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11.1.06 - TVGuide.com: Us magazine reports that Matthew Perry is romancing The Class' Lizzy Caplan, whom he was introduced to two months ago by Friend Matt LeBlanc.

10.27.06 - People Online: All in the Family Courteney Cox Arquette does some sisterly bonding with her in-laws (from left) Alexis, Rosanna and Patricia Arquette at a Hollywood party on Thursday for Patricia's NBC show Medium. Also along for the fun: Patricia's husband of four months, actor Thomas Jane.

10.25.06 - People Online: Power Puff Girls Hilary Swank and Lisa Kudrow show that they both got the memo for quilted-black-coat Tuesday while on the New York City set of their film, P.S. I Love You.

10.24.06 - People Online: Girls' Night Out Pals Sheryl Crow and Courteney Cox Arquette receive a cultural education – well, at least a comedic one – at the Borat premiere. "I'm a huge fan, every character he does," Cox Arquette told PEOPLE about Baron Cohen. "He's one of the funniest people in the world."

10.24.06 - People Online: Brava! Jennifer Aniston surrounds herself with costars (from left) Nia Vardalos, Anna Paquin and Kieran Culkin following her Broadway debut in a one-night only performance at the 6th Annual 24 Hour Plays on Monday. The actress received raves for her performance in Three Girls and Bob, about a single woman who attends an intimacy workshop with her friends.

10.21.06 - People Online: Fast Forward Jennifer Aniston zips into the American Airlines Theater Monday morning to get to work on The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit in New York City, along with Edie Falco, Matt Dillon and others. At task: creating six new plays in just 24 hours.

10.18.06 - TVGuide.com: Jennifer Aniston will produce and possibly star in Counter Clockwise, a dramedy about Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer's study in which she reversed the aging process of her subjects by making them think they were younger.

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10.17.06 - E!Online Fashion Police: Nipped Tuck: We're strictly Team Jennifer Aniston, but it'd be much easier to support the gal if her blousy top was properly tucked into these skinny gray pants. Why so sloppy, Jen? The only satisfactory answer here would be that you were making out with Vince Vaughn in the limo and didn't have time to readjust your outfit. -->

10.17.06 - Zap2It.com: Vaughn Sues Over Cheating Stories Vince Vaughn hasn't been unfaithful to Jennifer Aniston. In fact, they're still dating. The "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" actor is suing several tabloids over a story that he was allegedly kissing a "mystery blonde" after breaking it off with Aniston, reports People. More...

10.17.06 - People Online: 'Reel' Talent Jennifer Aniston steps out Monday at the West Hollywood premiere of Room 10, a short film she co-directed as part of Glamour magazine's Reel Moments series. "What's so empowering and so exciting is the day-by-day creative process," she told Oprah about making the film.

10.16.06 - People Online: Bloody Good Courteney Cox keeps her composure despite husband David Arquette's gore-splattered suit during the premiere of his slasher flick The Tripper, which unspooled at Los Angeles's 6th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival on Friday.

10.16.06 - Zap2It.com: 'Friends' Co-Creator Dances to CW Marta Kauffman is taking a turn with the CW around the pilot dance floor. The writer-producer and Warner Bros. TV will create a one-hour pilot for the fledling network tentatively titled "Steps," a "comedrama" or "dancedy" about a family-run dance studio, according to The Hollywood Reporter. More...

10.10.06 - People Online: Good Cause Courteney Cox and David Arquette get cozy with U.N. adviser Dr. Jeffrey Sachs at his Millennium Promise bash in Beverly Hills on Saturday. The nonprofit, which is also supported by such activist-luminaries as Angelina Jolie and Bono, has a mission to end world poverty by 2025.

10.9.06 - People Online: News Hound Courteney Cox gets the scoop on her competitors Thursday on the Hollywood set of her FX show, Dirt. The former Friend plays an editor of a celeb-obsessed magazine in the new series, which debuts in 2007.

10.5.06 - Zap2It.com: Aniston and Vaughn's Real-Life 'Break-Up' Well, for sure this time, since it comes from an unnamed source close to the couple, it must be true: Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn have called it quits. More...

9.21.06 - Zap2It.com: LeBlanc's Divorce Finalized Matt LeBlanc has finally ended his three-year marriage to his wife Melissa. The former "Joey" star's divorce was granted in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday, Sept. 20. According to the 28-page document found on TMZ.com, the legal marriage termination is effective Friday, Oct. 6. More...

9.14.06 - People magazine declared that Jennifer Aniston topped the list of best-dressed women of 2006 for her natural fashion sense.

8.30.06 - Zap2It.com: Aniston Settles Topless Photo Lawsuit Jennifer Aniston's topless photos are going to get a lot less exposure. "The Break-Up" actress and the photographer who snapped her semi-nude picture have "mutually agreed on their differences," reports "Extra." More...

8.30.06 - People Online: Back on the Scene Jennifer Aniston, who has kept a low-profile since telling PEOPLE that she's not engaged to boyfriend Vince Vaughn, ventures out of a Santa Monica recording studio on Tuesday.

8.30.06 - People Online: 'Friend'-ly Fitness Courteney Cox picks up the pace Monday while exercising along the Malibu surf.

8.29.06 - Rumor has it there may be some kind of special in the works for Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback....

8.28.06 - Pictures from the Emmys! Matthew Perry and guest at the TV Guide Emmys party. Lisa Kudrow on the red carpet. Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry. Lisa Kudrow with Michael Stern on the red carpet.

8.28.06 - TVGuide.com: Matt LeBlanc is being sued for defamation by an exotic dancer alleging that he talked smack about her, and the remarks made their way into the National Enquirer. According to the Associated Press, Stephanie Stephens says the ex-Friend told someone who blabbed to the Enquirer that she was sexually aggressive and gave him not only a lap dance but a "night of sexual debauchery... at her place of employment." The legal papers go on to huff that "all sexual contact between the defendant and the plaintiff took place in the privacy of [the plaintiff's] residence."

8.27.06 - TVGuide.com: Michael Ausiello reports that Matthew Perry and Lauren Graham arrived at Entertainment Weekly's Emmy bash at Republic last night... and while these two have attended events together before, last night they were looking pretty, um, friendly with each other.

8.17.06 - TVGuide.com: While the increasingly defensive tabloid that first declared Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn engaged stands by its story, maintaining it was based on "lengthy interviews with four separate and independent sources," Aniston herself has stepped forth to deem the story "insane," telling People, "I'm not engaged, I don't have a ring, and I haven't been proposed to." What prompted the typically tight-lipped Aniston to comment is the fact that the story has received coverage on legit news outlets, "and we're supposed to be believing in the news."

8.15.06 - TVGuide.com: In an update that a full 31 percent of you care about, Courteney Cox tells Wednesday's Access Hollywood that Us' cover story is "made up," and that Friends friend Jennifer Aniston has not promised herself (and her considerable dowry) to Vince Vaughn. "They didn't get engaged that night [June 27] and they are absolutely not engaged," says Cox. "Unless it happened in the last 20 minutes, no, it did not happen." Cox, who plays the editor of a celebrity tabloid in the upcoming FX series Dirt, says her TV alter ego never would have botched a story like this because "she would have the facts. She would have someone planted under the table the entire night, but she would have gotten the truth."

8.10.06 - TVGuide.com: As reported here in a late-Wednesday-afternoon update, a spokesperson for Jennifer Aniston has wholly denied a tabloid report that Vince Vaughn popped the question to the Friends alumna. "They are not engaged. The Us story is a complete fabrication," the rep reiterates to the New York Post. "She has no ring, there was no proposal.... I could not be more clear about this." Nonetheless, Us stands by its story, which is a bit charming, Woodward-and-Bernstein-esque.

8.9.06 - TVGuide.com: "A friend of the couple's" tells Us that Vince Vaughn popped the question to Jennifer Aniston on June 27, capping a nine-day retreat to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. "They're engaged!" the source (apparently) squeals. "Vince almost cries whenever he tells the story of the proposal." (Yeah, that's hot.) The mag's cover tease also suggests that Vince's is bigger than Brad's. The engagement ring, that is.

8.7.06 - People Online: Lucky Dog Jennifer Aniston, who reportedly adopted another dog recently, shares some puppy love while stepping out in Malibu on Sunday.

8.7.06 - People Online: The Perfect Setup Courteney Cox and Sheryl Crow make it a lounge act while vacationing together in Mexico on Sunday. The singer, who split from fiancé Lance Armstrong in February, has been dating an L.A.-based film director for the past few months, thanks to a setup by pal Cox.

8.1.06 - People Online: Tee Zone Courteney Cox shows off her wild side while husband David Arquette clowns around Sunday at the L.A. premiere of the animated film Barnyard: The Original Party Animals. Cox voices the role of carefree cow Daisy in the family flick.

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8.01.05 - TV Guide Insider - Kudrow's Comeback: "We Don't Feel Done"

by Matt Webb Mitovich

For those of you who Valerie Cherish'd HBO's The Comeback, here something to make you say, "I wanna see that!" The single-season look at a onetime sitcom queen's bid for a return to fame arrives on DVD this week, complete with extras, including an update on the horrific role Val has since been offered and a look at her Dancing with the Stars stint. TVGuide.com spoke with cocreator Lisa Kudrow, Emmy-nominated for playing the hapless actress, about her ongoing Comeback, Valerie's A-list "Angel" of a fan, and Madonna stealing her hair. TVGuide.com: First of all, congratulations on your Emmy nod! Lisa Kudrow: Thank you very much.

TVGuide.com: How surprised were you to see The Comeback remembered, with no less than three nominations?
Kudrow: I was pretty surprised. I kept hearing, "You're going to get a nomination," and thought, "Oh, that could be nice." [Chuckles] But we got three nominations, which was super-exciting. We had 13 episodes, went off the air, and then three nominations? Pretty extraordinary.

TVGuide.com: What have you submitted for your Emmy reel?
Kudrow: I submitted the finale. That was a very, very good episode.

TVGuide.com: You and cocreator Michael Patrick King offer DVD commentary. How fun was it to revisit the show like that?
Kudrow: Oh my god, we enjoyed every second of it. The nice thing that HBO did was let us write and shoot two completely original pieces for the DVD. Valerie does commentary on one episode and it's hilarious, if I do say so myself! She's like, "Well, I don't remember feeling that badly." [Laughs] "The camera goes in super-close so it makes it look like it's worse than it is."

TVGuide.com: I love how the DVD continues the whole show-within-a-show-within-a-show thing. For example, the extras' production crew has ostensibly been bankrolled by Valerie and [husband] Mark.
Kudrow: Yeah, it's like looking into a four-way mirror. It just keeps going!

TVGuide.com: I laughed out loud when Val mentions a TV-movie she was offered where she is raped by a whole town, but on top of that it was shooting in Nova Scotia.
Kudrow: "Get raped all day, nowhere to go out for dinner." Michael Patrick King comes up with zingers that are unbelievable. Valerie has no clue about what's appropriate. She thinks everything will come off looking cute. [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Was Robert Michael Morris more than happy to reprise his role as Mickey for the extras?
Kudrow: Yeah, he was. I also wanted [Laura Silverman as] Jane and [Dan Bucatinsky as] Billy the publicist, but we couldn't hire that many actors.

TVGuide.com: I was interested to learn that Cameron Diaz is a huge Comeback fan, and that's why she agreed to guest on the Leno episode.
Kudrow: Wasn't that nice of her? And she was uncomfortable at first, because she didn't want to be the reason the "beloved" Valerie doesn't get on Leno! [Laughs] I completely understood [her hesitation], so I said, "No, no, we'll just change it."

TVGuide.com: Have you heard similar affection for the show from others in the biz?
Kudrow: Yes, I have. One of the funny things is people, especially actors, are pretty guarded about their experiences. Everything is "OK," you know what I mean? I go on talk shows and do stuff for the show and I couldn't tell if the people interviewing me ever saw an episode or not. Then afterward they would take me aside and say, "In episode such-and-such? That happened to me!" And they'd tell me their story. But on air, they really distance themselves. Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't know what anyone is afraid of. Retribution? Maybe. But for what? We also got e-mails from a lot of writers and directors for shows that we respect, and we found out that on Monday morning they'd take at least an hour at work to talk about Sunday's episode of The Comeback. It was so flattering! So when we got canceled, we were kind of shocked, but we thought, "All right, but look at who liked it!"

