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Friends star takes £3-a-night theatre role
Ananova ^ | February 1, 2003 | Ananova

Posted on 02/01/2003 5:57:27 AM PST by MadIvan

David Schwimmer has swapped his £650,000-an-episode Friends role for a £3-a-night part in a raunchy play.

The actor, who plays Ross in the hit series, appears as a high-living movie director in The Turnaround at the Coast Playhouse in Los Angeles.

According to The Sun, his character snorts cocaine and has "kinky sex."

Schwimmer said: "Friends has given me the financial security to choose other roles without money being a deciding factor."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: actor; friends; schwimmer
Finally found a role best suited to his talents, I dare say. And an appropriate salary.

Regards, Ivan


1 posted on 02/01/2003 5:57:27 AM PST by MadIvan
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Bump!
2 posted on 02/01/2003 5:57:45 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
Here in the U.S., we call people like this "trash." What are they called in the U.K.?
3 posted on 02/01/2003 6:02:25 AM PST by Tax-chick (Christ has overcome the world!)
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To: MadIvan
Probably not a role just recreating his own life on stage
4 posted on 02/01/2003 6:02:45 AM PST by apackof2
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To: Tax-chick
"Rubbish". ;)

As in "good riddance to bad rubbish". ;)

Regards, Ivan

5 posted on 02/01/2003 6:03:58 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
Schwimmer said: "Friends has given me the financial security to choose other roles without money being a deciding factor."

He hasn't let much of anything be a deciding factor. His choices of rolls have been pathetic at best.

I concur with your comments on this one.

6 posted on 02/01/2003 6:04:01 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
I liked him in precisely one role, as Herbert Sobel in "Band of Brothers". In the book, Sobel is an utter prat. Schwimmer plays him as being an utter prat, or rather is himself to the extent that he releases the prat within. Therefore, his portrayal was a success.

Regards, Ivan

7 posted on 02/01/2003 6:05:41 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
According to The Sun, his character snorts cocaine and has "kinky sex."

YES. But does he still have that gormless look on his face?

8 posted on 02/01/2003 6:12:12 AM PST by Happygal
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YES. But does he still have that gormless look on his face?

Darling, I doubt a sandblaster could wipe the gormless look off him. ;)

Love, Ivan

9 posted on 02/01/2003 6:13:02 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
......a £3-a-night part........

I suppose this quiets his nagging conscience from telling him that his salary from FRIENDS is not commensurate with its societal contribution by a factor of a thousand and also helps to demonstrate to the 'unwashed millions' his solidarity with the proletariat.

10 posted on 02/01/2003 6:15:26 AM PST by DoctorMichael (Liberals SuK; Liberalism SuX)
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To: MadIvan
Thanks MI. I appreciate the comments. I haven't seen band of brothers. I'll have to admit I have a very hard time spending money on movies made by folks who never had one goog thing to say about the military in their lives, until they found they could make a buck off military movies. Even some of them who say nice things now, were pumping $10,000 a crack into the Clinton war chest, and everyone knows what a termite that guy was when it came to the military.

I guess I'll just have to base my allegience to our men and women in uniform without the latest batch of movies.

I don't fault anyone for seeing them, so don't get me wrong, this wasn't a veiled attemt to say something nasty abou you or anyone else. I just don't feel compelled to see them myself.

11 posted on 02/01/2003 6:16:14 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoctorMichael
Well if it gets him off the telly, I shan't complain. ;)

Regards, Ivan

12 posted on 02/01/2003 6:16:44 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: DoughtyOne
Ordinarily I agree with you - however Band of Brothers has a very good Stephen Ambrose book behind it, and as such, is well done and executed. I didn't like "Windtalkers" for example, because of the negative way it showed American troops behaving towards their Navajo counterparts. I liked Band of Brothers because it showed men of genuine character...who actually happen to be the real thing.

Regards, Ivan

13 posted on 02/01/2003 6:18:12 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan

Take that MadIvan.  : )

14 posted on 02/01/2003 6:19:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The UK is OK by me.)
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To: MadIvan
Thanks. I think you make a reasoned point there. I can't argue with it.
15 posted on 02/01/2003 6:21:52 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The UK is OK by me.)
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To: MadIvan
Even the casting was "dead on" for Band of Brothers. When you see pictures of the soldiers in Ambrose's book, and then look at the actors, you know someone did their homework. They even got the accents down, like the sergeant from New York that lost his legs. You hear some of the stories he tells about his experiences, and the actor that played him sounds like he was plucked from the exact same neighborhood. Spielbergs politics may suck, but he did a great service to the country by creating the Band of Brothers miniseries. If you haven't seen it, do so immediately.
16 posted on 02/01/2003 10:17:36 AM PST by Tailback
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To: MadIvan
IMO, he is being overpaid.
17 posted on 02/01/2003 12:01:37 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
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To: MadIvan
Agreed.
18 posted on 02/01/2003 2:28:56 PM PST by weikel (Your commie has no regard for human life not even his own)
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To: MadIvan
Looks like common sense was also not a "deciding factor".
19 posted on 02/01/2003 7:41:12 PM PST by CyberAnt ( Syracuse where are you?)
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To: MadIvan
About $5 a night in US dollars.
20 posted on 02/01/2003 7:42:13 PM PST by LPStar
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