求friends的英文介绍

求friends的英文介绍
求friends的英文介绍

求friends的英文介绍
Friends was an Emmy award-winning American situation comedy about a group of six friends living in the New York City borough of Manhattan.It was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman,and produced by Kevin S.Bright,Marta Kauffman and David Crane.It was originally broadcast from 1994 to 2004.One of the most popular television series of all time,the show has been broadcast in over one hundred countries and still continues to attract good ratings for its repeat episodes.The final episode of the show remains one of the largest in terms of television audience numbers in the U.S.
Friends was created in 1994 by David Crane,who wrote Friends in Burbank,California,and who got his start working with the legendary Norman Lear and Marta Kauffman,who served as writer and producer of Dream On,Friends was aimed at young adults who,during the early 1990s,were identified by their café culture,dating scene and modern independence.
Two of the series' stars,Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston,had already appeared in several unsuccessful sitcom pilots.
Another,Lisa Kudrow,was also familiar with working on sitcoms having played Ursula Buffay on Mad About You.In the series,it was revealed that Ursula was the twin sister of Kudrow's Friends character,Phoebe.Kudrow was fired during filming of the pilot of Frasier after being cast as Roz.
Courteney Cox was already an accomplished TV and film actress when she was cast,having appeared in the likes of Ace Ventura:Pet Detective and had had several minor roles on sitcoms such as Seinfeld and Family Ties.
David Schwimmer was wanted by the writers of Friends for the part of Ross Geller from the beginning; having auditioned for Crane and Kauffman in the past,Schwimmer was said to have a memorable voice and was most known for his Broadway work,but he did also direct some of the Friends episodes.
Matt LeBlanc appeared as Vinnie Verducci,the boyfriend of Kelly Bundy in Married...with Children in the early 1990s and starred in that sitcom's short-lived spin-off,Top of the Heap as well as Vinnie & Bobby,but before that had mainly been focusing on advertising and modeling work when he was cast as Joey Tribbiani.
The show is a comedy mainly about people in their thirties just trying to live everyday lives.
Behind the scenes,the show was known for its unusually cohesive and unified cast.The six main actors made deliberate efforts,from early on,to keep the show's ensemble format and to not allow any one of them to dominate.This included requesting that all actors on the show be nominated either for the same category of award ("Supporting Actor" until 2001,then "Lead Actor" from 2002 onwards) or not at all,and entering collective instead of individual salary negotiations.[1] The actors became such close friends that one guest star,Tom Selleck,reported sometimes feeling left out.This was a criticism later echoed by British actress Helen Baxendale,who guest starred as Ross's second wife,Emily.
The character of Ursula (Phoebe's twin sister) first appeared in the sitcom Mad About You as a waitress.Kudrow played Ursula on both Mad About You and Friends.The show's creators did not originally intend for Phoebe to have a twin,but they added the character to explain why Kudrow was appearing on two different shows on the same network,at one time as a part of the same Thursday night line-up.
Friends featured many of its celebrity guest stars as secondary characters in the show.Most U.S.sitcoms use celebrities in cameo appearances to raise ratings during important sweeps weeks,but some celebrities appeared on Friends throughout each TV season.These stars included Brad Pitt,Bruce Willis,George Clooney,Sean Penn,Danny DeVito,Robin Williams,Helen Hunt,Brooke Shields,Julia Roberts,Sarah Ferguson,Freddie Prinze,Jr.,Ben Stiller,Alec Baldwin,Ralph Lauren,Hank Azaria,Anna Faris,Winona Ryder,and Isabella Rossellini.British business mogul Richard Branson made a guest appearance in a Season Four episode.Creator Of R'n'B Girl Group "Pussycat Dolls",Robin Antin made an appearance.One guest star who gained a recurring role was Tom Selleck as Monica’s older long-term boyfriend.The parents of the six were cast using celebrities:for example,Kathleen Turner played Chandler's drag-queen father,Elliott Gould played Ross and Monica's father,and Teri Garr played Phoebe's flaky birth mother.
Four CSI stars also played in Friends:Aisha Tyler from CSI:Las Vegas,Eddie Cahill from CSI:NY and Emily Procter & Sofia Milos from CSI:Miami.Child star Dakota Fanning played the role of Mackenzie in Season 10 of the series in the episode 'The One With Princess Consuela'.