TVGuide.com: Also on the extras is a "behind-the-scenes" at Val doing Dancing with the Stars. Might that have been an episode for Season 2?
Kudrow: Part of one, yeah. We thought it would be fun to say, "Here's what she's up to now." Whether there is a "Room & Bored" [on the air] or not, or "The Comeback" or not, she's still going to probably "go to New York and try for Broadway" or take a class at the Actors Studio.... She would keep going. We don't feel done with Valerie, I know that. We just don't feel done. It's too fun.

TVGuide.com: The cast has been doing well since. Malin Akerman ("Room & Bored" star Juna) was on Entourage, and just booked a Ben Stiller movie. The girl who played your daughter was on Gilmore Girls....
Kudrow: We had really good actors. Laura Silverman, Damian Young (Mark), Lance Barber (Paulie G) and Robert Bagnell (Tom)... all so good. Before we knew if we were getting picked up or not, some people at the networks would casually ask, "Do you know if you're picked up yet? Do you have a contract with Malin...?" They'd be asking who can they steal, basically. [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: I always wondered, was Valerie's fixation on her hair in any way a wink at all the fuss made over Jennifer Aniston's "the Rachel" hairdo on Friends?
Kudrow: No-o-o! Oh my god, no. No. Valerie was making a big deal out of her hairstyle, which was done like 15 years ago — or more!

TVGuide.com: And then Madonna went on to steal it!
Kudrow: Did you notice that?! That was extraordinary. I figured her hair guy was a big Comeback fan.

TVGuide.com: Perception-wise, is Phoebe a harder character for an actor to put behind them, versus some of the other Friends? Phoebe and Joey were the broader of the bunch.
Kudrow: That depends on who you talk to. I thought the characters were kind of broad, but then I meet people who'd say, "My best friend is exactly like Phoebe!" If I wanted to go back and be on an ensemble, four-camera, live-audience, brightly lit network show, then yeah, getting past me not being Phoebe would be really tricky. [But doing Friends] was nothing but a plus, for obvious reasons. It gave me the opportunity to do smaller independent films that are interesting, and that's why I got 13 episodes of The Comeback in the first place.

TVGuide.com: You and Dan Bucatinsky have a new production deal at NBC. Got anything cooking yet?
Kudrow: Oh, sure, we've got a few things that we're working on, but nothing I can talk about.

TVGuide.com: Anything where we might see you on camera?
Kudrow: No, no. No.

TVGuide.com: How will you make the decision whether to star in one of your projects or not?
Kudrow: The Comeback just lit every fire inside me. It was out of my control. And I haven't encountered anything [else] that felt out of my control yet.

7.30.06 - The first season of Friends is now available for download on iTunes. $1.99 per episode, or $27.99 for the entire season.

7.18.06 - TVGuide.com: In a sit-down with the U.K.'s Channel 4, Jennifer Aniston copped to missing her Friends alter ego of Rachel, then went on to open the door to a reunion special. "The only thing I can think of doing is, maybe for fun, a Thanksgiving episode," she said.

7.7.06 - People Online: Cool Brittania Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette — sun-kissed from their Sardinia getaway last week — make a sharp-dressed pair in London on Thursday.

7.6.06 - Lisa Kudrow was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series for her role as Valerie Cherish in The Comeback.

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6.16.06 - E!Online Fashion Police: Ex-Squeeze You?: We usually love Jennifer Aniston just the way she is. Unfortunately, Jen's classic style takes a nosedive at the London premiere of The Break-Up, where she trades her traditionally flattering little black dress for a flimsy gray frock with spaghetti-strap halter and revealing back cutout. That bandeau top barely fits over her breasts--in fact, we see spillage--and in this case, that's not a good thing. -->

6.15.06 - Jennifer Aniston was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for choice Movie Actress: Comedy, for her role in "The Break-Up." Teenagers can vote at TeenPeople.com, which has sponsored the balloting for several years, and at several sites owned by FOX parent News Corp.: MySpace.com, IGN.com and FOX.com. The awards will be handed out Aug. 20 on FOX, and teenagers can vote for the winners through Aug. 11. The nominees announced Thursday constitute "Wave One" of the process, with two more to come in the weeks leading up to the awards.

6.15.06 - People Online: Walk the Line Jennifer Aniston is all smiles Wednesday as she arrives at the London premiere of The Break-Up. The actress and her costar beau Vince Vaughn spent the previous day in Paris, where they shared an intimate dinner at the Plaza Athenée.

6.15.06 - TVGuide.com: A spokesperson for Jennifer Aniston rebuffs a tabloid-mag report that the actress and beau Vince Vaughn took a step toward the altar by recently picking out a $500,000, 9.5-carat, canary-diamond engagement ring. "They are not engaged," the rep tells the New York Daily News.

6.14.06 - People Online: City of (Candle)Light Back in Paris, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn enjoy a candlelit dinner at the ritzy Plaza Athenee on Tuesday. The couple are mixing pleasure with business as they tour Europe to promote The Break-Up.

6.14.06 - Lisa Kudrow is in a new indie office comedy called "Kabluey." The film will be directed by Scott Prendergast, and also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey's Anatomy's Denny).

6.14.06 - From TVGuide.com: Lisa Kudrow, whose first post-Friends TV effort, HBO's The Comeback, performed underwhelmingly, has inked a two-year development deal at NBC with production partner Dan Bucatinsky. The duo is already developing a TV adaptation of the book But Enough About Me, but Kudrow is said to be open to starring in a project if the right one comes along.

6.13.06 - People Online: Silver Belle Jennifer Aniston takes in the scene at a Hamburg, Germany, screening of The Break-Up on Monday. The actress and beau Vince Vaughn arrived in separate limos and kept their distance from each other during the evening's festivities.

6.12.06 - People Online: In Their Court Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are an island among the masses at the French Open in Paris, where they watched Spaniard Rafael Nadal defend his crown against Switzerland's Roger Federer in the men's final.

6.6.06 - People Online: Sweet Success Jennifer Aniston heads Down Under for the Sydney premiere of The Break-Up on Monday. The romantic comedy, costarring beau Vince Vaughn, debuted at No. 1 in the States despite a few bad reviews.

6.6.06 - People.com: Jen, Vince Go Fish Down Under Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn premiered The Break-Up Down Under on Monday – after visiting Australia's Sydney Aquarium.

A Sydney Aquarium rep tells PEOPLE's Australian sister magazine, Who, that the pair arrived around 11:30 a.m. with about six others for a tour of the Great Barrier Reef exhibit. Among the displays are clown fish (like those in Finding Nemo), and two varieties of sharks – the Blacktip reef shark and the Lemon shark.

Both stars fed the sharks by dropping the food on top of the water.

The guide who escorted the couple found them to be "very friendly and chatty and interested in learning about the fish," says the aquarium rep, who adds, "They weren't outwardly affectionate, but you could tell they were close to one another."

From the aquarium the group headed to Café Sydney, overlooking the city's harbor, for lunch (they shared a seafood platter); then it was a rest at their hotel before hitting the red carpet – separately, and so far apart they could not be photographed together.

Aniston wore her signature basic black – a sparkling strapless Armani. Asked by a reporter about the movie's love lessons, she replied, "Oh, what have I learned about relationships? You know, you learn nothing more from this movie than I think we learn from our real relationships. Which is communicate better, be as honest as you can be, and just try to do better."

Asked whether she would consider moving to Chicago, where The Break-Up was filmed (and where she and Vaughn are rumored to be house-hunting), Aniston told Who, "I would consider moving to Chicago, yeah. It's a great city." Her favorite thing about it? "The food."

Inside the theater, she and Vaughn appeared together onstage to answer questions before the screening. On Aniston's nude scene, Vaughn said, "That was the only day I was early, I was the last one to leave, and I said (to the crew): 'Guys, I know you think we got it, but we don't want to walk away from this scene too soon.' "

"Yeah," added Aniston. "That was a fun day."

Quipped Vaughn, "I saved you all from having to see me full naked. They get to see me and all my flab, but that's not really a selling point, Jen!"

To which Aniston replied, "That depends on whatever blows your hair back!"

6.5.06 - FX has ordered 13 episodes of a new show executive produced by and starring Courteney Cox. In the show, which is called Dirt, Cox stars as Lucy Spiller, editor-in-chief of two high-circulation celebrity-obsessed tabloids. The show is scheduled to go into production in August and will likely debut in early 2007. Also executive producing is Cox's husband, David Arquette. Matthew Carnahan, a writer producer on Thieves and Fastlane, created Dirt and will server as its showrunner. Also starring are Laura Allen ("The 4400") as an actress on the rise, Ian Hart ("Finding Neverland") as a photographer and Josh Stewart ("Third Watch") as an actor badly in need of a hit.

6.2.06 - People Online: Day of Beauty A little pampering goes a long way: Jennifer Aniston — who's been busy promoting The Break-Up — emerges refreshed from a New York City spa on Wednesday.

5.31.06 - People Online: Surf City Courteney Cox basks in the sunny weather during a beach stroll with pals near her Malibu home on Monday.

5.25.06 - People Online: City Girl In town to promote The Break-Up, Jennifer Aniston steps out of her New York hotel on Tuesday. Though she and beau Vince Vaughn have both been hitting the publicity circuit for the film, they've made sure to keep their distance from one another.

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5.23.06 - TVGuide.com Caught in the Act - Back on top: With her signature just-got-back-from-the-beach style, Jennifer Aniston managed to look triumphant and relaxed (finally!) at the premiere of The Break-Up. Brad who? -->

5.23.06 - People Online: Fan Favorite Jennifer Aniston gets up close and personal with fans Monday at the Los Angeles premiere of The Break-Up. But the actress was more reserved when it came to boyfriend and costar Vince Vaughn – the private couple kept their distance from each other until they entered the theater.

5.23.06 - TVGuide.com: Is Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn's romance — that is, the film they have hitting theaters June 2 — in trouble? A studio rep is discounting online reports that The Break-Up is fairing poorly with preview audiences, telling the New York Post, "Compared to Mission: Impossible III or The Da Vinci Code, the [tracking] numbers look small, but it's apples and oranges. For a romantic comedy, the numbers are very encouraging."

5.22.06 - People Online: Stepping Out Jennifer Aniston is chic in anything-but-basic black at a press day in Santa Monica for her film The Break-Up on Friday (the romantic comedy opens June 2). Also in attendance but arriving separately: beau and costar Vince Vaughn.

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5.16.06 - TVGuide.com Caught in the Act - Back to the tube: Amanda Peet and Matthew Perry donned their best business attire to rub elbows with ad execs and promote their new NBC drama, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. -->

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5.12.06 - E!Online Fashion Police: Class Act: Courteney Cox may have been a supporting player at the AFI event honoring husband David Arquette's family, but she still looks like a leading lady to us. Courteney wears a sheer tiered black-and-white Yves Saint Laurent frock that's belted at the waist with strappy sandals and a large locket necklace. The briefcase does have us confused, but maybe she's carrying it for David? -->

5.10.06 - TVGuide.com: Matthew Perry says that his new show, NBC's just-booked-for-fall series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, promises to be much more than a behind-the-scenes look at a Saturday Night Live-type series. "[Creator] Aaron Sorkin and [exec producer] Tommy Schlamme certainly know how to put on excellent, dramatic television," Perry tells TVGuide.com. "But the other thing I like about it, and what NBC likes about it, is it's kind of a show about how bad television has become. It even takes shots at NBC. It's a rather significant show for them, and hopefully for everybody." 5.10.06 - Don't miss Matthew Perry in TNT's The Ron Clark Story, premiering in August.

5.1.06 - From the May 1st issue of TV Guide: Talking with... David Schwimmer In his May 7 Broadway debut, David Schwimmer just might shed his goofy Ross Gellar image. The Friends grad (who grew up in Los Angeles in a house of theater buffs) will play a dead-serious defense attorney in a revival of tense military courtroom drama "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial." TV Guide caught up with the 39-year-old actor before opening night.

How does it feel to be on Broadway?
It has always been my dream. In some unconscious way, I knew that it was also my parents' secret dream. If I am really an actor, in my parents' eyes, the big time is Broadway.

