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Titolo: Le 101 Cose che ogni Fan di Friends dovrebbe conoscere...

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1. The first line of dialogue in the very first pilot episode of Friends was
"There's nothing to tell.
2. A 30-second commercial during the break in the show in America cost
advertisers £500,000.
3. Other titles considered for the series included "Once upon a time in the
West Village", "Insomnia Café" and "Across the Hall". The original title,
"Friends like Us", was shortened to the current one-worder.
4. The six characters full names are Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica
Geller (Courteney Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), JoeyTribbiani (Matt le
Blanc), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and Ross Geller(David Schwimmer).
5. According to Aniston, her famous "Rachel" hairdo was created by accident
when her "friend" Chris cut her hair with a razor.
6. Courteney Cox, who was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, is known
as CC to friends and family.
7. David Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High, the school on which the
series Beverly Hills: 90210 was based.
8. Matthew Perry appeared in Beverly Hills: 90210 earlier in his career. He
said of his role: "Its kind of a blur, but I remember playing the most
popular kid in school who ends up with a gun in his mouth because his Dad is
so overbearing".
9. Perry's wit is so legendary that the scriptwriters have often
incorporated his gags into the show.
10. Cox had the honour of being the first person to say "period" on American
TV, making a commercial for Tampax.
11. Aniston attended the New York High School for the Performing Arts, the
school that Fame was modelled on.
12. Central Perk, the café in which they all hang out, is based on the
Manhattan Café in New Yorks West Village.
13. Cox was a cover girl for People Magazine's "50 most beautiful people in
the world" issue.
14. She was also dubbed "TV's hottest babe" by American Playboy magazine.
15. Director Hames Burrows, responsible for many of the early episodes of
Friends, also directed Taxi, Cheers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
16. Matt le Blanc loves dogs and has a mutt called Lady that he rescued from
a dog pound, and a Doberman called Shadow.
17. Kudrow is married to a French advertising executive Michel Stern, and
has a baby daughter.
18. Schwimmer is the son of two Los Angeles lawyers. His mother, Arlene,
handled Roseanne's first divorce.
19. Le Blanc, son of a mechanic and a circuit-board maker, originally
studies carpentry. "I am not a dumb guy," he says. "I just play one on TV".
20. Famous guest stars on the show have included ER's George Clooney and
Noah Wyle, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Chris Isaak
and Julia Roberts.
21. Perry dated Roberts after her appearance on the show. His verdict? "She
does leave toothpaste all over the sink and she's always wanting to borrow
money".
22. The whole cast huddle together before each episode to wish each other
luck. This made frequent guest star Tom Selleck feel a bit left out.
23. Perry's Dad was an actor who starred in the Old Spice aftershave ad's,
his mother was Press Secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
24. Kudrow has made appearances on several "worst dressed" lists in American
magazines, but because of her characters clothes rather than her own.
25. Perry is very fond of female vocalists. He says, "If you're a woman and
in any kind of emotional duress and you sing a song about it, I will buy
your album". Favourites include Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Tori
Amos.
26. When the pilot show was approved by the network, and a series
comissioned, the entire cast was sent on a free trip to Las Vegas.
27. Cox dated Batman actor Michael Keaton for five and a half years, and
they are still reportedly "good friends".
28. After graduating from speech and theatre from Chicago's Northwestern
University, Schwimmer founded a theatre company, Lookinglass, with 17
classmates.
29. Aniston's Dad was an actor, John Aniston, who starred in top US soap
Days of our Lives. He divorced her mother when Aniston was nine.
30. Kudrow gets fed up with being considered in real life to be as dippy as
her on-screen character, Phoebe. "People talk slower to me, as if I were a
ten year old", she reveals.
31. Kudrow graduated from exclusive American college Vassar, where she
gained a major in biology.
32. Cox has been known to bleach her teeth.
33. Like Ross, le Blanc has simian friends, he starred with an animatronic
chimp in the baseball movie Ed.
34. Aniston, real name Anistropolus, used to be 30lb heavier, until her
agent told her to lose weight. She gave up mayonnaise, pre-meal snacking,
white bread, post-meal snacking and butter to reach her current trim size.
35. Cox, who weighs 7st 3lbs (101lbs) and wears a British size six, is
terrified of being fat. She says, "My ideal weight would be 100lbs. My whole
family is shaped like pears and I'm afraid of looking like that".
36. Aniston recently played a very unglamourous role in Ed Burn's film Shes
the One. She was cast as a wife whose husband refuses to sleep with her.
37. Courteney Cox's stepcousin is Stuart Copeland, of pop group The Police
fame.
38. Schwimmer is very keen to become a father. "I've always wanted a
family", he says. "I think that's why we're here - to have children, raise
them well and try to improve the quality of life for all the people who will
follow".
39. Schwimmer dated, Natalie Imbruglia - who played Beth in Neighbours. She
broke it off when he refused to marry her.
40. The cast apparently get on as well in real life as they do on screen.
They play poker and Scrabble together, and the girls often shop with each
other. The rumour that they had made a pact never to sleep together is
untrue.
41. Le Blanc and Aniston were rumoured to have had a fling.
42. The day he auditioned for Friends, Le Blanc had a big scab on his nose
and forehead after falling down drunk on a bender the night before.
43. When Schwimmer first met Le Blanc he was sceptical. Le Blanc was wearing
leather jeans and Schwimmer thought he was "Joe cool stud" and hated him on
sight.
44. Cox originally read to play the part of Rachel.
45. Perry has been linked to actress Tricia Fisher, daughter of Connie
Stevens and Eddie Fisher, who played Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss in a TV
film.
46. Le Blanc is a speed freak who competed in amateur motor-racing
competitions at the age of eight. In a recent celebrity Grand Prix he ran
into a wall, taking Jason Priestly's car out of the race.
47. As a teenager, Cox was Bruce Springsteen's dancing partner in Brian de
Palma's video of Dancing in the Dark.
48. Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz was linked to both Cox and
Aniston.
49. Like his on-screen character Joey, Le Blanc has a reputation as a
womaniser. He has been linked to volleyball star Gabrielle Reece, English
actress Minnie Driver, porn star Jenna Jameson, Goldie Hawn's 16 year old
daughter Kate Hudson and several strippers.
50. Schwimmer complains of being hounded by women who demand that he kiss
them - even when their boyfriends are there too.
51. In The Pallbearer, Schwimmers first film since joining Friends, he
starred with Gwyneth Paltrow. The film did badly in the USA.
52. When she was younger Aniston wanted to be a sculptor. At the age of 11,
she had a painting in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York.
53. After being picked to play Roz Doyle in Frasier, Kudrow was subsequently
dropped in favour of actress Peri Gilpin before the pilot was even shot.
54. Friends is Channel 4's top-rating comedy, regularly attracting three
million viewers.
55. Kudrow's father is one of the world's leading experts in headaches.
56. Le Blanc was down to his last $11 when he got the part in Friends.
57. Schwimmer claims to have been a "fat, ugly geek" in high school.
58. Cox played the part of Michael J Fox's girlfriend Lauren in Family Ties,
between 1986 and 1988.
59. She claims to have been really in love only once. The lucky man was
called Paul, hailed from Leeds, and "he made a hell of a Yorkshire pudding".
60. Now engaged to marry Sandra Bullock's ex-fiance Tate Donovan, Aniston
counts among her former loves ER's Noah Wyle, actor Jonathan Silverman,
co-star Matthew Perry and Grant Heslov, from True Lies.
61. David Schwimmer accused the handlers of his on-screen pal Marcel the
monkey of being "too possessive". He claims that he was never allowed to
bond with the creature.
62. Marcel's trainer, Nerissa Pulizer, said of her charge: "If Marcel were
human, she'd be Meryl Streep".
63. The monkey was the first cast member to get a Hollywood movie role,
appearing in the movie Outbreak.
64. The daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon, Jennifer Grant, played an
employee of Chandler's who ended up dating him in the first series.
65. The Friends album includes songs from REM, Joni Mitchell and Hootie and
the Blowfish, a band four of them once went to see.
66. The theme tune, I'll be there for you by the Rembrants, has been a huge
hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
67. Friends executive producers Marta Kuaffman and David Crane also created
the adult sitcom Dream On.
68. The characters of Ross's ex-wife and her girlfriend Susan are based on
the godmothers to Kauffman's daughter.
69. The opening footage of the cast dancing around a fountain was filmed on
the Warner Brothers lot in LA at five o'clock one morning.
70. The first thing Cox bought with her Friends money was a brand new
Porsche.
71. The occupations of the characters are as follows: Ross, palaeontologist;
Monica, chef; Joey, actor/model; Phoebe, masseuse; Rachel, waitress;
Chandler, data processor.
72. Cox was the best-known member of the cast before the show. She played
opposite Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and was in Cocoon: The
Return.
73. Le Blanc is currently filming Lost in Space with Gary Oldman at
Shepperton Studios. He's renting a flat in London's Kensington and has been
seen shopping in Budgens.
74. Two models for American underwear company Victoria's Secret appeared in
the first series. One was the dream girl Chandler gets stuck with during a
blackout, the other was a girl who is convinced that Joey has VD.
75. Perry looked at 40 houses before buying his current W-shaped ranch house
with pool in LA.
76. Aniston bought her brother Bronco car for Christmas, and he cried.
77. Schwimmer was in the first series of NYPD Blue. He was a nerd who lived
in the apartment next door to Sherry Stringfield and ended up shooting a
mugger.
78. Kudrow co-stars with Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino in a new film, Romy and
Michele's High School Reunion.
79. Christina Pickles, who plays Monica's mum, also worked with Cox ten
years ago on the film Masters of the Universe.
80. Cox has said of her character: "She's obsessive, the one who has to be
perfect and please everybody. I'm so similar to her it's frightening".
81. When Jay Leno asked Aniston to touch her nose with her tongue on the
Tonight show, she politely declined.
82. Kudrow started her showbiz career at Groundlings, a local
improvisational comedy school in LA.
83. Schwimmer has a multi-million-dollar deal with top Hollywood studio
Miramax to star in and direct several films.
84. Aniston starred in an unsuccessful horror movie called Leprechaun in
1993.
85. Her next feature is a romantic comedy, Picture Perfect.
86. Kudrow used to date American talk show host Conan O'Brian.
87. Le Blanc admits to having spat in someone's food when he worked in a New
York burger joint.
88. Aniston's shampoo commerical for L'Oreal is only being shown in Europe.
She says she will never do a hair-product ad in America.
89. Her godfather was former Kojak actor Telly Savalas.
90. Perry has recently lost two and a half stone, while allegedly depressed
and on painkillers. Despite celebrity girlfriends such as Julia Roberts, he
attributes his state of mind to his failure with women.
91. Raised in Ottawa, Canada, Perry was a junior tennis ace before taking up
acting. He never graduated from college. He gave up his studies when he won
a role in a sitcom called Boys will be Boys. His first movie role since
joining Friends was Fools Rush In, playing a nightclub promoter.
92. Childhood Friends of southern belle Cox were reportedly shocked at the
lesbian storyline in the show.
93. Perry's grandfather, however, loves the show. And so do all his friends.
94. In a somewhat unlikely claim, Perry also insists that Mrs Thatcher is an
avid viewer, particularly of Joey and Chandler's scenes.
95. Neurotic about her looks, Cox worries about the thin, dry skin under her
eyes, having different sized nostrils and a double chin. As if...
96. There's a book out called Cooking with Friends, full of comfort-food
recipes for when "it hasn't been your day, your month or even your year" - a
reference to the theme song.
97. Matt le Blanc used to model Levi 501's and has appeared in TV ads for
Coca-Cola and Heinz Ketchup.
98. Le Blanc admits to being a mummys boy, and is devoted to his Italian
mother, Pat Grossman. He didn't meet his father until he was eight.
99. Cox plays a TV reporter chasing down a serial killer in horror flick
Scream.
100. The show's producers admit that the characters could never afford the
rents on the apartments they live in on the show.
101. Highlights of the third series include guest appearances by Robin
Williams and Billy Crystal, and a scene in which Joey strips naked.