Few ensemble sitcoms of the 1990s and early 2000s commanded as much love and devotion from its fans as the immensely popular NBC series Friends -- and few such sitcoms generated as many "water-cooler ...

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Few ensemble sitcoms of the 1990s and early 2000s commanded as much love and devotion from its fans as the immensely popular NBC series Friends -- and few such sitcoms generated as many "water-cooler conversations" as the characters' lives and loves evolved over the series' ten-year run. Set in New York City, the action largely took place in two neighboring loft apartments. One of these was the home of Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), who can be described as the series' "rock" -- or better yet, "den mother." An assistant chef who later ran her own restaurant, Monica lived with her best friend, Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), who had come to New York after running out on her wedding; employed as a waitress in the earlier episodes, Rachel later became a buyer for a retail fashion chain, and finally an assistant to a high-profile designer. Occasionally dropping into Monica's apartment was her brother, Ross (David Schwimmer), a paleontologist who spent most of the first season coming to grips with the fact that his wife, Carol (Jane Sibbett), had declared herself a lesbian and divorced him (Carol would later give birth to Ross' son Ben, whom she and her partner insisted upon raising themselves). Across the hall from Monica's flat lived Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), an aspiring actor whose professional luck was generally bad until he landed a continuing role on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives -- as a man with a woman's brain! Joey lived with "corporate guy" Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), who was regarded as the class clown of the bunch. A frequent guest at both apartments was Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), an airheaded will-o’-the-wisp who never quite got it all together at any one time.
When the "friends" weren't at home or at work, they could be found hanging out at Central Perk, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse manned by Gunther (played by real-life "coffee guy" James Michael Tyler, who did not receive screen credit until well into the series' run), where Phoebe occasionally performed as a folksinger. Gradually and inevitably, many of friends became lovers. First it was Ross and Rachel, a relationship that came to a screeching halt in season three when Ross slept with another woman when the couple was "on a break." Ross then ended up marrying the prickly Emily Waltham (Helen Baxendale) during a jaunt to England in season four. That this alliance was doomed from the start was demonstrated when, during the ceremony, Ross said Rachel's name instead of Emily's. After the dissolution of the marriage, a drunken Ross and Rachel impulsively got hitched in Las Vegas at the end of season five, but they soon realized that they'd acted too hastily, and were themselves divorced. In season eight, Rachel gave birth to Ross' baby, a girl named Emma. Meanwhile, Chandler and Monica, who after "getting it on" at Ross' wedding ceremony tried to keep their relationship a secret from everyone, were married at the close of season seven. They would later discover that they could not have children, whereupon they adopted a baby from a woman named Erica (Anna Faris). In a similar vein, the whimsical Phoebe had earlier agreed to be artificially inseminated so that she could bear a child for her half-brother, Frank (Giovanni Ribisi), and his wife (and former teacher), Alice (Debra Jo Rupp). Ultimately, Phoebe gave birth to triplets. Phoebe also had another sibling, a twin sister named Ursula -- actually the same character played by Lisa Kudrow in the earlier NBC sitcom Mad About You, which was still in production when Friends debuted on September 22, 1994.
The series' tenth and final season (2003-2004) wrapped up several loose plot strands. Having admitted that he always loved Rachel, Joey proposed to her, but the marriage never came off -- and in an eleventh-hour decision, Rachel forsook plans to move to Paris, and returned to Ross. After several desultory relationships, Phoebe married a nice guy named Mike (Paul Rudd). And as Friends approached its two-part finale, Erica, the birth mother of Monica and Chandler's soon-to-be-adopted baby went into labor -- and surprisingly delivered twins, which they named Erica (after the "real" mom) and Jack (after Chandler's dad). After the storyline of the series ended, Joey would end up moving out of New York, heading to L.A. to pursue a film career, thereby setting up the premise of Matt LeBlanc's spin-off sitcom Joey. At or near the number one ratings slot throughout most of its run, Friends also earned a veritable warehouse of Emmy Awards -- not to mention full-fledged stardom for all of the series' regulars. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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