What drew you to this play?
Honestly, it's just great writing. Every [military] play, whether it's "A Few Good Men" or "Defiance," and all the great TV courtroom dramas follow this play. This set the precedent.

Do you think a lot of Friends fans will turn up to see you on stage?
In London [for the Neil Labute drama "Some Girls"], it surprised me. My feeling is, hey, if the only reason they are coming is because they saw that TV show, then I am really happy to introduce them to the theater.

Will we see any of the Friends cast in the audience?
Boy, I hope when they're in New York, they will check it out.

Do you all still hang out?
I had lunch with Matt LeBlanc before I came out here, and I spoke to Courteney [Cox]. I bumped into Matt Perry. We keep in touch, but we haven't had a reunion or anything. —Rebecca Paley

4.12.06 - From TVGuide.com: Film fans have spoken, and they want Jennifer Aniston to ride off into the sunset with Vince Vaughn. The New York Post reports that as the result of poorly received test screenings, the lovers recently reshot the ending to their upcoming romantic comedy, The Break Up. "People want to see Jennifer happy after she was thrown over by Brad Pitt for Angelina Jolie," a source tells the paper. "And the original ending was... just too much of the same."

4.4.06 - From TVGuide.com: Matthew Perry and Piper Perabo are just "friends" now.

4.3.06 - Don't miss David Schwimmer on Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. The show begins previews on April 14th, and opening night is on May 7th.

3.31.06 - TVGuide.com: Yesterday, Matt LeBlanc filed for divorce from his wife of three years, Entertainment Tonight reports. Irreconcilable differences are said to have done in the union of the former Friend and his missus.

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3.29.06 - E!Online Fashion Polic: Old Faithful Jennifer Aniston's critics complain she's bland. We say the girl's found a classic look that works for her and she's sticking with it. The Friends with Money star walks the red carpet at her L.A. premiere with effortless elegance, wearing a ruffled black cocktail dress and gladiator-style stilettos. We say kudos to her sense of commitment--not everyone can be that faithful. -->

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3.28.06 - TVGuide.com Caught in the Act: Grin and bear it Either Jennifer Aniston is faking enthusiasm for the premiere of her new film, Friends with Money, or she's laughing to herself about the tattoo she got on the way to the show. -->

3.28.06 - TVGuide.com: "I'll be there for you...." "And so will I." "Me, too." "Count me in." "I'm game." "Eh, I dunno about this." That's pretty much the scenario that's being reported by Newsday regarding a Friends reunion. Five of the sextet were into the idea — and Kathleen Turner even claimed to have been approached about reprising the role of Chandler's father — but, Lisa Kudrow is being quoted as saying, "One member has said no. It's one of the guys. I'm gutted."

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3.24.06 - E!Online Fashion Police: Less than Zero Malibu beach bunny Jennifer Aniston and her buddy Vince Vaughn bundle up against the Aspen cold, but it looks like the mercury drop has put the duo's fashion sense into a deep freeze. She's shrouded in a bland 'n' boring wool scarf and hat, winter coat and weatherproof boots--and he's not much better. What's wrong, Jen? Isn't Vince keeping your fire burning? -->

3.21.06 - TVGuide.com: An ABC spokesperson scoffs at a tabloid-magazine report that Jennifer Aniston elected to give Today a sit-down interview (tied to the April 7 release of Friends with Money), if only out of spite because ABC's Diane Sawyer did a recent "puff piece" on ex-hubby Brad Pitt. The ABC flack tells the New York Daily News that the rumor is "utterly ridiculous."

3.1.06 - TVGuide.com: Friends alumna Courteney Cox is returning to series television, playing a muckraking tabloid-magazine editor — you know, the kind who persistently dogs Jennifer Aniston — in Dirt, a drama pilot for FX. Cox and hubby David Arquette are exec producers on the series.

2.27.06 - During an evening of readings to promote the paperback release of "The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life," onetime Jennifer Aniston roomie Nancy Balbirer detailed her story of "Jane," an actress pal who was "obsessed with her looks," "would give herself bikini waxes while lying upside down on the couch," "iced her nipples before auditions" and "got liposuction [and] a nose job" before landing a role on "a sitcom about friends who live together in [NYC]," a source relays to the New York Daily News. Balbirer added that when she herself landed a gig on said TV comedy, she was "inexplicably fired." Aniston's rep refutes many of the details, claiming that Balbirer is "using Jennifer to get attention."

1.27.06 - While Matthew Perry did, indeed, originally pass on the lead role in Aaron Sorkin's new show for NBC (previously known as Studio 7), apparently Sorkin was persistent, and finally Perry agreed to do it. The drama is set behind the scenes at a Saturday Night Live-type show. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Perry will play a genius comic writer who was forced out of his position as one of the sketch show's producers after a dispute with the network. Steven Weber will play the net's ambitious chairman, and D.L. Hughley one of the sketch show's stars.

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1.25.06 - E!Online Fashion Police: Class Act Jennifer Aniston does what any normal woman would do after her ex impregnates his sex-symbol mistress--cuddles up in a comfy sweater, some favorite jeans and leg-lengthening wedge boots. Kudos to the Friends with Money star for not hiding out and drowning her sorrows in Häagen-Dazs. -->

1.18.06 - Matthew Perry has passed on the lead role in Aaron Sorkin's latest show, Studio 7.

1.11.06 - Last night, Jennifer Aniston won a special People's Choice Award for Olay Total Effects Fans Favorite Look.

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1.6.06 - E!Online Fashion Police: Jersey Girl At first glance, Courteney Cox looks adorably down-to-earth in a comfy white pullover, jeans and sneakers. Hey, even celebrities deserve a day off from the fancy duds. But what's with the Bon Jovi era-inspired fringe bag? Courteney, if you keep abusing dress-down day like this, we will have to take it away from you.

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12.21.05 - TV Guide Caught in the Act - If Brad could see me now: Jennifer Aniston makes funny faces to compete with Mark Ruffalo's '70s porn-star look at the premiere of their movie, Rumor Has It. Or maybe there's something in her teeth. -->

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12.19.05 - E!Online Fashion Police - Familiar Fodder: Jennifer Aniston looks nice enough at the Los Angeles Rumor Has It premiere in a boring strapless Calvin Klein gown. Her film career has taken off, but her look sure has stayed the same. Okay, Brad, now we get it. Same old, same old. Time to spice it up, Jen! How about some tats, an international orphan or a vial of Brad's blood? Oh, you'd prefer the latter? -->

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12.15.05 - E!Online Fashion Police - Straight Shooter: Courteney Cox looks just peachy in her Christian Dior straight skirt and fitted print jacket at the EIF Women's Cancer Research Fund bash in Los Angeles. This slightly serious suiting befits the former Friend's new gig producing the TV show Daisy Does America. And no, it's not on the Playboy Channel. -->

12.12.05 - David Schwimmer will make his Broadway debut in '06 in a revival of "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial."

12.12.05 - The Italian tabloid Grazia reports that Jennifer Aniston had a champagne-soaked bonfire on the beach and burned her old love letters from Brad Pitt and her wedding gown. Who knows if it's true....

12.7.05 - Michael Ausiello of TV Guide Online reports that Aaron Sorkin has approached Matthew Perry to play the lead in his new NBC drama, Studio 7. In addition, Sorkin is putting out feelers to see if Perry's "Whole Nine Yards" co-star Amanda Peet might be interested as a co-lead.

12.7.05 - E!Online: Paparazzo Snaps Back at Aniston The naked truth: The shutterbug who snapped photos of a topless Jennifer Aniston is sorry. Sort of. Peter Brandt told ABC News Radio Tuesday that he never intended to sell the titillating pictures, but that sending them to publications along with other photos was "maybe my mistake." More...

12.5.05 - E!Online: Aniston Orders Cover-Up If you want to see Jennifer Aniston's bosom, you're going to have to buy GQ. The actress, showing off one of her Friends in profile on the December cover of the men's magazine, has launched a preemptive war against pictures that let them all hang out. More...

12.2.05 - TV Guide Online reports that Vince Vaughn (with Jennifer Aniston as a passenger) was pulled over by Scottsdale, AZ police on Tuesday. He was given a sobriety test, but was declared below the legal blood-alcohol level of 0.08. "We determined [Vaughn] had something to drink," an officer tells the Associated Press, "[so] we suggested that he not continue to drive." After Vaughn deposited his car at a nearby resort, he and Aniston grabbed a ride with a friend who had been following them.

12.1.05 - Matt LeBlanc's spin-off, Joey, will not be aired by NBC during its coverage of the winter Olympics, but should be back once the Olympics are over.

12.1.05 - "Friends with Money," a comedy costarring Jennifer Aniston and Frances McDormand, has been picked to open the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, running Jan. 19-27.

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11.30.05 - TV Guide Caught in the Act - They mean funny business: Power couple David Arquette and Courteney Cox continued their Coquette empire-building at the premiere of the TBS comedy series they produced, Daisy Does America. -->

11.28.05 - Courteney Cox will be returning to TV, but as a producer on her husband, David Arquette's, new as-yet-untitled ABC show about a private eye who is reunited with his ex-wife and son after a long separation. Everybody Loves Raymond writer-producer Jeremy Stevens is also on board to tap out the script and share exec-producing duties with the couple.

11.23.05 - Michael Ausiello from TVGuide.com reports that Adam Goldberg — aka Chandler's obsessive roommate, Eddie — will show up on Joey in December playing a completely different character: a high-school chum of Joey's named Jimmy. As of now, it's just one episode, but considering the huge twist that's in store for Jimmy, I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing him again.

11.15.05 - Zap2It.com: Aniston Is Topless Man of the Year or the first time ever, GQ's Man of the Year is missing the Y chromosome. No, it's not a genetic mutation. The lucky man is a woman -- Jennifer Aniston, to be precise. The 10th annual Man of the Year issue features a topless Aniston -- technically their (Wo)Man of the Year -- on the cover and inside in a photo spread. Her naughty bits are discretely obscured. More...

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11.14.05 - TV Guide Online: Lisa Kudrow Seeks More Happy Days

by Matt Webb Mitovich

On the occasion of the DVD release of the summer film Happy Endings — in which Lisa Kudrow plays Mamie, an abortion counselor searching for the son she had as a teenager and gave up for adoption — TVGuide.com caught up with the actress to discuss her own massage experiences, the unfortunate fate of HBO's The Comeback, and whether Phoebe might ever drop in on her pal Joey.

TVGuide.com: In Happy Endings you and your masseur boyfriend make a fake documentary about the extra-special treatment he gives women. Ever have a crush on a masseur?
Lisa Kudrow: Oh, no. [Laughs] I prefer to be massaged by women.

TVGuide.com: Was it just a big ol' coincidence that your first big post-Friends project was about Phoebe's profession?
Kudrow: Oh, my gosh! A complete coincidence. That is a funny coincidence.

TVGuide.com: Happy Endings, The Comeback, Friends... Why are you so good at playing "awkward" moments?
Kudrow: "Awkward" is the thing that cracks me up the most, so that's my favorite kind of comedy.

TVGuide.com: Should people be surprised to see Tom Arnold so effective in his dramatic Happy Endings role?
Kudrow: He was so good — oh, my gosh. I know him and he's a lovely man.

TVGuide.com: I'll be interviewing him in a few days. He has a Christmas-sy TV-movie coming out.
Kudrow: Oh, he does? Because he also has that [feature] movie, The Kid & I [in theaters Dec. 2], which is supposed to be really good. Tom is just the nicest guy.

TVGuide.com: I loved The Comeback and talked it up to friends, even though, I have to say, I found Val's life at times depressing.
Kudrow: Why, because her house was really nice and she had a husband who loved her?

TVGuide.com: Fair point. But she always fell short of getting her due. What sort of feedback did you personally get on the series?
Kudrow: People loved it. To me what was interesting was just the range of experiences and perceptions people had with The Comeback. For some people, Valerie was just, "Oh my god, how pathetic! When is she going to stand up for herself?" And other people saw her as unbelievably strong. She let [show-within-a-show headwriter] Paulie G. do his stupid stuff and say his stupid things, but she kept her eye on the prize. The other thing that amazed me was that no one questioned her pride. No one questioned why it was so important that someone mention her in a [People's Choice Award acceptance] speech. Why is it so important that the paparazzi is taking your picture?