34. Aniston, real name Anistropolus
beeeeeeeeeeep: sbagliato, si chiama anastassakis :)
-- 
'the hopeless defendant says it, the toilet attendant says it
 the pornographer, the stenographer, the fashion photographer says
 babe, I'm on fire.'

le notiziole? :)
tze' :))
centinaia di migliaia di dollari, dicono in giro
30 secondi durante il superbowl costano circa un paio di milioni di
dollari, per friends la cifra non dovrebbe essere cambiata di molto
rispetto ai 500 mila dollari di cui sopra. si aggirera' intorno ai
6/700 mila dollari, facendo le dovute proporzioni con il costo della
pubblicita' durante il superbowl all'epoca :)
-- 
j./Dall'ecografia sembrava un pellerossa.
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 si aggirera' intorno ai 6/700 mila dollari
ero stato ottimista :)
stando ai dati di ottobre 2002 la cifra sarebbe $455,700
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=36204
-- 
j./The HOUSEWIFE hops off The Bride, runs into the kitchen, opens a 
drawer and comes out with a HUGE MOTHERFUCKIN BUTCHER KNIFE.
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broke it off when he refused to marry her.
La Imbruglia ha chiesto a Schwimmer di sposarlo???
Non ci credo neanche se mi fanno vedere il filmino...
<>> TAcchAN <<>
-- 
A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early.
    He arrives precisely when he means to (Gandalf)

 rents on the apartments they live in on the show.
Casomai non ce ne fossimo accorti...
MM

 serie, ma dubito che facesse una fine analoga...
Trovato qualcosa qui: 
http://www.vidiot.com/BH90210/quickref1.html#2190018
Roger Azarian č una star del tennis che ha qualche problema comportamentale,
c'č anche una pistola implicata. Non dice di piů, epperň ciň induce a
ritenere che Perry non avesse del tutto i ricordi confusi :)
MM

Ne ha fatti di progressi, adesso non è più fat né ugly ;))
gia', e' solo idiot... :)))
-- 
j./You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be 
misquoted, then used against you.
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 gia', e' solo idiot... :)))
BEEEEP- avresti dovuto dire "geek" ;)
Ma che ci fai ambetu sveglio a st'ora?
MM/non ne parliamo proprio

Ma che ci fai ambetu sveglio a st'ora?
ritornavo dalle gozzoviglie... e ora, appena sveglio, mi sento un
ancora un pochetto stanco... :))
-- 
j./All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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