When you get down to it, people in show business can be no different from the rest of us. They fail to prepare for the financial future, make bad investments, and have no back-up career.

I can't help but love that a movie about video game characters, Disney got the license rights from all those companies to use real video game characters that we all know. Not so much TOY STORY as much as WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, and I even dig the mixture of the characters from the old school arcades, the Nintendo, PS, and other generations.



~Q*bert for the win!

Are there any Friends fans on the Board? I have a few questions about the series.

I watched it.

I used to watch Friends, too. What's your question?

"We were on a breeeeeaaaak!"

Okay. In what season did Monica and Chandler become lovers? Also, Rachel and Ross endlessly got together, broke up, then got together again. I can't keep track. Any help?

Monica and Chandler first got together in the 4th season finale (the one in England when Ross married that annoying British woman).

Ross and Rachel broke up and got back together a few times, conceived Emma one of those times, and then ended up together by the series finale.

Regarding Monica, in what season did Richard enter the picture and why didn't Rach and Joey continue their relationship?

Richard came around in season 3. Rachel and Joey thought it was too weird because of Ross and because they were all friends for too long. Just as well; that whole storyline was awful.

Thanks. I watch just about each rerun, but I've never paid much attention to the story continuity.

The Richard storyline was one of my favorites, and the Rachel and Joey storyline was my least favorite. I think Joey was my least favorite character.

Ironically, two of favorite episodes centered around Joey. The first was when Joey consented to read "Little Women" if Rachel would read "The Shining". When Joey gave away the ending of "The Shining", Rachel gets even by telling him that Beth dies. The look on Joey's face is priceless.

The other is when Phoebe tries to teach Joey to speak French. He is hopeless, and his efforts at correct French pronunciation are hilarious.

Maybe everyone is familiar with it, but there's a Britcom called "Coupling" which can be described in exactly the same words as "Friends," except that it's set in London. There's only about 30 episodes, which are posted on Hulu.com right. I think it's actually much better written and acted than Friends.



NBC tried to do an American version, but it was pretty terrible.

random Happy Birthday congrats to Liam Neeson (60) and Prince (54).

Okay. I knew who Kim Kardashian is, and that she has a reality show that includes family members, including Bruce Jenner somehow. But I never watched the show until last night when my daughter had some friends over. I didn't see the whole show, but it left my head spinning. Here's a synopsis:

The mom has an overblown sense of self-importance and runs around with a cell phone, acting stressed, but doing absolutely nothing. The sisters may be the dumbest creatures God has put on this planet, who constantly have a deer-in-the-headlight look. The brother is the most pathetic of all. He's an adult, who's constantly whining to his mom about how nobody's helping him look for a house. On one trip a sister went with him and offered the brilliant advice, "You'll need a gardener."

Meanwhile this guy keeps insulting Bruce Jenner, who's apparently his step-dad, because he and his sisters are apparently too good to consider his advice. The brat even whines at a family meal that all of his friends have dads, who can help them, but he doesn't even though he keeps patronizingly rejecting help from apparently the only sane family member (even though he's turning into a woman).

And throughout all of this Kim K. is running around from place to place wearing assorted wigs, pretending she's someone else. At first I thought this was bizarre, but after seeing her family, I don't blame her a bit for pretending to be someone else.

Prepare for Guinness Book of World Records...THE MOVIE!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/08/guinness-book-world-records-film?newsfeed=true

We were just talking about this movie on another thread. They are remaking Stephen King's "IT". I look forward to it. That makes two King movies coming out (11-22-63 is going to be a movie as well..next year I think.)

(note to SB..open the link slowly my dear. Your friend is waiting for you.

TIS


http://www.inquisitr.com/250764/stephen-kings-it-remake-2012/

It scared the crap out of me, for the obvious reasons. The original was very well done. No need to remake it, IMO. Tim Curry was great!

I know that Olivant has watched America's Got Talent in the past. I don't know who else watches, but the other night one of the contestants said he was a former soldier who was in the military 14 years and injured by a grenade in Afghanistan. He claims that he received a brain injury and broke his back, and now limps and has a stutter. He also claimed that he never sang before one of his caregivers suggested he sing in the shower to help with his stutter. AGT also showed a photo of him taken overseas in uniform.

Not only has the National Guard said he was not in service for 14 years, but the military has no record of him being deployed or injured in such a way. His ex-wife says that he was the lead singer of a band for four years, so there goes the shower singing, and it turns out that the photo is of another soldier!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/timothy-poe-americas-got-talent-military-lie-334838

OMG what an embarrassment. I don't watch the show but heard bits/pieces of this story and wasn't sure what it was about. That's horrible.



TIS

I don't watch AGT since it no longer features Jackie. But, I know about this contestant. He now says that his memory was affected by a head injury.

I don't understand how these guys think they'll get away with it.

It absolutely baffles me whenever people try to pull such public conjobs that can be easily disproven.

I don't think Michael Douglas has made a movie since Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. That was around the time we learned of his cancer. I wonder if he's ok? Anyone know of any updates on him? I sure wish him well.



TIS

Last I heard he was filming Liberace, Tis. I think Matt Damon was to play his gay lover?

Oh that's right. I forgot about that movie. Haven't heard much more about it.


Thanks


TIS

His wife,(Cathrine Zeta Jones), was on one of the late night tv shows the other night and mentioned him. I was half asleep and don't remember the specs of what she said, but I believe hes doing better. I'd google her name and who knows it might be up on youtube or IMDB.

Cash for Crash? Driver in Lindsay Lohan Collision Alleges Bribe Attempt

James tells TMZ that he didn't realize he'd collided with a celebrity and thought the other driver was about to flee the scene. He also says that when he tried to exchange information, the SUV driver attempted to keep him away from the vehicle before suggesting they "go to the bank."

"Him and the assistant took me across the street and told me this was some kind of famous person and they didn't want to be in the media," he relates to TMZ. "But I'd already called 911 because they were trying to get away from the scene. But they packed a bag and then the limousine driver told me, 'Don't mention the bag to the cops.'" He says the entire exchange, including the back-and-forth over the mysterious pink bag, is on the 911 recording.

http://wonderwall.msn.com/entertainment/lindsay-lohan-gets-back-to-work-after-scary-car-crash-1686824.story#!wallState=26__%2Fmovies%2Fgossip-driver-in-lindsay-lohan-crash-alleges-bribe-attempt-1686834.story

He had a very small role in Steven Soderbergh's HAYWIRE which came out earlier this year. (But it was shot in early '10.)