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老友记fans该知道的100件事 [新人报到贴】

[日期:2012-07-31]   [字体: ]
老友记fans该知道的100件事

This was taken from article an in Radio Times on the 28/7/97. It contains nearly all of the information that all you real friends fans should know. I hope you like it, as a lot of being nice to people, (and begging) got me a copy, and it took ages for me to type out.

  【译文】这篇文章是从97年7月28号的Radio Times看来的。它几乎包括了真正的老友记迷应知道的所有信息。我希望你能喜欢它,......我花了很长时间才把这些打出来。

  1. The first line of dialogue in the very first pilot episode of Friends was "There's nothing to tell.

  【译文】老友记第一季第一集第一句台词是"There's nothing to tell!"(是Monica说的:There's nothing to tell! He's just some guy I work with!)

  2. A 30-second commercial during the break in the show in America cost advertisers £500,000.

  【译文】剧集在美国本土播出时,中间30分钟的广告插播时间里,花掉广告厂商50万英镑。

  3. Other titles considered for the series included "Once upon a time in the West Village", "Insomnia Café" and "Across the Hall". The original title, "Friends like Us", was shortened to the current one-worder.

  【译文】剧组曾考虑过使用其它名称作为本剧的剧名:"Once upon a time in the West Village"、"Insomnia Café"、"Across the Hall"。原来的名称"Friends like Us"被缩短为现在的剧名"Friends"。

  4. The six characters full names are Rachel GREen (Jennifer Aniston), Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Joey Tribbiani (Matt le Blanc), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and Ross Geller (David Schwimmer).

  【译文】六位角色的全名为Rachel Green (由Jennifer Aniston饰演),Monica Geller (由Courteney Cox饰演),Phoebe Buffay (由Lisa Kudrow饰演), Joey Tribbiani (由Matt le Blanc饰演), Chandler Bing (由Matthew Perry饰演)和Ross Geller (由David Schwimmer饰演)。

  5. According to Aniston, her famous "Rachel" hairdo was created by accident when her "friend" Chris cut her hair with a razor.

  【译文】据Aniston所说,她有名的"Rachel"头是由她的"朋友"Chris用剃刀剃头发,意外造成的。

  6. Courteney Cox, who was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, is known as CC to friends and family.

  【译文】Courteney Cox是在Alabama的Birmingham长大的,她的朋友和家人一般叫她CC(名称首字母缩写)。

  7. David Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High, the school on which the series Beverly Hills: 90210 was based.

  【译文】David Schwimmer曾在Beverly Hills高中就学,《Beverly Hills: 90210》剧集就是以这个学校为背景的。

  8. Matthew Perry appeared in Beverly Hills: 90210 earlier in his career. He said of his role: "Its kind of a blur, but I remember playing the most popular kid in school who ends up with a gun in his mouth because his Dad is so overbearing".

  【译文】Matthew Perry在他演艺事业的早期曾在《Beverly Hills: 90210》剧集里出现过。他是这样评论他的角色的:"我已经记得不是很清楚了,但我记得我饰演的是一个在学校最受欢迎的学生,由于有个太专横的父亲,最后吞枪自尽"。

  9. Perry's wit is so legendary that the scriptwriters have often incorporated his gags into the show.

  【译文】Perry的机智简直可以用"传奇"来形容。以至于剧本作者经常把他的插科打诨也写到剧集里。

  10. Cox had the honour of being the first person to say "period" on American TV, making a commercial for Tampax.

  【译文】Cox有幸成为美国电视剧里第一个说"女性生理周期"的人,此后她还为丹碧丝卫生棉做了个广告。

  11. Aniston attended the New York High School for the Performing Arts, the school that Fame was modelled on.

  【译文】Aniston曾在纽约高中学习表演艺术,Fame就是在这里选秀的。

  12. Central Perk, the café in which they all hang out, is based on the Manhattan Café in New Yorks West Village.

  【译文】剧集里,这些好朋友经常去的Central Perk咖啡屋,它的原型是纽约西部村庄里的曼哈顿咖啡屋。

  13. Cox was a cover girl for People Magazine's "50 most beautiful people in the world" issue.

  【译文】Cox曾作为"全球50位最美丽的人"上了人物杂志的封面。(yangbb补充:Jennifer和Courteney都被评为过"全球50位最美丽的人",而且还有幸挤进前10名。)

  14. She was also dubbed "TV's hottest babe" by American Playboy magazine.

  【译文】她还被美国《花花公子》杂志评为"最热门的电视宝贝"。

  15. Director Hames Burrows, responsible for many of the early episodes of Friends, also directed Taxi, Cheers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

  16. Matt le Blanc loves dogs and has a mutt called Lady that he rescued from a dog pound, and a Doberman called Shadow.

  17. Kudrow is married to a French advertising executive Michel Stern, and is hoping to have a baby soon.

  18. Schwimmer is the son of two Los Angeles lawyers. His mother, Arlene, handled Roseanne's first divorce.

  19. Le Blanc, son of a mechanic and a circuit-board maker, originally studies carpentry. "I am not a dumb guy," he says. "I just play one on TV".

