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Lisa and boats (Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:25pm ET)

by Gunnar Carteng
if Lisa Kud row a boat she would be dangerous - that is if she didn't sink first ~ Gunnar
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I like lisa kudrow a lot (Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:25pm ET)

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by jessica
I like lisa kudrow a lot and i'm her friend she's really good at acting in movies and friends the programme with her best friends matthew perry, jenifer aniston, courtney cox, matt leblanc, and david schwimmer. from Your best friend jessica pedley
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Show moving to 10:30pm (Fri Jul 8, 2005 1:27pm ET)

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by koala79
Glad some other people are enjoying the show...I heard that it's moving to 10:30pm this weekend and just wanted to make sure everyone knew! Have a great weekend!
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Great Article in Washington Post (Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:32pm ET)

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by Arch Nemesis
The Former 'Friends' Actress Is Starring in Her Own 'Comeback.' Not So Dumb, Huh?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901726.html?sub=AR

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First two episodes repeating (Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:33pm ET)

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by helena
Caught some of the Comeback the other night and it's very funny--kind of off-beat and eclectic. I will definitely catch the reruns...btw, for all the Kudrow fans interested, they are replaying the first two episodes on Friday night at 8pm! I'll be there! Smile

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The Comeback with Lisa?! (Thu May 12, 2005 5:48pm ET)

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by puddy7
Heard Lisa's gonna be on HBO in a new show starting June 5 and it sounds like it's gonna be good! Here's the article I read about it:
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/46325.htm

Anyone know any more?! Yeah for the Comeback!
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Article from NYTimes on Lisa (Mon May 16, 2005 7:18pm ET)

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by puddy7
May 15, 2005
Lisa Kudrow, This Time Without Any Friends
By ALEXANDRA JACOBS
Santa Monica, Calif.
ON a recent afternoon along Montana Avenue, a street filled with the kind of rich suburban-mom boutiques that emit the gentlest of dings when you cross the threshold, about 50 cast and crew members gathered to tape a scene for the new HBO series "The Comeback." Directed by Michael Patrick King, late of HBO's "Sex and the City," it stars the former "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a has-been actress who has consented to be trailed by video cameras 24 hours a day in the hope of reinvigorating her career - for, as she briskly declares, "Reality TV is the reality of TV - and I'm a survivor."
In the course of a few minutes, the terminally plucky Valerie fumbles with a dangling body microphone ("They can put a man on the moon, but they can't make a body mike that doesn't make you look like you're passing linguine?" she wisecracks) and strolls past a newsstand, where she glimpses an Entertainment Weekly cover that asks "Is Reality TV Over?" and visibly deflates. It took 12 takes to strike the right note of spontaneous awkwardness in this scene.
It's a lot of work to make a fake reality TV show - and fake, its co-creators Ms. Kudrow and Mr. King want to stress, is exactly what "The Comeback" is. Scheduled to follow "Entourage," another knowing examination of show business, it is not some derivation of "Lisa Kudrow," à la Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or Kirstie Alley in "Fat Actress." It is "a black comedy about the reality of television," as Mr. King put it, entirely fictional and scripted (by a staff of six writers drawn from sitcom, dramedy and sketch comedy). For starters, Ms. Kudrow is not exactly in need of a comeback, having worked steadily for over a decade, most notably as the spacily sage bohemian Phoebe Buffay on the NBC hit "Friends." "I have nothing to complain about," she said during lunch with Mr. King at Michael's in Santa Monica a few days before the Montana Avenue scene was taped. Nor is she interested in playing a version of herself, a married woman with a child living quietly - "I am not in the tabloids," she pointed out - near Beverly Hills. Mr. King smiled indulgently. "I've been very blessed," he said, "to work with actresses who were not so self-involved in their image that they don't want to act."
The two collaborators first became friendly on an NBC lot in the early 1990's, while Mr. King was struggling to make the leap from sitcom writer to executive producer and Ms. Kudrow was playing a supporting role on "Mad About You." She was also a member of the renowned comedy troupe the Groundlings. (Mr. King remembered being impressed by her improvisation of Audrey Hepburn visiting a hillbilly fishing program.) One of her monologue characters was called Your Favorite Actress on a Talk Show: "Just me laughing at this endlessly needy ego that's self-promoting," Ms. Kudrow said, "but in the name of talking about 'the work.' "
Then both of their fortunes turned. "Friends" and "Sex and the City" were lavished with critical and popular acclaim and dominated the Emmys and Golden Globes for years. "I would see Lisa at awards shows, in gowns - you know, regal - sitting at the next table," Mr. King said. "We'd analyze who was closer to the stage and therefore more likely to win." In 2004, both shows wrapped up long runs and went into lucrative syndication. After the artistic license he'd enjoyed on cable - the ability to use profanity, the freedom from a canned laugh track - Mr. King was wary of working on a network. Meanwhile, Ms. Kudrow, who will turn 42 in July, was being offered quirky roles in independent films, going from acting younger than her age on "Friends" to occasionally being asked to play "matronly" or "uptight." The Favorite Actress character wafted back into her consciousness, and she and Mr. King met at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills to discuss it.
They discovered a mutual interest in the sudden on-air dominance of reality TV, a concept that didn't even exist when their own mega-successful shows first went on the air. "When I would watch shows like 'The Amazing Race,' " Mr. King said, "I would always wonder stuff like, when they were on the plane, where are the cameras? How does this really happen? People are so familiar with reality shows, but maybe they might be interested in seeing one more step back, where the camera's included." Thus "The Comeback" is purposefully, artfully sloppy. In its dogged, unrelenting simulation of reality - including a scene in which Ms. Cherish's husband audibly defecates - it is somehow much more true than actual reality TV. "The camera lingers," Ms. Kudrow said. "Past the point of comfort," Mr. King added.
Part of the fun of the show is that it addresses the continuing ratings battle between traditional comedies and reality TV. As the story goes, "Valerie Cherish" rose to prominence on a sitcom called "I'm It!" that ran from 1989 to 1992. "A B-level sitcom," Mr. King said. "You know those shows that were on for years that you never saw? 'I'm It!' is one of those. This is of a different time, when women were on top in television, and it was like: 'She had it all! She was a lawyer! She was sexy!' " A former writer for "Murphy Brown" and "Cybill," Mr. King waxed nostalgic for an era of television history when "there was all this kind of 'Philadelphia Story' stuff that women were allowed to do." He continued: "They had long monologues, they talked and talked and talked, they all had business suits and their apartments had views of skylines. Where did they go? Where did they go? Where did they go?"
In one of the more hilarious and excruciating moments in the pilot episode of "The Comeback," Valerie Cherish learns that she has been downgraded from a leading role as an architect in a new sitcom called "Room and Bored" (about "four sexy singles in Manhattan Beach," a wink at "Friends" and "Sex and the City," Mr. King said), to the marginal and humiliating part of "Aunt Sassy," the landlady who lives upstairs like Mrs. Roper on "Three's Company." An overhead camera in Valerie Cherish's kitchen captures her practicing one line over and over as she works her way through a chocolate cake, pulled out of a refrigerator packed with Zone meals. "She reminds me of a salesman - like Willy Loman," Ms. Kudrow said. "Just give her a modicum of respect - just a little drop - and she'll be really cooperative."
Mr. King said: "No matter how much she achieves, there'll always be a 22-year-old actress standing next to her, because Valerie Cherish isn't real, we didn't have to pay homage to anything except the story we wanted to tell, about how a woman can be ground up by her own need."
As lunch wound down, Michael McCarty, the restaurant's owner, came over to pay his own homage to the star. "Nice to see you," he said. "Thanks for coming in today. Hope you enjoyed yourself. Eat your greens. Keep doing it!"
"You too," Ms. Kudrow said politely. Mr. McCarty ambled off.
"You see?" Mr. King said in a stage whisper. "That's what Valerie Cherish hopes to get. That would make her day. But it's not going to happen. We want people to sit in the uncomfortable reality of what reality is, versus the slick, cleaned-up version of reality TV."
Alexandra Jacobs is an editor at The New York Observer.