TVGuide.com: She just seemed to need validation.
Kudrow: But why do you need validation from there? [Laughs] You have a husband who loves you, you have a nice house, you're in good health, so is your husband....

TVGuide.com: Val took a lot of flack from the "Room and Bored" writers, namely Paulie G. Are sitcom scribes such sacred cows in real life?
Kudrow: I think every actor-writer relationship is unique, but they're definitely the boss. It's their show, they created it and they basically have the final word.

TVGuide.com: Were you more outspoken on Friends than Val was?
Kudrow: It was a different relationship. The six of us were treated differently. Our writers, David [Crane] and Marta [Kauffman] and Kevin Bright...

TVGuide.com: Not a Paulie G. in the bunch?
Kudrow: No, no, and they behaved more collaboratively.

TVGuide.com: But there probably are Paulie G.s out there.
Kudrow: Yeah, there are. We had a whole staff of writers who understood how to write the writers.

TVGuide.com: Was there anyone you wanted to guest-star on the show?
Kudrow: Yeah, Diane Keaton.

TVGuide.com: You, along with Michael McKean and Jennifer Coolidge, lent your voice to IFC's animated Hopeless Pictures. Was that a lot of fun?
Kudrow: Oh, yeah. It was so fun. I would just get on the phone and be the ex-wife [of McKean's character]. It was really fun.

TVGuide.com: Much of it is ad-libbed. Were you OK with that?
Kudrow: I loved that. I started in the Groundlings [improv group], but that's a different kind of ad-libbing.

TVGuide.com: What's next for you? A sequel to Analyze That? "Analyze Another Thing?"
Kudrow: [Laughs] I don't think so.

TVGuide.com: Do you no longer get offered Phoebe-type roles?
Kudrow: I get offered a lot of interesting independent-film stuff. And since Wonderland, I don't get offered anything like Phoebe. So that's all good. But I don't know what's next.

TVGuide.com: Well, worst case, Phoebe could easily drop in on Joey, flit in and out of his life.
Kudrow: Phoebe got married by the end of [Friends], so maybe I left Mike and I'm visiting?

TVGuide.com: She went from famine to feast at the end there, having to choose between Hank Azaria and Paul Rudd!
Kudrow: Please, it was like that the whole series! We always joked that Phoebe was the biggest, uh, whore of all!

11.10.05 - TV Guide Online: ABC has made a pilot commitment to a half-hour comedy from Friends show-runner Shana Goldberg, about two sisters raised in very different (i.e., rich versus poor) environments.

11.8.05 - Zap2It.com: Aniston Prefers Discussing Dog Over Vaughn Although Jennifer Aniston is keeping her mouth shut about her relationship with "The Break Up" co-star Vince Vaughn, she's only too happy discuss other topics, including her latest film and her dog. More...

11.8.05 - Ted Casablanca of E!Online said that Matthew Perry was recently seen at the L.A. club Mood... in fact, he's there all the time lately.

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11.4.05 - EOnline Fashion Police: Executive Privilege Look, Jennifer Aniston made a great executive fashion decision! Spotted in New York in appropriate casual Friday gear--a sleek, polished jacket, politely faded jeans, swingy hair and a hefty black satchel--she looks like a Manhattan career gal headed out for happy hour. And when you see her in Derailed, you'll know what that could lead to. Word of advice, guys: Do not let her buy your Amtrak ticket. -->

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11.4.05 - EOnline Fashion Police: Battle Dress Take that, Angelina! Jennifer Aniston flexes her muscles in a sexy gold lamé frock with an impressive winter glow, thanks to all those well-photographed Malibu beach strolls. Unfortunately, she's at the New York premiere of her new film, Derailed--not some global Save the Children summit. That's not likely to impress her do-gooder ex. Maybe next time, Jen? -->

11.4.05 - TV Guide Online: WATCH DUTY Matt LeBlanc is producing The Watch, a sci-fi horror thriller to be directed by Jeepers Creepers helmer Victor Salva, per the Hollywood Reporter. Set in World War II, the flick revolves around a team of soldiers who are being terrorized by an evil spirit unleashed by the Nazis.

11.2.05 - TV Guide Online: Jen Calls Tabs "Bizarre" In an interview airing tonight on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, headline magnet Jennifer Aniston says today's tabloid journalism is "at a bizarre all-time high," but luckily she is able to dodge the muckraking. "I don't live in a city where I'm walking by newsstands; I'm in a car driving by them. So, unless I'm going to hurt myself while driving or p--s a lot of people off, I just don't pay attention."

11.1.05 - E!Online: Aniston House Crasher Jail Bound re's one unwanted friend that won't be visiting Jennifer Aniston for a long while. David Hesterbey, a transient who broke into Aniston's Malibu digs in August, pleaded no contest Tuesday to one burglary count stemming from the house-crashing. In turn, Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Karen Nudell sentenced him to one year in jail and five years' probation, and ordered him to keep away from the actress for the next decade. More...

10.31.05 - From the October 31st issue of TV Guide (accompanying a picture): Not exactly Central Perk Former Friends star Matthew Perry spent October 12 and 13 in New York City filming TNT's original movie The Ron Clark Story, a real-life tale of a small-town teacher who moves to Manhattan to work at one of the city's toughest public schools. Here, Perry, who plays the title role, shoots a scene on 117th Street in East Harlem.

10.24.05 - From Kristin at E!Online: Okay, I know not all of you share my love for HBO's recently tragically canceled series The Comeback, but at the very least, you can share my love for Lisa Kudrow, right? 'Cause after running into her at the Lili Claire Foundation Benefit last weekend, I am once again completely obsessed. And rocking myself in the fetal position.

I finally got to deliver the message to Valerie/Lisa that we so loved her show, and she could not have been more adorably excited to hear the praise. When asked if she'd seen the campaign to save The Comeback, she beamed, "Yeah! Isn't that great? I loved it!" But she also had some sad news for us fans holding out hope that another network might pick it up: "That won't happen," she said. "It would be too hard to cut in with commercials, and it wouldn't really fit on another network."

Of course, what we really want to know is the number-one question asked in the wake of any devastating tragedy: Why, God, why?! Lisa said she was given "a bunch of reasons" for the show's cancellation, one of them being that the show was too expensive.

"I guess HBO just isn't HBO anymore," Lisa mused, referring to the HBO of yesteryear that took chances on slow builders like Curb Your Enthusiasm. But the saddest news of all is what Lisa said when asked if she's planning any new TV projects. "No," she said flatly. "Where would I go from here?"

10.18.05 - Ted Casablancas of E!Online reports that Jennifer Aniston has been publicly canoodling with her co-star from the movie "Break Up," Vince Vaughn.

10.12.05 - New York Times: After Years of 'Friends,' Producer's Solo - On a recent afternoon, Marta Kauffman leaned back on a black couch in her no-frills office on the WB lot here to talk about the new series she is producing, "Related," which is shown on Wednesday nights at 9. Then, a gentle tapping on the door preceded the entrance of Eric Goldberg, Ms. Kauffman's curly haired, bespectacled personal assistant, who got down on one knee and held a sotto voce conference with his boss about a minor filming difficulty. Five minutes later Mr. Goldberg was back, again assuming the marriage proposal position and whispering, this time about a problem requiring on-set resolution. Ms. Kauffman removed her black leather sneakers from the coffee table, straightened her rectangular red plastic eyeglasses and wrapped up the interview with a shrug. "There's no one else," she explained matter-of-factly. "It's just me." More...

10.11.05 - David Crane, along with the creator of UPN's Half & Half, Jeffrey Klarik, has gotten a 13-episode commitment from CBS for a sitcom called The Class for the Fall, 2006 season. The Class will follow a group of twentysomethings who, having first become friends in the third grade, are reunited after losing touch with one another over the years.

10.3.05 - With their marriage now officially (legally) over, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt have put their Beverly Hills home on the market for a cool $28 million. The French Normandy-style estate, purchased four years ago for less than half that amount, boasts Brazilian mahogany floors, an art studio, a pub, a tennis court and a screening room.

9.20.05 - HBO has opted not to renew Lisa Kudrow's show The Comeback, which wrapped its debut season on August 28th.

9.15.05 - David Hesterbey, the homeless man who scaled a 9-foot fence and entered the Pacific Coast Highway home of Jennifer Aniston in late August, has been ordered by a judge to stay at least 100 yards away from the Friends alumna for a period of three years. -TV Guide Online

9.1.05 - ABC's Diane Sawyer has landed Jennifer Aniston's first sit-down, tell-all interview since her separation from Brad Pitt, the New York Post reports. Look for ABC to trumpet the juicy Q&A in the coming weeks.

8.31.05 - TV Guide Online: Friends Vet Plots Her Return

by Matt Webb Mitovich

In 1994, Marta Kauffman and cocreator David Crane gave the world six good Friends. Now, two years after that long-running series' celebrated swan song, Kauffman is back executive-producing a new show. Where her previous creations were, well, friends, now she is telling a story about people who are Related — nd sexy Sorelli sisters of New York City, played by Jennifer Esposito (Spin City), Kiele Sanchez (Married to the Kellys), Lizzy Caplan (Freaks and Geeks) and Laura Breckenridge — in WB's new single-camera comedy (premiering Oct. 5).

"I know it's kind of soon after Friends," Kauffman admits. "It kind of surprised me, too. But I am truly honored to be working on this show." Related, she promises, "has the camaraderie and sexiness" of Sex and the City plus "the warmth of humor of Friends — and the urban neurosis of both." And while on paper it may seem to echo a onetime NBC series about sibs, she points out, "This is not a melodrama [and] it doesn't have the sappier sentiment that Sisters did.

"In addition," Kauffman quips, "I'm not sure that the sisters on Sisters ever saw each other naked. I think the Sorelli girls have."

Why the choice of Related for her return to network television, versus a traditional three-camera, Friends-style sitcom? "To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself," says Kauffman. "I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle."

And how has Kauffman prepared for — to steal the title of former Friend Lisa Kudrow's show — the comeback? Has she ferociously scouted out the competition? Surprisingly, she admits, "I have not been checking in on a lot of comedy. For me, the idea of spending a lot of time watching Joey is kind of depressing because — talk about denial! — it indicates that Friends is over."

8.29.05 - E!Online: Alleged Aniston Crasher Charged Jennifer Aniston's allegedly uninvited beach house guest might soon have a new address: Prison. David Hesterbey, 48, is facing a six-year stint behind bars after being charged Monday in Los Angeles with felony burglary for his alleged visit to Aniston's Malibu rental. More...

8.22.05 - As of Friday, August 19th, Jennifer Aniston's divorce from Brad Pitt is official. The marital partnership, which lasted four and a half years, will be dissolved on paper on Sunday, Oct. 2 -- six months after the divorce papers were served.

8.21.05 - In an article on TV's Top 20 Catchphrases in the August 21 issue of of TV Guide, "How you doin'?" is ranked #4. The creators of Friends were against character catchphrases. According to cocreator and executive producer David Crane, "It seemed hokey." Just the same, the pickup line was slipped into the script in 1998. "Suddenly," Crane says, "Joey had a catchphrase. It became an easy laugh, so we had to watch ouselves [to not] overuse it. You don't want to be a how-you-doin' whore."

8.2.05 - Matthew Perry has been cast in the lead role of The Ron Clark Story, an upcoming TNT original movie about the acclaimed East Harlem, NY teacher.

8.2.05 - TV Guide online reports that Jennifer Aniston admits to being "lonely," "upset" and "confused" by the dissolution of her marriage to Brad Pitt and her hubby's subsequent closeness with Angelina Jolie. "That really p----- me off," she tells Vanity Fair, referring to published stories suggesting that she didn't want to give Pitt a family. "I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!" While Aniston allows that Pitt and Jolie's W pictorial (promoting Mr. & Mrs. Smith with a "family album") was in poor taste, she says, "I choose to believe my husband" and his claims that he didn't bed Jolie before their separation. "I will love [Brad] for the rest of my life. I really do hope that someday we can be friends again." Awww, look at her giving Friends a plug amid all of this.

7.31.05 - Zap2It.com reports that Michael Baroni, who was going to sell on eBay his memorabilia from dating Jennifer Aniston when they were both teenagers, has acquiesced to a plea by Aniston's representatives saying that the star would really rather he not put up for sale a birthday message she supposedly wrote on a scrap of toilet paper.

