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Rest In Peace Matthew Perry 💫🕊️

They have both been reunited.

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♍ August 23rd: Thespian, River Phoenix.

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Matthew Perry, Meredith Salenger, and River Phoenix during the making of the movie A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988).

I thought it was a great book and a great movie. Matthew was born in 1969, both River and Meredith were born in 1970. These are people from my generation. 

We lost River Phoenix on October 31, 1993 (age 23 years). And now Matthew Perry on October 28, 2023 (age 54 years). 

Both left us too young.

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80's Fest Child Actor of the day: River Phoenix #riverphoenix #RipRiverPhoenix #mosquitocoast #standbyme #anightinthelifeofjimmyreardon #indianajonesandthelastcrusade #explorers #littlenikita #runningonempty #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

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Happy 53rd Birthday Riv💜🌿

“But it was his death that immortalized River Phoenix. Rightly or wrongly, he would be remembered as one of the movie greats. He would never grow old, or make cuddly, safe films to top up his pension fund. His legacy is rooted in the earth of Hollywood. He had the innocent soul of someone ruined by their business like Marilyn Monroe, and the live-fast die-young rebel spirit of James Dean.”

He’s Still Here: The Biography of Joaquin Phoenix by Martin Howden

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A very happy Birthday to Ann Magnuson!

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JIMMY REARDON/ AREN’T YOU EVER GOING TO KISS ME GOODBYE (William Richert, 1986)

Hollywood has no shortage of coming-of-age teen comedies structured around a young man’s hormones. But there was also a time where it was less afraid to cast the heartthrob of the moment (River Phoenix) as an aspiring poet with beatnik aspirations, easily seducing and eagerly seducible, but on a quest to win his one true love. This is a romance with a comic tone hovering between the broad and the…

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Remembering Matthew Perry 1969-2023

Actor Matthew Perry has died at 54. He will always be known for his portrayal of Chandler Bing on TV's Friends (NBC 1994-2004). As the sarcastic but thoughtful friend, he stole many scenes.

opening credits of Boys Will Be Boys

Prior to landing Friends, he began as a teen actor appearing on a number of film and TV shows including A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, Second Chance which evolved into Boys Will Be Boys (Fox 1987-1988), a few memorable episodes on TV's Growing Pains, She's Out of Control, Doug Liman's debut Getting In. After becoming a big staple of Must See TV in the 90s, he appeared in Chris Farley's final film Almost Heroes. And post-Friends, he starred on Aaron Sorkin's criminally underrated behind-the-scenes of an SNL type show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC 2006-07).

Chris Farley and Matthew Perry in Almost Heroes

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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in another world i think a young ione skye could’ve pulled off venetia catton

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Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit TV sitcom Friends, has died at 54, according to reports.

Perry drowned at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, sources including a representative for the actor and law enforcement told NBC News. Other US outlets also reported Perry had died.

After small roles in Growing Pains, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dream On, Perry scored a role in NBC sitcom Friends in 1994. The comedy, about six friends living in New York City, quickly became a phenomenon, winning multiple Emmys and scoring record ratings.

Perry went on to play the sarcastic and neurotic Chandler in 10 seasons with the 2004 finale reaching over 52 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.

“People come up to me every day and say, ‘Hey Chandler!’ I don’t respond to it,” he said in a 2014 interview. “If somebody says, ‘Hi Matthew, I love your work’, that’s one thing. But if somebody goes ‘Yo, Chandler’, I don’t like that. I’m tired of it. I’m not Chandler.”

Perry was born in Massachusetts in 1969 to an American father and a Canadian mother, who would later move her son to Ottawa to work as a press aide to Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau. In his bestselling 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry recalled acting up after his father abandoned his family to chase his own dreams of becoming an actor – including bullying a young Justin Trudeau. “I decided to end my argument with him when he was put in charge of an entire army,” he wrote.

At 15 Perry moved to Hollywood, with the hope of reconnecting with his father. It was there he began to enjoy acting, and was eventually spotted at a diner, “charming a bunch of young women”, by director William Richert, who left a note asking him to be in his next movie, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, alongside River Phoenix.

Perry was 24 when he started playing Chandler and was relatively unknown, just like his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. In a 2019 interview, Friends creator David Crane said Chandler was the most difficult character to cast; actors Craig Bierko, Jon Cryer and Jon Favreau were also considered for the role.

“Marta [Kauffman, co-creator] and I were thinking Chandler is just poorly written,” added Crane. “Then Matthew came in and you went, ‘Oh, well, there you go. Done. Done. That’s the guy.’”