  20. Famous guest stars on the show have included ER's George Clooney and Noah Wyle, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chris Isaak and Julia Roberts.

  21. Perry dated Roberts after her appearance on the show. His verdict? "She does leave toothpaste all over the sink and she's always wanting to borrow money".

  22. The whole cast huddle together before each episode to wish each other luck. This made frequent guest star Tom Selleck feel a bit left out.

  23. Perry's Dad was an actor who starred in the Old Spice aftershave ad's, his mother was Press Secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

  24. Kudrow has made appearances on several "worst dressed" lists in American magazines, but because of her characters clothes rather than her own.

  25. Perry is very fond of female vocalists. He says, "If you're a woman and in any kind of emotional duress and you sing a song about it, I will buy your album". Favourites include Shawn Colvin, the Indigo Girls and Tori Amos.

  26. When the pilot show was approved by the network, and a series comissioned, the entire cast was sent on a free trip to Las Vegas.

  27. Cox dated Batman actor Michael Keaton for five and a half years, and they are still reportedly "good friends".

  28. After graduating from speech and theatre from Chicago's Northwestern University, Schwimmer founded a theatre company, Lookinglass, with 17 classmates.

  29. Aniston's Dad was an actor, John Aniston, who starred in top US soap Days of our Lives. He divorced her mother when Aniston was nine.

  30. Kudrow gets fed up with being considered in real life to be as dippy as her on-screen character, Phoebe. "People talk slower to me, as if I were a ten year old", she reveals.

  31. Kudrow graduated from exclusive American college Vassar, where she gained a major in biology.

  32. Cox has been known to bleach her teeth.

  33. Like Ross, le Blanc has simian friends, he starred with an animatronic chimp in the baseball movie Ed.

  34. Aniston, real name Anistonopolous, used to be 30lb heavier, until her agent told her to lose weight. She gave up mayonnaise, pre-meal snacking, white bread, post-meal snacking and butter to reach her current trim size.

  35. Cox, who weighs 7st 3lbs (101lbs) and wears a British size six, is terrified of being fat. She says, "My ideal weight would be 100lbs. My whole family is shaped like pears and I'm afraid of looking like that".

  36. Aniston recently played a very unglamourous role in Ed Burn's film Shes the One. She was cast as a wife whose husband refuses to sleep with her.

  37. Courteney Cox's stepcousin is Stuart Copeland, of pop group The Police fame.

  38. Schwimmer is very keen to become a father. "I've always wanted a family", he says. "I think that's why we're here - to have children, raise them well and try to improve the quality of life for all the people who will follow".

  39. His most recent girlfriend, Natalie Imbruglia - who played Beth in Neighbours - was seen canoodling with record producer Nigel Godrich.

  40. The cast apparently get on as well in real life as they do on screen. They play poker and Scrabble together, and the girls often shop with each other. The rumour that they had made a pact never to sleep together is untrue.

  41. Le Blanc and Aniston were rumoured to have had a fling.

  42. The day he auditioned for Friends, Le Blanc had a big scab on his nose and forehead after falling down drunk on a bender the night before.

  43. When Schwimmer first met Le Blanc he was sceptical. Le Blanc was wearing leather jeans and Schwimmer thought he was "Joe cool stud" and hated him on sight.

  44. Cox originally read to play the part of Rachel.

  45. Perry has been linked to actress Tricia Fisher, daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher, who played Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss in a TV film.

  46. Le Blanc is a speed freak who competed in amateur motor-racing competitions at the age of eight. In a recent celebrity Grand Prix he ran into a wall, taking Jason Priestly's car out of the race.

  47. As a teenager, Cox was Bruce Springsteen's dancing partner in Brian de Palma's video of Dancing in the Dark.

  48. Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz was linked to both Cox and Aniston.

  49. Like his on-screen character Joey, Le Blanc has a reputation as a womaniser. He has been linked to volleyball star Gabrielle Reece, English actress Minnie Driver, porn star Jenna Jameson, Goldie Hawn's 16 year old daughter Kate Hudson and several strippers.

  50. Schwimmer complains of being hounded by women who demand that he kiss them - even when their boyfriends are there too.




51. In The Pallbearer, Schwimmers first film since joining Friends, he starred with Gwyneth Paltrow. The film did badly in the USA.

  52. When she was younger Aniston wanted to be a sculptor. At the age of 11, she had a painting in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

  53. After being picked to play Roz Doyle in Frasier, Kudrow was subsequently dropped in favour of actress Peri Gilpin before the pilot was even shot.

  54. Friends is Channel 4's top-rating comedy, regularly attracting three million viewers.

  55. Kudrow's father is one of the world's leading experts in headaches.

  56. Le Blanc was down to his last $11 when he got the part in Friends.

  57. Schwimmer claims to have been a "fat, ugly geek" in high school.

  58. Cox played the part of Michael J Fox's girlfriend Lauren in Family Ties, between 1986 and 1988.

  59. She claims to have been really in love only once. The lucky man was called Paul, hailed from Leeds, and "he made a hell of a Yorkshire pudding".