Baroni's auction was slated to go live on eBay on Friday, July 29 with an attached reserve of $100,000. Since it was announced early last week that Baroni would be auctioning off the relationship debris from the summer of 1984, three fake auctions have cropped up on the popular auction site.

Baroni claims that following their fling, he and Aniston were friends until 1991 when her career began to take off. In addition to the toilet paper birthday card, the lot would also have included the page from Baroni's address book with Aniston's contact information (from that time), a photo of them hugging from when they first met, a mash note from Aniston, an autographed photo from the cast of "Friends" and a copy of In Touch magazine containing an article about their relationship.

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7.27.05 - EOnline Fashion Police: Friend of Days But why so glum, Monica? Courteney Cox sure keeps a straight face at MTV's TRL, even while looking cute in the green silk sundress, black beads and flat sandals. Just because Joey did a sitcom, Chandler hosted the ESPY Awards, Rachel made a movie with Vince Vaughn, Phoebe's on HBO and you really haven't done squat, that's no reason to look so depressed. Okay, maybe it is. -->

7.26.05 - TV Guide Online reports that Michael Baroni, who dated Jennifer Aniston in 1984, is now a lawyer in California, and is offering up on eBay a vast collection of keepsakes from his teen courtship with Aniston, including a birthday card she wrote to him on a sheet of toilet paper and the actual page from Baroni's address book book with Aniston's phone number. Baroni says the collection, which he hopes will nab $100,000, "shows an innocent look into someone I think is very endearing."

6.15.05 - TV Guide reports that Matthew Perry has split up with his girlfriend of two years, ex-fashion student Rachel Dunn. "There was no drama involved," a source tells People, "just a commitment by Matthew to stay focused on his sobriety."

6.10.05 - Matthew Perry will host the 2005 ESPY Awards, airing July 17th on ESPN.

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6.06.05 - TV Guide: Lisa Kudrow's Big Comedy Comeback

by Craig Tomashoff

Did you see last night's premiere of HBO's The Comeback (Sundays, 9:30 pm/ET)? This certainly looks suspicious.

Valerie Cherish starred in a hit sitcom during the '90s. Lisa Kudrow starred in a hit sitcom during the '90s. Valerie Cherish is returning to TV with a new comedy. Lisa Kudrow is returning to TV with a new comedy. Valerie Cherish is seriously self-absorbed and desperately career-obsessed. Lisa Kudrow is...

"OK, there's no element of her life that collides with mine," says a smiling Kudrow, 41, taking a break from filming. "I don't worry about what she worries about. Some of the Valerie stuff comes from observations of ego-based, needy people, not just actors. People who have everything — great spouse, great children, no financial needs — but can't feel alive unless they have drama."

After Friends finished its 10-year run last spring, Kudrow seemed ready to spend more time at home with husband Michel Stern and 7-year-old son Julian, as well as make feature films like the upcoming Happy Endings. Then she had lunch with writer and producer Michael Patrick King, who was still recovering from the end of his series, Sex and the City.

"Neither of us was eager to do [a series] again," Kudrow says. "We both said we'd take a break and do it again when it's right. When that happens, I'll know it. And I knew it at that lunch."

"She said, 'I want to do this character,'" King says, "and talked about a woman who thinks she's more talented and important and genuine than she is. Then she started doing the character and I started laughing. We thought, 'How about setting her in the sitcom world, since we both know that world?'"

Even though Valerie ends up on an exceedingly average comedy called Room and Bored, The Comeback also takes place in the world of reality TV. As Valerie tries to regain her 15 minutes of fame by playing a dowdy aunt to some sexy twentysomethings, a camera crew documents every (mostly wrong) move she makes for a reality show also called The Comeback.

"What reality TV has that I love is villains," King says. "Manipulated villains, with the soap-opera angle."

Adds Kudrow, a fan of America's Next Top Model and The Amazing Race: "Valerie thinks she can control this [fake reality show]."

Most of the time, though, the joke is on her. The Comeback is as sassy and snarky as Friends was cute and cuddly, a major departure for Kudrow that made this HBO series "the only way I could be back on a TV set." Her new show also offers her the chance to do something else she could never do on Friends — write some of the episodes.

"I'm not surprised she's writing. She's got a great work ethic," says former costar Matt LeBlanc, whose Friends spin-off, Joey, will be back for a second season. "My only advice to her is that the first year is hard. Don't compare it to the last year of Friends."

6.04.05 - Zap2It.com: Kudrow Makes a Welcome 'Comeback' - Forty is a dangerous age for any Hollywood actress -- especially if she's Valerie Cherish, the hilariously neurotic star of "The Comeback," which begins a 13-episode HBO run on Sunday, June 5. Back in her salad days, Valerie (Emmy winner Lisa Kudrow, "Friends") snagged a People's Choice Award for her work in "I'm It!" -- a workplace sitcom that eked out a modest run of 97 episodes and added a chimp to its cast before expiring. More...

5.12.05 - MTV has ordered a pilot from married producers David Arquette and Courteney Cox about a crime-fighting squirrel who takes on neighborhood villains. Titled Dirt Squirrel, the project is being described by The Hollywood Reporter as a "quirky live-action/animation hybrid." Arquette, aided by a costume and prosthetics, will play the title character, who is aided in his unselfish tasks by his merry band of helpers, known as the League of Super Nuts: skateboarder Merlin Ipswich and 'rebel grrrl' Jeannie Ipswich, played by Jeff Braine and Brittany Finamore. Cox will have a role in the pilot as one of the villains.

5.5.05 - Lisa Kudrow's new HBO show, The Comeback, will premiere on June 5th at 10:30pm ET.

3.28.05 - Jennifer Aniston formally filed for divorce Friday from husband Brad Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences. In the petition, Aniston requested that Pitt not be awarded spousal support and that her maiden name be restored.

3.17.05 - The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jennifer Aniston has been cast opposite Vince Vaughn in the Universal comedy "The Break Up."

3.7.05 - Zap2It.com: Aniston Named Female Star of the Year - Former "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston, who is of Greek descent, will be celebrating the luck of the Irish in Las Vegas. The 36-year-old starlet will spend her St. Patrick's Day, March 17, being honored as ShoWest 2005's Female Star of the Year, according to The Hollywood Reporter....

2.14.05 - Matthew Perry was briefly hospitalized in Los Angeles last week after reportedly suffering a bad reaction to prescription medication.

1.10.05 - Matt LeBlanc won Favorite Male TV Star and Joey won Favorite New Television Comedy Series at the People's Choice Awards last night.

1.10.05 - Jennifer Aniston and her husband, Brad Pitt, have confirmed that they are separating after nearly five years of marriage. "For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any speculation reported by the tabloid media," they said in a joint statement. "This decision is the result of much thoughtful consideration. We happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another."

12.21.04 - Zap2It.com: Kudrow, Gyllenhaal Catch the Sundance Spirit - "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern will kick off the Sundance Film Festival with their indie film "Happy Endings" on the same day they're honored with the Spirit of Sundance Award....

11.29.04 - Jennifer Aniston is in talks to star in the indie movie "Friends With Money," also starring Oscar nominees Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack, and Oscar winner Frances McDormand. The films revolves around a group of rich friends.

11.23.04 - The Hollywood Reporter reports that the comedy series, The Comeback, which is being developed for Lisa Kudrow by former Sex and the City helmer Michael Patrick King, has received a 13-episode order from HBO. The show stars Lisa Kudrow as a former sitcom star who is trying to revive her career.

11.23.04 - TV Guide Online: Matthew Perry Scrubs In

by Daniel R. Coleridge

Still wondering if you'll really see any of Matt LeBlanc's old Friends visit Joey? Us, too! Especially since the spin-off's been, shall we say, "creatively challenged" since its start. For his part, Matthew Perry — aka Joey's ex-roomie, Chandler Bing — says the Chan Chan Man and Co. have no plans to wing their way out to L.A. anytime soon.

"No, that's not come up," Perry explains. "I think that's gonna come up a little bit later, once they really get going. Maybe in Year 2, we'll pop by."

Erm, if there is a second year, that is. Meanwhile, Perry's back on NBC's air tonight in Scrubs (9:30 pm/ET), where he's working behind the camera lens as well as in front of it. "It was kind of an offer to do both," he chuckles. "'Come be on Scrubs and we'll let you direct.' The show runner, Bill Lawrence, wrote for the first year of Friends. He's been a friend for a long time."

The sitch: Perry and his father, actor John Bennett Perry, are portraying father and son on screen, too. "[My character's] a loser," he laughs. "That was fun to play. The story line is my father needs a kidney and I have to give him one of mine. We have a contentious relationship and I don't want to give it to him. That's where Zach Braff comes in and helps us out.

"My father took direction great," Perry notes. "He's also a wonderful musician, and we were able to incorporate him playing guitar into the show."

Rather than come onto the Sacred Heart Hospital set like some big man, Perry humbly viewed his directorial debut as an educational experience. "I'd like to follow in the footsteps of young Zach Braff and direct a movie someday," he says. "I found that directing a one-camera show has taught me enough to possibly fake my way through directing [my own] little movie.

"There's no talk about me stopping acting," he adds, by way of reassuring fans. "I'm [starting filming on] a drama called Two Weeks with multiple Academy Award-winner Sally Field in January. I've been offered [opportunities] to direct things in the past, but simply didn't know how. Now I know how, so I want to do both."

11.19.04 - Zap2It.com: Perry Calls 'Scrubs' Stint a 'Gift' - Thanksgiving is a perfect holiday for reuniting with old family and friends. Or, in the case of NBC's "Scrubs," it's a ideal time to reunite old "Friends" with their family. Matthew Perry, away from television screens since a certain long-running comedy went off the air in May, makes his directorial debut with this Tuesday's (Nov. 23) "Scrubs," an episode in which he also co-stars with his father, actor John Bennett Perry....

10.19.04 - Dennis Hopper, along with Chris Alberghini, Mike Chessler and Matt LeBlanc's Fort Hill Prods are developing a comedy project starring Hopper as a free thinking dad who goes to live with his son and not so free thinking daughter in law. With him he brings a new 2-year old daughter, and his free thinking ways bleeds into his parenting skills. The project will be produced by Warner Bros. Television and will be on the pitch road the next couple of weeks.

10.12.04 - Kristin at E!Online reports that Matthew Perry will be guest starring on an upcoming episode of Scrubs on NBC and also plans to direct an episode later this season.

10.6.04 - The Hollywood Reporter reports that Matt LeBlanc is thisclose to selling the WB on a drama series about the relationship between a father and son after the older son dies. LeBlanc would not act in the show, he would be a producer.

10.1.04 - Joey is the second fall show of the season on any network to get picked up for a full season.

9.27.04 - David Schwimmer and Celebrity Poker regular Ben Affleck have signed on to star in a mostly improvised big-screen comedy set at an international poker tournament, Variety reports. Zak Penn ("Incident at Loch Ness") will direct.

9.22.04 - E!Online Fashion Police: Toga Toga Just call her Jennifer of Troy. Jennifer Aniston sloppily hangs loose with tousled hair, chandelier earrings and a strapless gold-beaded Grecian goddess gown by Chanel. Hey, isn't this a leftover from Brad's gladiator movie? "It's a little bohemian, raggy thing with a little bling-bling," she admits. Too bad the dress looks like it already launched a thousand ships.

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9.20.04 - TV Guide Online - Trophy husband: Jennifer Aniston may not have won an Emmy, but she gets to go home with the best prize of all – Brad Pitt.

9.20.04 - Courteney Cox is reportedly talking to HBO about a series project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cox would play an actress on a comeback trail and adjusting to life as a recovering alcoholic.

9.20.04 - The word is out about Lisa Kudrow's new comedy on HBO. It will be called The Comeback, and Kudrow will be playing a former sitcom star staging a comeback, however she will not be playing herself.

9.15.04 - David Schwimmer is suing Hollywood charity promoter Aaron Tonken for slander, Celebrity Justice reports. Tonken recently told the National Enquirer that Schwimmer refused participation in a fund-raiser unless he was gifted with two expensive Rolex watches. In court papers, Schwimmer denies this, calling Tonken "a scheming, pathological liar, bent on castigating celebrities by concocting bogus stories." It should be noted that last month Tonken was sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to mail and wire fraud relating to phony charity events.

