't the first time Orlandiston sparked rumors. Back in October, the pair were spotted in Mexico sharing the same veranda in skimpy swimwear (pictures after the jump)... More »

9:20 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Molly Friedman
6,713 views, 11 comments

Latest by SanFranBetsu: You go girl!!! more »

a call to the bullpen

While Leaving Nobu, Courtney Cox Warns Patrons To Pass On The Kappa Roll

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courteney cox

Decide For Yourself Just How Disappointing The Rachel-On-Monica Kiss Is


For months now, we have been teased and coaxed by shadowy FX network marketing forces into believing decade-long Friends co-stars and real-life BFFs Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox would participate in a tame form of lesbian liplock on the season finale of Dirt, Cox's drama about the (as it turns out) not particularly compelling world of celebrity tabloid journalism. At last, the YouTubian gods answer the prayers of anyone with a passing interest in the proceedings who can't actually be bothered to sit through an entire Dirt episode. More »

2:32 PM on Wed Mar 28 2007
By Seth
8,161 views, 19 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: @procrastinator, esq.: I love you more »

friends

DVD-Sniffing Dogs Dying To Find Out If Ross And Rachel Are Ever Going To Make It Work


We'd like to take this opportunity to reaquaint you with the adorable, wet-nosed worst nightmares of any pirated entertainment smuggler: Lucky and Flo, two black Labradors whom we first met back in May of last year, who have been trained to sniff out polycarbonates used in the manufacturing of DVDs. They are on loan temporarily to Malaysia, just one of the Asia Pacific nations responsible for the estimated $1.2 billion the pirated DVD trade costs Hollywood annually, taking food off the plates of hard-working stuntmen and studio execs lunching at The Grill alike. Pictured, Lucky and Flo stand triumphantly next to their contraband quarry: A boxed-set featuring an entire season of Friends, just a small step towards ensuring its cast members—whose latest gigs are hardly insuring that food will continue to be put on their tables—are fairly remunerated for their hard work on the series. More »

7:03 PM on Tue Mar 13 2007
By Seth
1,355 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: Labrador, it's what's for dinner in Malaysia. more »

tv

TV Writers Still Stumped As To Why Audiences Not Flocking To Their Unfunny Sitcoms

A Hollywood conversation that has dominated much of this decade—regarding the sorry state of affairs for sitcom writers being edged out by more popular and cheaper-to-produce reality programming—continues with an LAT piece that revisits the familiar topic in light of NBC's recent towel-tossing concession of their 8 p.m. timeslot to an almost entirely briefcases-and-yelling-based programming schedule. The debate still falls mainly into two categories: the steadfastly optimistic camp that insists we are just in the midst of an extended audience taste cycle, and the somewhat more pragmatic, "OK, we're pretty much fucked" school of thought: More »

12:57 PM on Tue Nov 7 2006
By Seth
252 views, 4 comments

Latest by engquilt: The key word here is "Unfunny." It always amazes me that the budgets and bankrolls for movies and TV produce such schlock. Audiences are smart. They want characters that are funny and writing that is smart. more »

matt leblanc

Matt LeBlanc Sued By Woman He Claims Nearly Lapdanced Him To Death

Matt LeBlanc, as we well know, is the National Enquirer's willing bitch, eager to clamp down on their shiny, red ball-gags of divorce exclusives and first-person "The Night My Lap Was Attacked By A Runaway Stripper's Ass" tell-alls, in exchange for what we can only assume is the assurance that a manila envelope marked "M.L.'s 4 a.m. Vaseline Alley Surveillance Pics" remains permanently sealed. The woman to whom the ass in question belongs is now suing LeBlanc for defamation of character, for the ridiculous-sounding claims the Friends star made about her in a fishy interview he granted the Enquirer last year: More »

6:42 PM on Mon Aug 28 2006
By Seth
430 views, 1 comment

Latest by Romana Klay: Greatest story of the week. more »

david schwimmer

Underemployed Former 'Friends' Cast Member Jurisprudencewatch

Former Friends star/brave lil' Broadway sailor David Schwimmer has triumphed against a crooked celebrity fundraising event organizer, who claimed Schwimmer had been bribed with "two gold Rolex watches worth $26,413" in exchange for attending a charity event. Schwimmer categorically denied the accusation, and now has the full backing of the law to support that: More »

4:57 PM on Fri Jun 16 2006
By Seth
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trade roundup

Trade Round Up: 'Cars'' Dark Secret

· Variety assumes Cars will be this weekend's top earner, but wonders if it will beat any box office records, particularly when parents start warning each other of the dark, autopian vision of its ending: [SPOILER!] That the reason it's devoid of any humans is because they're all being ground up for fuel in subterranean farms. [Variety]
· Steven Spielberg tells Sunday Morning Shootout that Paramount was his second choice for DreamWorks' buyout, and that he "would love to go off and make a picture like Capote or George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck,"stopping himself before saying, "You know, movies that earn their Oscars, rather than getting nominations because I'm, like, Steven Spielberg." [Variety]
· Former Friends writer and Will & Grace showrunner Greg Malins is joining How I Met Your Mother, where he will school the show's green creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays on the proper way to describe a blowjob to the writers' room. [Variety]
· Reese Witherspoon's husband is in negotiations to star as the lead in director Kimberly Peirce's first feature since Boys Don't Cry, the Iraq war drama, Stop-Loss. [THR]
· Ratings are up for the NBA finals over last year, with the boost's source suspected of coming from overcompensating, straight men feeling the urge to catch the nearest game after being subjected to an inescapable week of Brandon Routh's suberbulge. [THR]

3:04 PM on Fri Jun 9 2006
By Seth
75 views, 1 comment

Latest by Bufflekins: Glad to hear Peirce is taking a little break from the dark side of humanity in her films. more »

tv shows

California Supreme Court Rejects 'Friends' Lawsuit, Defends Sanctity Of Writers' Room

Sitcom producers all over town will be relieved to discover that the California Supreme Court upheld the no-dead-baby-rape-joke-too-foul sanctity of the writers' room today, ruling that the Friends staff was merely performing their duties when they speculated about the contents of Courteney Cox's uterus, discussed their personal views on the necessity of foreplay, or pitched out unorthodox ideas for Joey's day job: More »

1:55 PM on Thu Apr 20 2006
By Mark
1,002 views, 2 comments

friends

CA Supreme Court Hears The One Where The Writer's Assistant Sues Her Bosses

You may recall Lyle v. Warner Brothers Television Productions, the case that blew the sitcom writer's room door wide open: A female Friends writer's assistant, fired after four months, sued the show for sexual harassment, claiming the show's writer-producers subjected her to a daily barrage of sexually explicit and racist comments (sample complaint: "69. [Executive Producer Andrew] Reich said that [Courtney] Cox's pussy was full of dried up twigs and said that if her husband put his dick in her she'd break in two.") After an LA County Superior Court judge initially dismissed the suit, the Court of Appeal ruled it should go to trial. The California Supreme Court began hearing arguments yesterday, and according to the LAT, so far they seem to be siding with the grotesquely overpaid, wisecracking white guys: More »

10:14 AM on Wed Feb 15 2006
By Seth
87 views, 3 comments

Latest by EireGirl: Could this lawsuit BE any funnier? more »