  60. Now engaged to marry Sandra Bullock's ex-fiance Tate Donovan, Aniston counts among her former loves ER's Noah Wyle, actor Jonathan Silverman, co-star Matthew Perry and Grant Heslov, from True Lies.

  61. David Schwimmer accused the handlers of his on-screen pal Marcel the monkey of being "too possessive". He claims that he was never allowed to bond with the creature.

  62. Marcel's trainer, Nerissa Pulizer, said of her charge: "If Marcel were human, she'd be Meryl Streep".

  63. The monkey was the first cast member to get a Hollywood movie role, appearing in the movie Outbreak.

  64. The daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon, Jennifer Grant, played an employee of Chandler's who ended up dating him in the first series.

  65. The Friends album includes songs from REM, Joni Mitchell and Hootie and the Blowfish, a band four of them once went to see.

  66. The theme tune, I'll be there for you by the Rembrants, has been a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

  67. Friends executive producers Marta Kuaffman and David Crane also created the adult sitcom Dream On.

  68. The characters of Ross's ex-wife and her girlfriend Susan are based on the godmothers to Kauffman's daughter.

  69. The opening footage of the cast dancing around a fountain was filmed on the Warner Brothers lot in LA at five o'clock one morning.

  70. The first thing Cox bought with her Friends money was a brand new Porsche.

  71. The occupations of the characters are as follows: Ross, palaeontologist; Monica, chef; Joey, actor/model; Phoebe, masseuse; Rachel, waitress; Chandler, data processor.

  72. Cox was the best-known member of the cast before the show. She played opposite Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and was in Cocoon: The Return.

  73. Le Blanc is currently filming Lost in Space with Gary Oldman at Shepperton Studios. He's renting a flat in London's Kensington and has been seen shopping in Budgens.

  74. Two models for American underwear company Victoria's Secret appeared in the first series. One was the dream girl Chandler gets stuck with during a blackout, the other was a girl who is convinced that Joey has VD.

  75. Perry looked at 40 houses before buying his current W-shaped ranch house with pool in LA.

  76. Aniston bought her brother Bronco car for Christmas, and he cried.

  77. Schwimmer was in the first series of NYPD Blue. He was a nerd who lived in the apartment next door to Sherry Stringfield and ended up shooting a mugger.

  78. Kudrow co-stars with Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino in a new film, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.

  79. Christina Pickles, who plays Monica's mum, also worked with Cox ten years ago on the film Masters of the Universe.

  80. Cox has said of her character: "She's obsessive, the one who has to be perfect and please everybody. I'm so similar to her it's frightening".

  81. When Jay Leno asked Aniston to touch her nose with her tongue on the Tonight show, she politely declined.

  82. Kudrow started her showbiz career at Groundlings, a local improvisational comedy school in LA.

  83. Schwimmer has a multi-million-dollar deal with top Hollywood studio Miramax to star in and direct several films.

  84. Aniston starred in an unsuccessful horror movie called Leprechaun in 1993.

  85. Her next feature is a romantic comedy, Picture Perfect.

  86. Kudrow used to date American talk show host Conan O'Brian.

  87. Le Blanc admits to havign spat in someone's food when he worked in a New York burger joint.

  88. Aniston's shampoo commerical for L'Oreal is only being shown in Europe & Aisa. She says she will never do a hair-product ad in America.

  89. Her godfather was former Kojak actor Telly Savalas.

  90. Perry has recently lost two and a half stone, while allegedly depressed and on painkillers. Despite celebrity girlfriends such as Julia Roberts, he attributes his state of mind to his failure with women.

91. Raised in Ottawa, Canada, Perry was a junior tennis ace before taking up acting. He never graduated from college. He gave  up his studies when he won a role in a sitcom called Boys will be Boys. His first movie role since joining Friends was Fools Rush In, playing a nightclub promoter.

  92. Childhood Friends of southern belle Cox were reportedly shocked at the lesbian storyline in the show.

  93. Perry's grandfather, however, loves the show. And so do all his friends.

  94. In a somewhat unlikely claim, Perry also insists that Mrs Thatcher is an avid viewer, particularly of Joey and Chandler's scenes.

  95. Neurotic about her looks, Cox worries about the thin, dry skin under her eyes, having different sized nostrils and a double chin. As if.....

  96. There's a book out called Cooking with Friends, full of comfort-food recipes for when "it hasn't been your day, your month or even your year" - a reference to the theme song.

  97. Matt le Blanc used to model Levi 501's and has appeared in TV ads for Coca-Cola and Heinz Ketchup.

  98. Le Blanc admits to being a mummys boy, and is devoted to his Italian mother, Pat Grossman. He didn't meet his father until he was eight.

  99. Cox plays a TV reporter chasing down a serial killer in horror flick Scream.

  100. The show's producers admit that the characters could never afford the rents on the apartments they live in on the show.

  101. Highlights of the third series include guest appearances by Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, and a scene in which Joey strips naked.

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