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Lisa Kudrow (Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:48pm ET)

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by Catriona MacQueen
Hi lisa! I am Catriona and I am your biggest youngest fan! I have a lovely little puppy who is 5 months and she loves watching you on friends! She is your biggest dog fan of all time! Her and I would love to meet you! Please e-mail me if you get this. Lots and lots of love from your all time biggest youngest fan Catriona and your biggest ever doggy fan rosy xxx
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TO Smartboy (Sat Dec 4, 2004 9:58pm ET)

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by Becky
TO Smartboy,

yep I'm a female.Thanks for telling me about other movies that Lisa kudrow had starred in or appeared.

From one of Lisa Kudrow's biggest fan,
Becky.

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Kiss (Wed Sep 1, 2004 10:07pm ET)

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by Smartboy
I would like to direct the first part of this message to the last person before me who submitted a comment. Because the person uses the pen name "Becky," I would imagine that it is a female. But then again, you never know. In any case, I would like to tell this person about other movies in which Lisa starred, or at least appeared. I thought that "Anilyze This" was very funny. I was very happy when I learned that they were going to make a sequel. However, once "Anilyze That" came out, I felt a little sad about how small Lisa's part in it was! Although I thought that the story was pertty decent, I would have liked to have seen more of Lisa's pretty face, girlish figure and "beautiful" hair! One thing that I think will always be true is that my all-time favorite Kudrow movie will be "Marci X"! If you go to the page right before this one, you will find three messages that I have submitted regarding this movie. In between my first and second and second and third, there are messages from two other people who have responded to my messages. You will also find that on this page, there is a message from me wishing Lisa a happy birthday. In any case, I would now like to let you know why I titled this message "kiss." The has to do with the special issue of "People" magazine that was dedicated to the end of the series of "Friends." This magazine had a "lot" of "beautiful" pictures of Lisa! One that sticks out in my mind is one that was taken during the premire of one of the movies in which Lisa starred. In this picture, there was a woman almost as pretty as Lisa giving her a big kiss on the cheek. Under the picture was a caption saying "The 'Friends' star gets a smooch from her sister at the premire of her new movie" I cannot tell you how cozy the two of them looked together! It really filled me up to know that Lisa has an older sister who loves her very dearly and takes pride in her success. Before signing off, I would like to mention one more picture from this magazine. This picture came from a section devoted to the things that the "Friends" do on their time off. In this section, there was one picture of Lisa with a caption that said, "Kudrow takes a dive." In this picture, Lisa had just jumped off of the back of a boat into some body of water that was never revealed (probably salt water). In this picture, she was wearing a "beautiful" black bakini. This site of her in this attire was one more example of a time that that girl made me feel giddy!
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All of the movies that I had watch her in (Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:54pm ET)

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by Becky
Here's a list of all the movies that I had watch Lisa Kudrow in:

Dr. Dolittle 2
Lucky Numbers
Hanging Up
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

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Re: All of the movies that I had watch her in (Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:14am ET)

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by sophie
don't forget marci x!!! hip hop shop till you drop!
:D:D:D:D
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Stunning dresser (Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:29am ET)

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by Sarah
Very funny actress. I like her humility and I love the way she dresses. Her clothes are always so unique and stunning, both style and colours. Lisa you are very very cool.
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