9.7.04 - Season 8 will be out on DVD on November 9th.

8.31.04 - David Schwimmer has signed on to diret the indie comdey "Run, Fat Boy, Run" which is centered on an overweight guy who leaves his fiancée on their wedding day only to discover years later that he really loves her.

8.26.04 - Ted at E!Online reports that Courteney Cox and David Arquette were seen shoveling scrumptious grub into their smallish mouths at Toast. Third Street. Hell-Ay. Sweet pea Coco-baby was not invited, so Mom and Pops enjoyed an uninterrupted meal with another guy-girl couple. A lightly sun-kissed Court-babe flaunted a very voluptuous chest in a low-cut tank--don't hear grungy David complaining! While digging into a huge salad, Mr. A.'s wifey-poo swiftly stole fries from her hubby's plate, like, eight times! Order your own deep-fried sticks, doll.

8.26.04 - TV Guide Online reports that serial guest star Aisha Tyler (Friends, Nip/Tuck) has landed multi-episode gigs on CSI and 24 this season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the former Talk Soup hostess will play a quirky scientist on CSI and a CTU data analyst on 24.

8.25.04 - Zap2It.com: 'Friends' Vets Count to 'Three' at CBS - Moving on from their run on NBC's hit comedy "Friends," producers Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen are starting a relationship with CBS. The duo's relationship comedy "Three" has received a pilot order from the network....

8.24.04 - Matt LeBlanc will be a presenter at the 56th annual Primetime Emmys, which will air on Sunday, September 19th, on ABC.

8.10.04 - Rob Reiner has replaced Ted Griffin as the director of Warner Bros.' updated version of "The Graduate," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Griffin, who penned the screenplay, apparently clashed with the cast, including star Jennifer Aniston. Graduate would have been his directorial debut. Production resumes Aug. 18.

7.28.04 - TV Guide reports that HBO is turning to some old friends in hopes of finding its next big comedy hit. Sex and the City writer Michael Patrick King is developing a new half-hour series starring Lisa Kudrow. The project is being kept hush-hush -- so much so that an HBO spokesperson wasn't even aware of it. Kudrow's reps, meanwhile, didn't return phone calls.

7.23.04 - Jennifer Aniston has been cast opposite British actor Clive Owen in the upcoming Miramax thriller "Derailed," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is based on James Siegel's best-selling novel about a married ad exec whose life takes an unpredictable turn when he misses his train to work.

7.23.04 - Newcomer Andrea Anders has landed the pivotal role of Joey's next-door neighbor (and possible love interest) on Joey, NBC now confirms. Anders replaces Ashley Scott, who was let go last month for creative reasons. Anders, who had a small role in this summer's Stepford Wives remake, beat out several actresses for the coveted gig.

7.15.04 - Friends received 7 Emmy nominations: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Matt LeBlanc), Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Jennifer Aniston), Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (Danny DeVito), Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Christina Applegate), Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series ("The One With Phoebe's Wedding"), Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series ("The Last One"), and Outstanding Multi-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series or Special ("The Last One"). In addition, Matthew Perry was nominated for an award as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role on "The West Wing," and "The One Before The Last One - 10 Years Of Friends" was nominated Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. The awards ceremony will air live on ABC on Sunday, September 19th, from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, and will be hosted by Garry Shandling.

7.13.04 - Ireland On-Line reports that Matt LeBlanc has hated shooting Joey, because he misses his old castmates too much. LeBlanc wishes he was still working with all his old co-stars, but he particularly misses Matthew Perry. LeBlanc confesses: "When I first got to the stage, I kept waiting for the door to open and for Chandler to walk in."

7.12.04 - Kevin Bright says it's unlikely that any of the Friends will be guest-starring on Joey, but he confirms that David Schimmer will be directing the 6th episode.

7.12.04 - Joey will premiere on NBC on September 9th.

6.27.04 - Zap2It.com: David Arquette Finds Time to 'Mix It Up' - With the end of "Friends," one might assume that star Courteney Cox-Arquette and her husband, actor David Arquette, might have a little more time on their hands. But with a new baby daughter and a burgeoning production company, David Arquette reveals it just isn't so....

6.25.04 - Courteney Cox and David Arquette have have launched a production company called Coquette, which has several series projects in the works, including a drama eyed by HBO. They currently produce Mix It Up for WE.

6.24.04 - According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has tapped veteran comedy writers Alex Herschlag and David Flebotte to serve as Will & Grace's new showrunners. Friends grad Greg Malins is also coming on board as a co-executive producer.

6.17.04 - A rep for Jennifer Aniston is denying rumors that the former Friends star is expecting her first child with hubby Brad Pitt. "She's not pregnant," her spokesman tells USA Today.

6.15.04 - Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are developing a feature film about famed female war photographer Dickey Chapelle, Variety reports. Aniston is also expected to play the lead role.

6.14.04 - The Hollywood Reporter: 'Friends' duo relocating with 'Joey' - Emmy-winning "Friends" writer-producers Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Plummer will serve as co-executive producers on the series spinoff for NBC "Joey" as part of a two-year overall deal with NBC Universal Television. Former actresses Bilsing-Graham and Plummer got their writing start at Warner Bros.' workshop, which landed them their first writing jobs on "Veronica's Closet," the studio's comedy for NBC. After working on the show for two years, the pair moved to WBTV's "Friends," where they rose to co-executive producers in the NBC series' final two seasons....

6.14.04 - Courteney Cox reportedly gave birth to a baby girl yesterday morning after going into labor the day before. The child is named Coco, and was born two days before Cox's own 40th birthday.

6.9.04 - Matt LeBlanc's upcoming Joey spinoff is down one friend. Ashley Scott (Birds of Prey) -- who was set to play Joey's sexy (and married) next-door neighbor in Los Angeles -- has been let go and the role will be tweaked and recast. Variety reports that the character will now be single and serve as a potential love interest for Joey.

5.20.04 - E!Online Fashion Police: Homer Run - Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston prove they're Trojan worthy at the Cannes premiere of Troy. Brad smolders in a simple yet sexy buzz cut and classic tux. And Jen's slinky white halter Versace goddess gown would surely appease the gods. Just call this sizzlin' duo Mr. and Mythus Pitt.

5.18.04 - TV Guide Online reports that Matt LeBlanc's spinoff, Joey, received an enthusiastic reception at NBC's fall-schedule presentation to advertisers Monday in New York. Confident that they have a hit on their hands, Peacock execs screened the sitcom's entire pilot episode for the packed crowd. The consensus? It was warm, clever and, most importantly, funny.

5.13.04 - From TV Guide Online: Let's play a little game called "What show am I referring to?" Sounds like fun, right? Alright, here we go: In a 10-year-old internal NBC research report obtained by The Smoking Gun, Peacock execs trashed one of their sitcoms as "not very entertaining, clever or original," dissed the show's stars and noted that test audiences "found the characters smug, superficial and self-absorbed." So, what show am I referring to? "Suddenly Susan?" Nope. "Veronica's Closet?" Try again. "Caroline in the City?" You're getting closer. "No... it couldn't be... Friends???" Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Wasn't that fun?!

5.13.04 - Ted at E!Online reports that David Schwimmer was seen keenly chowin' down at Toast on 3rd Street in L.A. As Dave-doll strutted into the restaurant while gabbing on his cell, his sex appeal was up a delectable notch due to his dirty jeans and slight stubble. D.S. joined a girl and a guy at an outside table fer all of 3rd Street to gleefully rubberneck.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt by Darla Khazei

5.11.04 - From TV Guide Online Caught in the Act: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston made black look anything but basic at the premiere of his new flick, Troy. -->

5.10.04 - The May 9th issue of TV Guide gives Cheers to TV Land for paying proper respect to a landmark series by bowing out of competition against the finale of Friends. The cable channel replaced its regular lineup of classic shows with scenes of TV Land staffers watching the NBC sitcom's sign-off and urging viewers to do likewise. If only all rival networks were this friendly.

5.7.04 - Zap2It.com: The One Where 'Friends' Puts Up Massive Finale Ratings - By 9 p.m. ET on Thursday (May 7), NBC's finale night was already a success. "The One with All the Other Ones -- A Friends Retrospective" delivered the highest ratings among adults 18-49 in that time slot since May of 2002, eclipsing nearly two seasons of regular "Friends" numbers. It was the next hour, though, where things began to get exciting for NBC. The exhaustively hyped series finale of "Friends" drew 52.25 million viewers for its extended 66 minute running time. In the television history the only series finales to have drawn bigger audiences were "M*A*S*H" (106.0 million), "Cheers" (80.4 million) and "Seinfeld" (76.3 million)....

5.6.04 - TV Guide Online reports that more than 51 million viewers were there for Friends in its final hour last night, making the farewell the second most-watched telecast of the season -- behind only the Super Bowl. The figure, which was pretty much in line with expectations, pales in comparison to the 76 million who turned out for Seinfeld's big finish in 1998. Speaking of the big good-bye, could it have been any more satisfying? Well, let's examine the evidence: Ross and Rachel finally got their happy ending; Monica and Chandler became the proud parents of twins; Phoebe discovered her inner filangee; and Joey laid his Foosball table to rest. Earlier in the day, the sextet -- Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox Arquette, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc -- looked on as the Warner Bros. soundstage where Friends was filmed for the past 10 years was renamed the "Friends Stage." And later that night, the gang reunited on the set of Central Perk for a special Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (Could Jay's opening monologue have been any lamer?)

5.6.04 - TV Guide Online reports that the Friends cast will be there for each other today when they reunite to watch the sitcom's big finale. According to the New York Post, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will attend a private screening of the episode on the Warner Bros. lot at 4 pm/PST. Afterwards, they'll join Jay Leno to tape a special edition of The Tonight Show on the set of Central Perk. Meanwhile, Hollywood's major film studios are getting in on the Friends frenzy by purchasing the bulk of the pricey ad space during tonight's finale. Among the summer blockbusters getting airtime this evening: Van Helsing, Spider-Man 2, The Day After Tomorrow, Shrek 2 and The Stepford Wives.

5.5.04 - ESPN reports that Jennifer Aniston, who is of Greek decent, will help carry the Olympic torch around the world on it way to Athens, Greece. The flame will begin its 46,800 mile trip on June 4th in Sydney, Australia. It will cover six continents, 27 countries, and 33 cities with about 11,000 runners.

5.4.04 - Ten Lessons in Friendship from Kristin at E!Online. This is everything this tater learned from 236 episodes of Friends and quite possibly everything you'll ever need to know about anything.

5.3.04 - Kristin at E!Online says that she's heard excellent things about Aisha Tyler's Lisa Kudrow-produced pilot. As for Joey...well, she's heard excellent things about Aisha Tyler's Lisa Kudrow-produced pilot.

4.29.04 - Ted Casablanca at E!Online reports that actors who are auditioning for it tell him David Schwimmer is developing a show roughly based on "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." But with an Indian twist. Not American, for the record.

4.27.04 - From Cynthia's Cynopsis: What will $2 million get you these days? About 30 seconds ... on the final episode of Friends. And ponying up to the ad bar are Anheuser-Busch, Gatorade, GM, Chevy, GE, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Co., Allstate Corp., and Hewlett Packard, according to the Wall Street Journal. Within estimated 50 million viewers tuning in for the big May 6 event (still smaller numbers than the finale of MASH which had more than double that number), the price tag is approx a 14% increase from NBC's final ep of Seinfeld in 1998. Then a single 30 would cost you approx $1.72 million, and the show enjoyed a little more than 76 million viewers. And if you'd like to join in the fun and say goodbye to Frasier on NBC (May 13), that will cost you the bargain rate of $800,000. Here's the schedule for May 6: At 8p NBC has scheduled a 60m Friends clip show; 9pm a 60m original episode. The Friends will also appear later on that evening on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno which will have been taped at Central Perk, the Friends favorite coffee joint.

4.26.04 - Don't miss E!Online's special Farewell to Friends.

4.25.04 - From the April 25th issue of TV Guide: David Schwimmer reports that later this month, there will be a Friends reunion on the set of Matt LeBlanc's spin-off, Joey. "The cast will all be [attending] the taping of the pilot," he says. And it looks like Schwimmer might even be directing some episodes. "I talked to Matt and [executive producer] Kevin Bright about it, and we're going to work it out." In other words, Matt–all together now–he'll be there for you...