Perry was nominated for an Emmy award five times, including once for his Friends role and twice for his role as lawyer Joe Quincy on The West Wing.

During his tenure on Friends, Perry starred in films including Fools Rush In with Salma Hayek, Three to Tango with Neve Campbell and The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis. He also played small roles in Ally McBeal and Scrubs.

In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, he confessed: “I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be.”

Perry’s personal life was afflicted by addiction, starting in 1997 when he became addicted to pain medication after a jetski accident. He later claimed to not remember three years of his time on Friends and to spending over $9m on his fight to stay sober.

“I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128lbs, I was on Friends getting watched by 30 million people – and that’s why I can’t watch the show, because I was brutally thin,” he said. Perry later admitted he had suffered severe anxiety “every night” while filming the show and felt nothing when the show ended.

Once Friends ended in 2004, Perry’s next small-screen lead was in Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was cancelled after one season. In 2009 he starred in hit comedy 17 Again alongside Zac Efron, and later guest-starred on both The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

Perry also led one season sitcom Go On and a remake of The Odd Couple which lasted for three seasons. In 2016 he wrote and starred in play The End of Longing which opened in the West End and later transferred to Broadway.

In 2019, he was put in a two-week coma when his colon exploded due to opiate abuse; he had 14 surgeries due to his opiate abuse. “At this point in my life, the words of gratitude pour out of me because I should be dead, and yet somehow I am not,” he wrote in last year’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was a hit with readers and critics. The Guardian’s Barbara Ellen called the memoir “harrowing and revealing about the juncture where extreme compound addiction collides with mega-celebrity”.

“You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that,” Perry wrote.

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Matthew Langford Perry (August 19, 1969 – October 28, 2023) Film and television actor, comedian and producer. He gained international recognition in the 1990s for playing Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends (1994–2004).

After graduating, he took the role of Chazz Russell in the TV series Second Chance. After 13 episodes, Second Chance became Boys Will Be Boys, with the plots refocused on the adventures of Chazz and his friends. After the show's single season, Perry stayed in Los Angeles and made his screen debut in the 1988 film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon. In 1989, Perry had a three-episode arc on the series Growing Pains, in which he portrayed Carol Seaver's boyfriend Sandy who dies in the hospital after a drunk-driving crash.

In the midst of his many continuing guest roles on TV, Perry was cast as a regular on the 1990 CBS sitcom Sydney, playing the younger brother of Valerie Bertinelli's title character. In 1991, he made a guest appearance on Beverly Hills, 90210 as Roger Azarian. Perry landed his next TV starring role on the ABC sitcom Home Free, which aired only 11 episodes in the spring of 1993, followed by a sitcom pilot titled LAX 2194.

As well as having starred in the short-lived television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Perry appeared in several films.

Perry was co-creator, co-writer, executive producer, and star of the ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine, which ran from February to April 2011. In August 2012, Perry began starring as Ryan King, a sportscaster, on the NBC sitcom Go On. The series was canceled on May 10, 2013. Perry co-developed and starred in the CBS sitcom The Odd Couple portraying Oscar Madison from 2015 to 2017.

Later in 2017, he starred as Ted Kennedy in the mini-series The Kennedys: After Camelot. (Wikipedia)

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30 years without you earth side, River Jude 💖

This anniversary hits a little harder for me ngl, & the reason is, i’m now the age River was when he passed away. I found Riv when I was about 14/15 & immediately fell in love with not just how attractive he was, but how much of a beautiful person he was as well. He really was one of the people who molded me in my teenage years into the person I am now, and back then I remember thinking he’d obviously passed young, but 23 feels eons away when your 15 - but now that i’m at this age my heart just breaks more for River and all his friends & family. I don’t even feel like an adult yet, not really. And I don’t totally feel like a kid. I’m in that weird in between that all people around this age feel, still trying to figure out life and being terrified, I haven’t even lived yet! But somehow this time was all River got. I can’t completely wrap my head around it, when I think too much about it I get hit with a wave of anxiety and sadness, but I also have to remember River had 23 years here. It wasn’t a long time, but it was time. He shared his beautiful gifts and heart and soul with this world and people saw that and connected to it. He brought love, and joy, and peace into this world even if it was only for a short time. I would’ve loved to see where River would be now, anyone who loves him understands that & feels the same. He would’ve done amazing things and it hurts my heart that he was gone at only 23 before life even starts, but I know me and the other people out there who share his values will try our hardest to carry on his legacy, even if its only in a small way. Thank you for the impact you had and continue to have on my life River Jude, you’ll always hold a place in my heart. I wish you’d gotten more than your 23 years on Earth, but damn is the universe lucky to have you.