4.23.04 - TV Guide Online reports that an appeals court has reinstated a sexual and racial-harassment lawsuit filed by a former writer's assistant on Friends. Last year, Amaani Lyle sued three of the sitcom's writers, claiming they joked about women and sex, and often ridiculed and mocked black people. The suit was eventually dismissed, but on Wednesday the appeals court determined that the defense's position -- that vulgar comments and jokes were a regular part of creating a program about sexually active young people -- was not strong enough to warrant a dismissal.

4.23.04 - On Tuesday, May 5th (the eve of the series finale), NBC will be re-airing the last two episodes of Friends from 8 to 9pm ET, and then from 9 to 11pm ET will be showing a special edition of Dateline NBC featuring interviews with the Friends.

4.20.04 - Cynthia's Cynopsis reports that TV Land will bid farewell to NBC's Friends on May 6, the night of the grand finale, with a two pronged salute. From 6-9pm the classic tv net will air Before They Were Friends, featuring each of the cast members on various sitcoms long before they came together for Friends. Then at 9pm - this is the brilliant part - for the entire hour that the Friends finale is airing, TV Land will be closed. Instead of regularly scheduled programming, viewers tuning in to TV Land will be treated to a room full of TV Land staffers - purportedly watching the Friends finale -- periodically addressing the camera to remind viewers that the Friends finale is on and that we really aren't airing anything so there's no point staying tuned. Worth tuning in just to see what's going on, albeit briefly. During the finale of Seinfeld lo those many years ago, TV Land shut down for that hour as well, airing nothing except a door with a sign that said they were closed and would be back after Seinfeld.

4.19.04 - TV Guide Online reports that Matt LeBlanc's spinoff series, Joey, will take over Friends' Thursday at 8 pm/ET timeslot next fall.

4.15.04 - NBC has added Ashley Scott to the cast of Joey (Warner Bros.) as Joey's neighbor. The spin off also stars Paulo Costanzo and Drea De Matteo as Joey's sister. in addition to, obviously, Matt Lablanc.

Matthew Perry by Michel/IPA

4.8.04 - From TV Guide Online "Caught in the Act": Could he be any cuter? Friends star Matthew Perry showed off his nice duds at the premiere of his new flick, The Whole Ten Yards. --->

4.5.04 - Zap2It.com: 'Friends' Finale Gets Quick DVD Turnaround - If your power goes out and you miss the "Friends" series finale on May 6, Warner Bros. Home Video has your back. A DVD of the hour-long finale (44 minutes or so without commercials) will hit stores within a week after the episode airs, Warner Bros. says. The episode is scheduled for release on DVD Tuesday, May 11....

4.1.04 - Don't miss It's Good to Be Matt LeBlanc, premiere on E! on Sunday, April 4th at 10pm. For more info, checkout E!Online.

3.29.04 - TV Guide Online reports that Sopranos mob mole Drea de Matteo has been cast as Matt LeBlanc's hairdresser sister in NBC's upcoming Friends spinoff, Joey. DeMatteo's character is described as a strong woman who, like her bro, has a way with the opposite sex. According to The Hollywood Reporter, de Matteo's Joey gig will not interfere with her obligations on the sixth and final season of The Sopranos, which starts shooting next year. In other Friends-related news, Jennifer Aniston has signed on to star in Gambit, Universal's upcoming remake of the 1966 British caper starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Ben Kingsley is reportedly attached to co-star.

3.19.04 - The March 20th issue of TV Guide gives Jeers to Friends for following too closely in Sex and the City's high-heeled footsteps. Both shows have wound down with Manhattanites planning adoptions and pondering moves to Paris and suburbia. We'll chalk it up to coincidence—unless one of the Friends suddenly contracts cancer.

3.19.04 - Relative newcomer Paulo Costanzo (Road Trip) has been cast as Matt LeBlanc's twentysomething nephew on NBC's Friends spin-off, Joey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

3.14.04 - Cherry Bomb: Jennifer Aniston single-handedly raises the threat level at the Along Came Polly premiere in London. Our favorite Friend is shockingly stunning in a sexy strapless scarlet pouf Valentino dress, sharp black heels and fire-engine red lips. Sound the alarms, and duck for cover! Aniston's risqué moves are right on target.

3.12.04 - Hide and Chic: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt play the skin game at the Los Angeles premiere of his Spy Game. She's hip in a low-rise black leather skirt with high boots and a form-fitting chocolate brown turtleneck. Pitt keeps it sleek in a Gucci suede zip-front jacket over deliciously snug blue jeans with tawny lensed shades. Any other guy wearing this jacket might look pretty dorky, but Pitt pulls it off. Give the power couple a hand!

3.8.04 - Kristin at E!Online reports that the rumor buzzing around TV land is that castmembers were allowed to take a souvenir home from the set. Supposedly, Jennifer Aniston took the leather couch from Central Perk, David Schwimmer claimed Chandler and Joey's beloved foosball table, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc took their characters' leather reclining chairs, and Courteney Cox took the picture frame hanging on Monica's door. Meanwhile, Jennifer Aniston spoke with ratethemusic.com about the possibility of a reunion special: "I think that would cheapen it. Do you remember the Brady Bunch reunion show? You remember the Happy Days reunion show? Were they ever good? Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap." So, it seems that maybe they don't need the set items anymore...

3.5.04 - Zap2It.com: Schwimmer Gets Behind NBC Pilot - "Friends" star David Schwimmer is staying in the NBC fold for his next project, signing on to direct and executive produce a comedy pilot at the network. Schwimmer, who's directed several episodes of "Friends," will step behind the camera again for "Nevermind Nirvana," a romantic comedy about a guy whose traditional East Indian family objects when he gets engaged to a white woman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

3.5.04 - TV Guide Online reports that Paul Reiser is wooing his onetime Mad About You costar Lisa Kudrow to make a guest appearance in a comedy pilot he's producing for NBC. The potential series, My 11:30, stars Jeff Goldblum as a playboy New York businessman who seeks help from a no-nonsense female shrink, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In related news, Kudrow's Friends bud David Schwimmer has signed on to direct and executive produce the Peacock comedy pilot Nevermind Nirvana, which centers on an East Indian guy and his white fiancee.

3.3.04 - The February 28th issue of TV Guide gives Jeers to Friends for wasting one of its precious few remaining episodes on a silly guest shot by Danny DeVito as a stripper. If we wanted to see a chubby guy shed his clothes, we'd flip over to Survivor: All-Stars' Richard Hatch.

2.26.04 - E!Online: Cherry Bomb - Jennifer Aniston single-handedly raises the threat level at the Along Came Polly premiere in London. Our favorite Friend is shockingly stunning in a sexy strapless scarlet pouf Valentino dress, sharp black heels and fire-engine red lips. Sound the alarms, and duck for cover! Aniston's risqué moves are right on target.

2.18.04 - E!Online Fashion Police: Good Mourning. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston may be Hollywood's happiest married couple, but why did they dress so down in the dumps for the glitzy Los Angeles premiere of Along Came Polly? They look as if they're heading to a Friends funeral with Pitt's somber all-black Gucci suit, navy scarf and shorn head. Aniston fairs no better in her boring black Rochas skirt and Jil Sander top. Quick, somebody fetch these two some Prozac.

2.16.04 - Congratulations to Matt LeBlanc and his wife, Melissa, on the birth of their daughter, Marina, on February 8th.

2.10.04 - FilmJerk.com reports some casting news on the Friends spin-off, Joey. Joey's newest friends will include a hairdressing sister, a nephew described as a socially awkward Seth Cohen-type and a love interest/next-door neighbor named Allison.

2.7.04 - TV Guide gives Jeers to Friends for trying to pass off a clip job as a new episode. Chandler and Monica's decision to move to the suburbs prompted flashbacks to old footage of the gang hanging out in the couple's apartment. The NBC comedy's farewell season includes only 18 new installments (instead of the usual 24), so it's not fair that one of them was a cut-and-paste rerun.

2.6.04 - Jennifer Aniston has signed on to star in an untitled comedy about a young woman who discovers that her family's darkest secret was the inspiration for The Graduate. And, to add injury to insult, she may have been the biological offspring of that scandal.

1.24.04 - MSN Entertainment: 'Friends' Tapes Final Episode - The enduring comedy "Friends," with the theme song that promises "I'll be there for you," wrapped its final episode in front of an invitation-only audience on a set veiled in secrecy, all part of a plan to avoid spoiling the surprise ending for fans....

1.23.04 - From TV Guide Online: NBC has decided that, well, maybe Friends isn't the "best comedy ever" after all. The network promised Thursday not to rerun a much-criticized promo in which it used that phrase to refer to the departing hitcom. An NBC spokeswoman concedes that the spot "went overboard." She'll get no argument from Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, who last week expressed his dismay at the ad. "I don't blame them for saying that," he said. "Although, we all know it's not true."

1.20.04 - From TV Guide Online: Jennifer Aniston: Gotta Dance!

As Rachel on Friends, Jennifer Aniston doesn't show off her dancing skills too often. She struts her stuff in Along Came Polly (currently in theaters), but quickly realized all that hoofing around is a lot of harder than it looks.

"I was supposed to be a really good salsa dancer. I took two classes. I was supposed to take more, but I didn't," Aniston admits. "We [only] had two days shooting in New York, and then, the next bit for me was all of the salsa dancing. It was six days straight. My feet looked like raw meat. It was just disgusting, but it was so much fun. I loved it, I loved learning how to dance."

And then, a tragic twist. "Right after we shot those six days, I broke my toe," the 34-year-old says with a sigh. "So thank God we took care of all that stuff."

Turns out, shaking and shimmying with costar Ben Stiller didn't cause the broken digit. Aniston reluctantly takes responsibility for that one herself. "I stubbed it. It was just stupid," she laments. "It was absolutely ridiculous. [I injured my toe] on an ottoman."

Injuries aside, Aniston was happy to play Polly, a wild and free-spirited character who's quite different from herself. "I'm pretty controlled," she notes. "There are aspects of Polly that are very similar to me, in terms of indecision and commitment, but [I can't] think of the last time I just said, 'What the hell' and did something crazy."

1.20.04 - TV Guide Online reports that NBC is charging advertisers $2 million for a 30-second spot during the May 6 Friends finale -- a record for an entertainment show. By comparison, the network commanded $1.7 million a spot for its Seinfeld send-off in 1998.

1.20.04 - From TV Guide Online Caught in the Act: Baby Blues: A pregnant Courteney Cox Arquette promoted November at the Sundance Film Festival.

1.17.04 - Don't miss the great little interview with Jennifer Aniston on page 48 of the January 17th issue of TV Guide.

1.16.04 - From TV Guide Online: How Will Friends End?

As previously reported, Friends will wrap its 10-year laughfest on May 6 with what NBC is calling a "two-hour extravaganza." The first hour will be a retrospective, followed by a one-hour series finale. So what happens in the last episode? Well, that's top secret. But this week, the producers and cast did offer some hints at a farewell press conference with TV critics on the Friends set. Here's what we learned...

Ross and Rachel will go off into the sunset.
Well, they didn't say that, but we can read between the lines. Asked how he'd like to see Ross end up, David Schwimmer said: "We all end up with a sense of a new beginning. I can't divulge where we're going, but it's exactly what I had hoped." Hmmm... Back in September, Schwimmer told TV Guide that Ross and Rachel are "destined to be together. To quote Phoebe Buffay, they're each other's lobster, whether they know it or not." So don't be surprised if baby Emma's parents end the series as much more than mere Friends.

How will the other characters end up? Will we glimpse Joey's afterlife on Joey?
"I hope I'm not wearing a sweater-vest," joked Matthew Perry (Chandler), who played dumb on details of the finale's plot. The rest of the cast also kept mum. "The end of Friends is not a setup for the pilot of Joey," pointed out Kevin Bright, who executive produces both Friends and Matt LeBlanc's spin-off. "They'll be two separate shows."

Our Friends will say goodbye in a "comfortable" way, not go out all freaky like Roseanne.
"One of the important things for us," said cocreator Marta Kauffman, "was that [the finale] still felt like an episode of Friends — that it wasn't some gimmick superimposed on some episode, but it still felt like our show. We want them to be happy, and [we want] to feel good about saying goodbye to them." Agreed her writing partner, David Crane: "Yeah, we didn't want to do something high concept or take [it] out of the world of the show. It's just, hopefully, a really good episode of Friends."

While penning the finale, the Friends honchos took their cues from TV's comedic masters.
"To be honest, we watched a bunch [of other sitcoms' final episodes]," Kauffman admitted, citing The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Larry Sanders Show as her faves. "The ones that we really liked are the ones that seemed to stay true to what the series was." Added Crane: "We knew it had to be [an episode] where you felt something and, hopefully, you laughed a lot."

How will they keep spoilers of the conclusion from leaking out?
"There are elements that the [studio] audience will not be seeing," Kauffman explained. "We'll be shooting [some footage] before the audience comes in. We just have essential personnel on set for those. You just keep your fingers crossed."

1.15.04 - Zap2It.com: It's The One Where Production Ends on 'Friends' - The final show won't air for nearly five months, but in one sense, "Friends" will be over by next weekend. The show's cast read the script of series finale together on Monday (Jan. 12), and the episode -- the 18th and final one in the series' 10th season -- will tape next week. The one-hour finale is scheduled to air Thursday, May 6....

1.15.04 - Friends has received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations: one for Female Actor in a Comedy Series (Lisa Kudrow) and one for Ensemble of a Comedy Series. The SAG Awards will air on TNT Sunday, February 22nd.

1.14.04 - From TV Guide Online: Friends will conclude its 10-year run on May 6 with what NBC is calling a "two-hour extravaganza," the network announced today on the TCA press tour in Hollywood. An hour-long retrospective will be followed by a one-hour series finale. Not to be outdone, Frasier will get similar treatment on May 13, when the 11-year-old sitcom returns to Thursday night for its own two-hour send-off.

1.14.04 - From TV Guide Online: Emotions ran high -- actually, more like medium -- when the cast and producers of NBC's Friends gathered on the show's set Tuesday for a farewell press conference with TV critics. As they prepare to shoot their final scenes next Friday, "We're like very delicate china and we're speeding toward a brick wall," said Jennifer Aniston. Added Lisa Kudrow: "It's a deeper loss than I was expecting." Among the interesting tidbits that came out of the nearly hour-long Q&A: NBC president Jeff Zucker denied that he offered the cast $2 million apiece to star in a reunion special, but joked that he's prepared to give them $4 million; Courteney Cox, who is due to give birth in July, is already showing; David Schwimmer may direct several episodes of Matt LeBlanc's spin-off Joey next season; and Paul Rudd drives a white Mitsubishi Diamante. I know this because he was seen driving off the Warner Bros. lot in one shortly before the session began.

1.12.04 - From TV Guide Online: A Friends rep is denying a report that NBC has agreed to pay Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer $2 million apiece to shoot a 90-minute reunion special to air in November 2004. The rumored get-together was supposedly going to be taped right after production wrapped later this month on the hitcom's final episode and show the gang getting together for Thanksgiving dinner.

1.12.04 - Friends won a People's Choice Award last night for Favorite Comedy, while Jennifer Aniston also won for favorite television actress.

1.9.04 - From TV Guide Online: If you find yourself sounding more and more like the gang from Friends, you're not losing your marbles. A University of Toronto study suggests that the long-running NBC comedy has left a lasting imprint on contemporary English. Specifically, researchers believe that Monica, Phoebe and Rachel's frequent use of the word "so" -- as in "so cool" -- has helped make the expression a favorite in mainstream culture.

1.6.04 - It's official, Courteney Cox is pregnant with her first child with her husband, David Arquette. No other details were released by the couple's publicist.

1.6.04 - Jennifer Aniston will host Saturday Night Live on NBC this Saturday, January 11th.

1.6.04 - From TV Guide Online Caught in the Act: Host With the Most: Jennifer Aniston posed for photogs and made cell phone calls on her way to a Saturday Night Live rehearsal.

1.5.04 - Zap2It.com: Stiller and Aniston Don't Copy Their 'Polly' Characters - In his latest film role, Ben Stiller plays a guy who assesses risks for a living and can quote how many people have touched a bowl of peanuts sitting at a bar and the kind of diseases someone could get by eating them. In reality, Stiller's not like that. "I am not neurotic about germs; I will eat food off the floor if something drops," Stiller tells Zap2it.com. Meanwhile, in the same movie, "Along Came Polly," Jennifer Aniston portrays a woman who's rather a free spirit who loves her pet ferret. She's not at all like her character....

12.19.03 - Matt LeBlanc was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The Golden Globes will be presented on Sunday, Jan. 25 and the show will be televised live on NBC.

12.15.03 - Zap2It.com: 'Friends' End Has Aniston Looking for Sedation - Jennifer Aniston pouts when asked how she juggles making movies and doing her TV show "Friends" -- a question that gets asked every time she does press for movies like "Rock Star," "The Good Girl" and "Bruce Almighty." "After a couple of weeks, I'm not going to have that problem anymore," the actress says while shilling for her upcoming comedy "Along Came Polly," referring to May's demise of the NBC comedy after 10 seasons....

12.15.03 - Zap2It.com: 'Friends' Producers Pact with Paramount - Like so many hermit crabs seeking out new shells, the executive producers and showrunners on NBC's "Friends" are about to go scurrying off across the television landscape looking for new deals. Writer-producers Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen are set to take up residence at Paramount Network Television....

12.9.03 - Fox is looking at another real-time series, this one taking place during a dinner party, a 24-episode long dinner party. Titled, you guessed it, The Dinner Party, the show is overseen by exec prods Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky, produced by Is Or Isn't Entertainment/Warner Bros. Television, and will be written by Sandy Isaac.

12.9.03 - Lisa Kudrow is lending her voice to an untitled animated pilot under consideration at Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kudrow would voice the mother of a family whose life is disrupted when their uncle moves in.

12.5.03 - Jennifer Aniston, 34, is $550,000 richer, reports Entertainment Weekly. On November 20th, Mrs. Pitt settled her invasion-of-privacy and trespassing suit against Francois Navarre, the man who allegedly distributed photos of her sunbathing au natuel in her yard.

12.3.03 - Jennifer Aniston has been nominated for a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Television Performer, and Friends was also nominated for Favorite Telelvision Comedy Series. The People's Choice Awards will air live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on CBS on January 11th.

12.3.03 - E!Online: With Friends Like These, Who Needs a Million Dollars? - It only makes sense that a woman with a karaoke room in her $10 million beachfront home would have plenty of buddies, but this is ridiculous! As this immaculately organized episode details, Monica Geller's real-world doppelgänger doesn't need a roommate (but has one anyway), shows a knack for real estate and gets by with a lot of help from her Friends.... It's Good to Be Courteney Cox Airs on E!: Dec. 2, 10 p.m.; Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m., 8 p.m.; Dec. 6, 12:30 p.m., 7 p.m.; Dec. 7, 8:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m.

12.2.03 - "November," starring Courteney Cox, will be included in the Sundance Film Festival starting January 15th in Park City, Utah. Courtney Cox Arquette stars in "November" as Sophie Jacobs, a photographer who struggles to cope after her boyfriend is shot to death in a robbery and begins to blur reality and fantasy. Anne Archer, James LeGros and Nora Dunn also star.

12.1.03 - TV Guide Online reports that Lisa Kudrow is exec producing a CBS comedy pilot starring her former Friends co-star Aisha Tyler. The Hollywood Reporter describes the sitcom as "a workplace comedy in the vein of The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

11.21.03 - TV Guide Online reports that Jennifer Aniston has reached a $550,000 settlement with a man she accused of distributing topless pics of her sunbathing in her backyard.

11.4.03 - Danny DeVito will guest star on Friends as an over-the-hill stripper performing at Phoebe's bachelorette party in an episode to air in February entitled "The One Where the Stripper Cries." Emmy Nominee Donny Osmond also guest stars in the episode as himself when Joey (Matt LeBlanc) appears as a celebrity contestant on "Pyramid."

10.22.03 - Zap2It.com: Cox, Arquette Mix It Up - "I love her on 'reveal' days," confesses David Arquette. He is talking about his wife, Courteney Cox, and her incredible passion for changing people's lives through her design and remodeling expertise. Her love of home decorating forms the framework of the series "Mix It Up," premiering Wednesday, Oct. 22, on WE: Women's Entertainment. Cox created the show and serves as co-executive producer with her husband....

10.22.03 - From TV Guide Online: Rumor has it Friends star Courteney Cox and hubby David Arquette are expecting their first child. David's actor-brother Alexis let the cat out of the bag during a taping of Sharon Osbourne's talk show Monday. (It airs next month.) "We're not commenting," the couple's rep tells USA Today. "When they're pregnant and ready to announce it, they will."

10.21.03 - Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have optioned the feature film rights to Mariane Pearl's memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl," which chronicles the kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan. Pitt and Aniston will produce the movie through their Warner Bros.-based company Plan B Prods.

10.7.03 - Zap2It.com: Perry Returning to 'The West Wing' - "Friends" star Matthew Perry will reprise his Emmy-nominated guest role on "The West Wing" next month. Perry will return to the White House drama for one episode during November sweeps, again playing Joe Quincy, a Republican lawyer who has a job in the Bartlet administration. He appeared on the show twice last season....

10.6.03 - MSN Access Hollywood: Behind the Scenes of 'Friends' - More than 24 million viewers tuned in to see the season premiere of "Friends." Now, the October 6 issue of Newsweek reveals that as close as Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow are, there have been times when it hasn't been so "friendly...."

9.30.03 - From TV Guide Online: A story in today's New York Post alleges that Friends star Jennifer Aniston's desire to start a family with hubby Brad Pitt led to the hitcom's accelerated production schedule this season. Friends is shooting two episodes a week so that it can wrap up in January. In related news, Newsweek reports that (spoiler alert!) the Rachel-Joey romance will come to an end fairly soon — to Aniston's apparent relief. "I hated it," she says. "Joey's like my brother."

9.29.03 - From TV Guide Online: The 10th (and final) season premiere of Friends beat Survivor in the ratings on Thursday, but NBC's flagship comedy was down a whopping 29 percent year-to-year.

9.25.03 - Jennifer Aniston had some undercover help for her Emmy jitters. People Magazine said Mrs. Pitt confessed she was wearing underwear with her hubby Brad Pitt's picture on it. Brad's away shooting "Troy" in Mexico. No word on whether it was one of the shots of Brad in his gladiator gear.

9.25.03 - MSN Access Hollywood: 'Friends' Final Season - Our favorite 'friends' return on September 25. The hit comedy debuts on NBC's Must-See TV for its 10th and final season. Access Hollywood found out that on the set the tears are already flowing....

9.25.03 - David Schwimmer's company Dark Harbors Prods. is developing a fall 2004 sitcom based on Bruce Cameron's upcoming book How to Remodel a Man. According to Variety, Man will focus on a divorced young man who relies on the women in his life to help him re-examine his relationships.

9.25.03 - TV Guide reports that Friends is hosting a Talk Soup reunion this November. Former Soup stirrer Greg Kinnear will play a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who also happens to be the ex-lover of Ross's gal-pal Charlie (fellow Soup survivor Aisha Tyler).

9.24.03 - If you're a fan of The West Wing, you know you've seen several episodes where the White House staff get together for a little game of poker. That little game may now show up on Bravo, says Variety. Celebrity Poker Showdown has been okayed by NBC for six episodes, airing on Tuesday nights this winter on Bravo. Potential players include many from West Wing including Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, as well as Emily Procter, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. The series will feature five different players in each episode and no limit - the winning player gives the pot to their favorite charity. The last episode will have the winners from each of the five previous eps playing each other in a championship game. Kevin Pollak will host.

9.24.03 - E!Online Fashion Police: Clothes Cause - Good Friend Jennifer Aniston could get away with wearing any old thing, but this time it's a ho-hum vintage Halston V-neck silk cocktail dress. At least she's adorning it with a sparkly diamond bracelet, simple slingbacks, a golden tan and long shiny locks. Hey, this dress (complete with celebrity sweat) is one of those up for auction at Clothes off Our Back). But be warned. Top bid on Sunday night hit two grand. Since when do old clothes cost more than new? Just think what stars could get for their undies!

9.24.03 - E!Online Fashion Police: