Courteney Cox: Sad Last Days

She doesn’t remember being on Friends.

Your name is Courteney. Cooour-TEN-eeee.

Does she have early onset Alzheimer's?

Was she on drugs? How could you not remember that?

That's kinda weird. Was she doing a bunch of drugs? Because I was during the Friends era and my memories of the time are...spotty

Read the g-d article, she said when she sees re-runs she often doesn't have memories of filming specific episodes. She was on the show for 10 years, not that surprising.

Maybe she re-watched the show and saw what shite it was, so she is backing away from her involvement.

Wow. Early onset Alzheimer’s?

I remember skimming through magazine at the checkout line and she had a short interview and she sounded really vapid and an airhead. She's a typical Southern beauty, all looks, no brains. Jennifer and Lisa had more comedic chops and are more savvy.

I mean shit, I don’t remember very many specific days at work from 25 years ago either.

I wouldn't remember every day of work from 10 years at one job either so cut her some slack. The fact that she has a bad memory overall that goes back to childhood is a red flag that she suffered trauma during childhood and had never come to terms with it (and obviously doesn't remember it).

Years ago, I reconnected with a childhood friend of my sister's on FB who admitted she has very little recall of her childhood and school days. She remembers my sister and me and some family trips she came with us on but very little about her own home life. Her parents had basically checked out of parenting her when she was about 10. Courteney Cox probably didn't have an easy childhood.

She only has THREE memories? I have what I consider a pretty bad memory myself, but I'm sure I have three memories from yesterday! Courtney should get together with Marilu Henner, who says she remembers every second of her life. Maybe they could develop a new sitcom together.

Obviously she wont remember specific stuff but almost nothing? Not even big events or memories that truly stick out?

Maybe she was drinking heavily and had blackouts.

Reminds me of Frankie Muniz who doesn't remember much of Malcolm in The Middle.

I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

R14 Except Muniz has a medical reason for not remembering it.

That's OK, Courteney, I don't remember Friends either, couldn't stand it, never watched it

extended and severe anorexia/bulimia creates a decline in cognitive ability and memory function.

She looks like a different person in OP's photo. It's hard to guess which celebrity will struggle with losing their youthful beauty. I never would have guessed Cox would go so extreme with her face.

The long hair parted in the middle doesn't help. Very, very few women who aren't named Cher can pull off that style post-50.

What R18 said. That was my first thought too--having seen some Friends episodes recently, she looks really anorexic in them.

Courteney and Jennifer's 90s hairstyles are now associated with Karens and frauen.

It's not unusual for people on sitcoms to not remember every single episode, especially for a show that ran for 10 years. That's hundreds of episodes. It's like asking someone about what you did every day at school or work for a whole year. Some days will stick out more than others and some won't be as memorable.

She was probably snorting rails for lunch and topping it of with a benzo, of some sort.

Bottom line. She needs attention. Why?

[quote]“I should’ve watched all 10 seasons because when I did the reunion and was asked questions, I was like, ‘I don’t remember being there,’” she laughed. “Yeah. I don’t remember filming so many episodes.”

Not quite the "early-onset Alzheimer's" situation some of you were hoping for.

[quote] It's not unusual for people on sitcoms to not remember every single episode, especially for a show that ran for 10 years.

Lucille Ball remembered every damn second. When she was bitching me out for not making a costume change fast enough and I told her to go fuck herself, the bitch remembered it.

She was really quite a natural beauty. Not a knock out, but she was the real girl next door, out of the bunch.

I remember how she struck me when o first saw her in the Dancing in The Dark music video. She had the sweetest, most innocent looking face.

I have a feeling that’s the real her. A very sweet and even still, somewhat naive woman who hit some rough patches emotionally, along the way.

^ I met her in real life back during "Friends", she was quite striking

We don’t remember her either.

Marge, Jennifer Anniston’s personal assistant: There’s a Courteney Cox on the phone for you.

JA: Name doesn’t ring a bell. Send her to voicemail.

She was more beautiful than Jennifer Aniston. That's for sure. But she had no charisma or comedic talent despite having far more acting and film experience prior to Friends. It's easy to see why JA eclipsed her.

R13 That was Matthew Perry. He said once in an interview he was drunk while filming and couldn't remember filming seasons 8 - 10

This show ended 18 years ago, yet you'd think it ended only a few years ago with all the media obsession with it.

R34 Part of that is the feeling that they were the last big universal show that it felt like everyone watched. Even though Big Bang was a big hit, it still felt niche.

R35 Good point. Friends did feel like one of the last shows where each episode was an event. The Big Bang Theory shouldn't even compare because only lasted long because it's CBS and the standards for ratings were lower in the 2010s. Two and a Half Man and How I Met Your Mother lasted a long time for similar reasons and nobody missed it when they ended.

There are good events, bad events and boring events.

I know what category I would slot most, if not all of these shows into.

I think "Friends" is remembered with rose colored glasses. Of a kind, I am not totally sure of really. It wasn't even a strong vehicle for nostalgia.

At any rate, it really never lived up to the hype. Glad they got their coins. Kudrow should have gone on to even better things than The Comeback, but...she didn't.

I think I might be the only person of my generation (Gen X) who has never seen a complete episode of Friends and has never given a fuck about the show. I've only seen random clips and none of them were very funny to me.

I remember reading an old blind Item saying that she was a big cokehead in the 1990s and that she used to blame one of her ex-boyfriends who was a rocker for introducing her to the drug and screwing her up.

This could justify the terrible memory. Nevermind that she was married to David Arquette for twelve years and he looked quite druggy himself.

R36 I wouldn't agree that Big Bang doesn't belong in the conversation, because while lower their ratings were huge for the time period. Their highest rated season was about the same as Friends' lowest rated one. It wasn't a case of middling ratings and CBS just keeping it on life support, that has become more of an NBC thing, Big Bang continued because people watched it. I loved 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks & Rec, but none of them were huge ratings hits. The Office is considered a cultural icon but they never ranked higher than 41 in the yearly ratings.

I don't think Friends was as big with gay guys as it was with straight people back in the day. In the 90s Absolutely Fabulous was THE show that gay guys obsessed over.

Truste me R38 it took me not one or two, but about SIX episodes to learn to love Friends, I still love the show, but I was determined to watch that many episodes because I had bought the entire first season on dvd.

Friends is popular internationally. I know so many college kids from foreign countries who watched Friends to help learn English. Gen Z was binging it on Netflix. I think it's just a simplified feel-good show with pretty people and sold the American Dream and a glam NYC lifestyle. I never really found it funny or interesting but it's clearly beloved.

It was shite, really. But sure network person, let's keep that "beloved" narrative going.

Does she remember a man named David Arquette?

Wow, and those were her best days. Maybe David Arquette sucked out the memories along with her beauty.

India and The UK in particular really love Friends. The UK even made it's own version Coupling which I ironically found it much funnier than Friends.

I was obsessed with the show in its first couple of seasons, but I stopped watching before the end and don't like watching the reruns now.

I've been working in my field for 15 years, and I certainly don't remember much of it.

When you think of the shows that become nostalgia fuel, simple shows are the best. I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriett, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Andy Griffith, The Brady Bunch, Mary Tyler Moore, Happy Days, Golden Girls, Cheers, Friends, etc... none of them are extremely deep or complicated. But, they all are comfort food because you basically know that regardless of which episode you watch you have an idea of what you will get. They are like fried chicken and mashed potatoes, it might not be the best food but you know it won't be bad.

R46 I think it was the opposite. David was a disaster but he and the Arquette family were fascinating messes who stood by each other. She was uptight and weirdly cautious. Honey, none of the "Friends" were that famous that any one of them had to play the Garbo role. Also, let's be honest, she was girl next store kind of pretty, but she was no Elizabeth Taylor. Maybe that's why she's so insecure now. She wasn't really much of a muchness to start with.

The earlier point of not remembering work from 25+ years ago is totally valid. But what about her putting this out here so fans don't constantly come up to her with annoying questions about episodes? "Was it fun to have the monkey on the set?" "Were you really all mean to Tom Selleck and Kathleen Turner?"

Courteney is simply dumb.

I thought Counting Crows guy introduced them all to heroin?

She has shot more than 200 episodes of that show for ten years of her life, so of course she wasn't going to remember everything and every little detail, NO ONE WOULD R52.

But she went beyond and said that even she watches the re-runs she still cannot remember having done quite a few episodes, this means she has the memory of a butterfly indeed. As most actors who can't remember a scene or a moment on their own, would certainly remember after seeing a video of said scene.

R55 And, it isn't just her time on Friends she doesn't appear to have many long-term memories, that is concerning. I wonder if she remembers Family Ties? I imagine her short-term memory is fine, or she would have a difficult time as an actress.

Two words...Rita Hayworth.

She states that she didn't experience any childhood trauma, but that she also remembers almost nothing from her childhood.

Then how does she know whether or not something traumatic happened?

She would be someone that repressed memory therapy could probably help, but she would also need to be careful about who was treating her.

Maybe the $20 million per year residual check will jog her memory.

Drugs and disordered eating. Sad. Honestly the cast of Friends lucked out. Cox, Schwimmer and Perry have no charisma or acting ability. Matt and Lisa do have talent in my opinion but aren't stars. And while she's sometimes annoying, Jennifer had the most star power even without the Brad Pitt marriage.

@r46, "Maybe David Arquette sucked out the memories along with her beauty."

Back in the day David Arquette could suck something out of me gladly

Maybe she accidentally had a lobotomy along with all her face work.

Now she’ll never get an advance for a memoir!

^ Lol, Courteney Cox memoir, 300 blank pages

Arquette seemed constantly stoned during the press tour for the latest Scream movie. He still seems really lovable and sweet. Maybe Courtney was engaging in a little pot with him during the time and can't remember much.

I always felt like she was the weak link of the Friends cast. She didn't seem a natural at that kind of situational comedy, but she's really funny in the Scream movies.

David Arquette seems nice. He was good friends with the late Rodney Harvey.

She’s not the best actress but she’s likable, is entertaining and funny enough sometimes. I don’t mind watching her. She’s always been a bit frail, neurotic energy- probably from the difficulty with her looks and (let’s get honest) food.

[quote]She didn't seem a natural at that kind of situational comedy

I thought she was very adept at the comedy, r65.

Does she remember Alex Peak eating dumping her so he could pursue a new life in New York?

You low- and middlebrows with your FRIENDS SUCKS diatribes. Just save it. Transparently aspirational. I'm a genuine highbrow egghead and it's apparent from outer space that Friends was elegantly constructed and mathematically precise entertainment that was terrifically effective with mass audiences, beloved by them, and historically profitable for all involved.

Happy Endings was a better take on Friends than Friends ever was. Eliza Coupe's Jane could kick Monica around the kitchen while still flicking through a checklist on her iPad.

You're the reason the term hoity-toity was invented, r72.

Mathematically precise entertainment?

@r72, " I'm a genuine highbrow egghead"

Tell me you're a trailer-trash dropout without telling me you're a trailer-trash dropout

Friends was a flyover-friendly version of NYC. It's what Middle America imagined living in NYC to be like.

[quote] Friends was elegantly constructed and mathematically precise entertainment that was terrifically effective with mass audiences, beloved by them, and historically profitable for all involved.

And that does not make it good, only successful.

‘Eggheads’ are not arbiters of culture, for a good reason.

She’s not bad, it’s just that she’s compared to Jennifer and Lisa who both have something.

Maybe she doesn't remember because the show was about nothing.

[quote] Friends was elegantly constructed and mathematically precise entertainment that was terrifically effective with mass audiences, beloved by them, and historically profitable for all involved.

So basically the TV version of McDonalds?

The more anyone remembers FRIENDS the less respect I have for them.

^ It was boring and lame, I think I watched it once out of curiosity, big mistake. Joey was kind of cute

She spent so much time in Jennifer Aniston's shadow that she developed a Vitamin D deficiency.

A quick look at her bank account should refresh her memory.

You can't believe anything in the N.Y. Post.

She was fine on Friends, sometimes very funny, pretending to enjoy Rachal's terrible cooking for example. Like so many have said it's impossible to remember every moment of a job, making episodic tv is a grind, a new script every week or so, churning the the thing out, year in, year out. Saw her on Graham Norton a few weeks ago, she seemed very nervous and uncomfortable.

[quote] Saw her on Graham Norton a few weeks ago, she seemed very nervous and uncomfortable.

Graham makes everyone feel that way.

I can't even remember some of the guys I fucked 20 years ago, never mind what I did at work on any particular day.

You think Eve Plumb ever forgot one second of The Brady Bunch? She’s still moaning about it 50 years later.

They should of cast Marilu Henner she remembers every second of her life. Which actually sounds like hell to me

The $2.5 million she was paid for the reunion show seemed to help her recall her time on the show.

Ten years of shooting episodes in scenes that are out of sequence and we’re supposed to be shocked she doesn’t remember episodes or scenes? I can’t remember everything I’ve done or said on any of my jobs over the past 25 years. I’m mostly there for the pay check.

Maybe if she watched the constant reruns she'd remember

Does she remember going on stage and dancing with Bruce Springsteen?

[quote]Graham makes everyone feel that way.

Just the men who can't control their urges, dear.

R94 Wasn't Friends filmed in front of a studio audience? Those shows are usually shot in order.

I remember reading a very old interview of hers and she was asked how she stayed thin for Friends. She admitted that when she felt heavier, she stopped eating and worked out all the time. Not surprised that her memory of that time sucks. My childhood memories were also affected by hunger, though due to POVERTY not vanity.

I don’t know, R98. Why not ask Courtney?

I was at the same job for 8 years and I remember maybe two things. If I ran into any of those people now, I'd remember like two of their names and I talked to them daily and went to weekly happy hours.

Nora Ephron wrote a book about this.

Her attorney trained her to always respond “I can’t recall.”

If Marilu Henner ever gets subpoenaed or has to testify about something, she better not say: "I can't recall."

R105 I had never noticed that but it makes sense, it was known she and Brad Pitt were big potheads in the 1990s, when you smoke a lot of pot you have to clear your throat a lot.

I feel like shooting a TV show that ended almost 20 years ago can be really hard to remember because the parts people cared about, what aired, were all shot on Fridays. So I'm sure for someone with bad memories it would be hard to differentiate one Friday from the next. It's not like a normal job where you had 5 days a week of content and routine to remember. They'd do a cast reading early in the week. Maybe a rehearsal day or two, then shoot on Friday.

I wonder if Broadway stars remember their shows since it can be so repetitive that things run together unlike a play/musical's rehearsal. I'd cut her some slack.

I'm jealous these marginally talented people lucked out on a 10-season sitcom and can continually make money 18 years later milking on nostalgia and selling stories to the tabloids.

Does she remember being rescued by HE-MAN?

I can't remember anything. There's a period of five whole years i black out on. I get where courtney is coming from. The sitcom was just a job.

Don't overthink it, Courteney is just not that bright. She also came off bad on this recent Scream press tour with her, her ex husband David Arquette, and Neve Campbell. David and Neve had a blast during the press tour but Courteney was a total sourpuss the entire time. I don't know what her deal is. She's also the first one to sign onto another Scream after David and poses in Ghostface masks and does TikTok dances that she says her daughter thinks are embarrassing. I think she just enjoys fame, money, house parties with Ed Sheeran, and owning big homes for cleaning. (That she pays the maids for). David and Neve are way more down to earth than Courteney and it shows in every way possible. David's too good for her.

Courteney is just a good ol' southern girl. I used to know her brother, Richard, really well, business wise. He was the biggest, card-carrying, MAGA redneck you could ever meet

R82 yes exactly. Before USA McDonalds downgraded their ingredients to pure shit.

Friends is mathematical because almost every episode follows a math based formula based on 3.

There are 3 plots: P-A there is the main plot. P-B - a subplot. P-C a one-off joke that is barely a narrative but is, in the most efficient way possible. .

It unfolds according to formula each of the 3 plots gets 3 expositions - 1) introduction 2) development 3) conclusion/denouement

They are almost always present in the same order Intro - P A then P B then P C. Development - P A then P B then P C. Conclusion - P A then P B then P C.

A dedicated audience learned this without knowing it existed, but it gave the average viewer very deep satisfaction and comfort watching the show. The show provides dozens of dopamine hits to the view because the viewers mind is searching for the completion of each formula. It's a VERY safe show for the mind but it provides endless pleasure hits to the brain.

As the writers, and actors, got good over the early seasons, and the characters themselves became more known, they were all able to introduce playful interactions and references between the three story intrigues. Thus more pleasure to the view, picking up on all that.

It's very much like classical chamber music from the age it was after-dinner entertainment. Those compositions are highly structured and delight based on what the listener knows about such pieces, and the subtle references and innovations the composer puts into each piece.

Sorry this mostly below you, but its a very solid analysis of this entertainment and why it was INCREDIBLY successful and beloved.

It may not be your cup of tea, but it was an remains a very solid entertainment. And is STILL making money around the world and pleasing people who may not know much about American culture. It pleases because of its perfect construction.

I never liked Friends. Seinfeld guy all the way. Will & Grace too until after S6 then it went doooooooooooooownhill.

[quote] pleasing people who may not know much about American culture.

So American culture is sitting around in a coffee shop all day with your friends? And having apartments that you couldn’t possibly afford in real life (I’ll allow Monica’s story that the apartment belonged to her grandmother and is rent stabilized. But the layout of her apartment is like nothing I’ve seen in the type of building they pretend to live in.)

Too bad Lisa Kudrow was held hostage to their ED's. She looked the healthiest. At one point Cox and Aniston resembled human slinkies.

I never got into Friends but i think the criticism that the apartments, etc weren't realistic is really lame. The same is true of 99% of sitcoms; they aren't meant to be realistic.

Cox had three miscarriages during the final five years of Friends. Having to act happy during the time that new babies were happening for other characters in the show must have been hell for her. I really don't blame her much for not remembering specific scenes. I can barely remember what I went in the kitchen for sometimes

Agree about the hair. She would look so much better with a breezy bob just above her shoulders. Subtle highlights wouldn’t hurt.

She is a beautiful woman, I will give her that.

The point is: as an actress on a highly successful sitcom, her future earnings depend on her remembering. She should have kept a diary. Lucille Ball could go on a talk show and tell all about I Love Lucy. I remember seeing her in the 70s talking about the different facial expressions she used on the show and they had a name for each one.

I just watched Scream last night (which was good, I enjoyed it) and Courteney acts like she's 75 with the way she walks and carries herself. There's something wrong with her, she should be in better shape. She's only 57 for pete's sake. Maybe they'll kill off the Gale Weathers character in the next movie. Her weird body movements and awful plastic surgery was distracting.

As others have said, who could possibly remember every day of work at a job they had 25 years ago. Like another poster mentioned, I had coworkers I interacted with every single day and I can't even remember what their names were anymore.

I once worked with a man with the last name of SANTOEEEESWASSSOOOOO. The little shit would correct you if you didn't say his long name correctly. I like to think of him in hell, rearranging alphabet soup letters for all eternity.

[quote] I've been working in my field for 15 years, and I certainly don't remember much of it.

After 15 years outside, you're probably suffering from exposure. Go inside! Isn't there a farmhouse or something, r49?

[quote] They should of cast Marilu Henner

Queens are slipping. Oh, dear!

^ You're way late, doesn't count

[quote] as an actress on a highly successful sitcom, her future earnings depend on her remembering

What a strange, archaic world you live in, r127. Yes, we're all concerned for her future well-being.

I thought you had this under control, but I appear to have been mistaken, r133!

^ That's ok, we'll still try to like you

Monica was the obsessive wedding wrangler for Phoebe and Mike. I can't believe that Lisa Kudrow doesn't remember the wedding was in the snow. It was one of her more memorable episodes.

I can’t understand why she’s in the media so much lately. I find it odd. It’s not like she’s the only star who went overboard with surgery. Look at Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman, etc. I’m trying to figure out if she actually likes the spotlight or shuns it. She was naturally beautiful but didn’t have sex appeal like Jen Anniston did. Maybe they weren’t great times for her during friends, who knows. Hollyweird is a dark place for many.

I thought Courtney vowed to stop messing with her face years ago.

When was she in a bad relationship with Michael Keaton?

I wish I could forget it.

r121 in the 90s, coffee houses were the new bars.

while still listening to the smiths, smoking clove cigarettes, between sets of spoken word poetry and pimping out your self esteem for the possibility a dirty college aged kid buzzed on goldschlager might slap you around on the patio.

OP, you’re fucking hilarious. Bless you.

Back in the 90s clove cigarettes were a red flag for a pretentious douchebag.

I was goofing off on You Tube the other day like a dayum teenager or something and came across what I am linking to when I was looking up bits that Jennifer Coolidge has done. Courtney Cox has just the most naturally pretty face and I do not understand what she sees when she looks in the mirror at the age she is now. She's lovely because she has good bone structure.

Courtney Cox might remember some episodes more so than others and that's just that. It's been ages now. I've had three whole jobs in my life that I can't remember for shite! I was a teenager for two of the jobs and in my mid 20's for the other, but still. I can barely remember shite past the names of the places and I'm 48.

R140 because of Scream and she has a new show coming out.

I went to a liberal college in the 90s full of people smoking pot, clove cigarettes, and running around in Birkenstocks. We had one guy who used to go into the woods to find his mushrooms. More than one.

I can see the 90s optimism is why Friends is so popular. As unreal as it was, people just want something to escape to. The internet felt like the future that would make our lives easier. Boy how wrong that was...

^ I use the internet for a bunch of other stuff other than yelling at idiots, really ;-)

^ Angelina Jolie saw that and said, "I'll take what she has"... and did

David Schwimmer is by far the worst actor. He plays himself in everything. Ross was like a Nazi Germany-era Jewish stereotype.

In Madagascar, he played Ross as a giraffe. In Apt Pupil, he just played Ross as a gay ephebephile teacher.

[quote] He plays himself in everything. Ross was like a Nazi Germany-era Jewish stereotype.

If he is playing himself can he really be playing a stereotype? Or, is he being his authentic self?

My normal speech is a very kinda campy Southern accent, basically a combination of Barney Fife, Minnie Pearl, and Leslie Jordon. I accept it, it is just my authentic self. But, if I were to make a movie or tv show talking like I normally do, people would probably say I was playing a stereotypical Southern queen. So I would probably do it in my deeper slower bro-Southern I have learned to put on, or in a formal situation I might attempt a Southern Mid-Atlantic accent, like the late Sen. Warner. But, they wouldn't be authentic, the stereotype would be. Stereotypes tend to be true because they do represent a large portion of the group they are the stereotype for, do those people not deserve representation in the media? Mammies became a stereotype, because there were at the time a lot of black mammies, across the South. If there was only one it wouldn't have become a thing that continues to be an archetype in media to this day. But, that stereotype is now outdated, because let's face it they've been replaced by Latinos. However, if he is playing himself, obviously the stereotype persists.

I remember Schwimmer in Band of Brothers. He stuck out like a sore thumb, because. . . it was Ross in the army in WWII.

True r159. He was so miscast, playing Ross in WWII. Band of Brothers was an outstanding miniseries full of great acting, but Schwimmer was terrible. They should've cast anyone else but him.

Schwimmer at least had a nice body despite his goofy face and whiny voice.

R149 oh, weird. We art fags all smoked them in the early 80s on our Ivy campuses.

This seems like a publicity stunt. I don’t trust her

It was thirty years ago, for fuck’s sake. Meanwhile, I can’t remember what I had for breakfast.

r164 just how many braincells did you murder in your youth?

This isn't weird to me at all. I'm sure that10 year period was a total whirlwind for all involved.

[quote]That was Matthew Perry. He said once in an interview he was drunk while filming and couldn't remember filming seasons 8 - 10

Drunk?

Lisa Kudrow turned out to be the most well-adjusted cast member

and consequently, the one who has aged the best

Why are we always linking to that Trump-loving Right-wing rag the NY Post?

Lisa has also had the most interesting film career. The Opposite of Sex is a favorite of mine.

Courtney was so cute in the Bruce Springsteen video.

Her plastic surgery is awful.

Maybe she can get together with Bruce Willis.

I don't understand the thread title. She seems like she's perfectly healthy.

r169 everybody in NYC reads the NY Post. Everybody. It's an institution.

[quote]everybody in NYC reads the NY Post. Everybody.

Really R169?

You speak for "everybody in NYC"?

r175 the NY Post is ubiquitous in NY. People love to laugh at it.

What the hell’s wrong with her?

Maybe one day, if r175 ever travels to NYC, he'll unerstand.

I enjoyed the early seasons of Cougar Town (mainly because it was the same team and vibe as Scrubs). Her face was distracting in that though with all the botox.

R175 that’s absolutely true sorry. Not for the political back opinion pages obviously but for the gossip and more importantly the headlines.

Take an NYC subway sometime.

I think she is a simpleton. Who says they can’t remember things from a ten year job?

[quote][R169] everybody in NYC reads the NY Post. Everybody. It's an institution.

The NY Post was once an institution, now it's nothing more than a Reich Wing rag.

No one with a functioning brain in NYC, reads this rag. You have no idea WTF you are talking about.

She was a terrible actress who got lucky. She was awful on Family Ties, but ok in the Scream films. As far as Friends, I watched a few years then it became tedious. I started watching again after 9/11, which I remember reading started a ratings uptick because it was like comfort food for people.

Wow, I totally forgot that she was on Family Ties.

R180 Christa's face wasn't much better.

I hated the way Alex P Keaton dump Lauren Miller. It was as if he had never had any feelings for her. They were a couple for two years and then he cheated on her emotionally with the lady who played Niles second wife on Frasier.

She really was stunning when young like a Greek statue. If she had the right agent, she could have had a Kim Basinger/Demi Moore/Halle Berry career. Not saying her long TV career wasn't impressive and made her rich. But her looks definitely looked major Hollywood star to me.

r184 maybe someday when you visit NYC you'll figure it out

Did anyone see her eating hot wings in that video that was posted recently? She was really charming and not as robotic as she usually comes off in interviews. I think she would be fun to have as a friend in real life.

Courteney does come across as nicer than Jennifer Aniston to me. Jen A is a cynical social-climbing New Yorker from a troubled family who was insecure about her looks and was driven to outdo her parents. JA overall is much smarter and created a persona of a cute bubbly girl-next-door from the suburbs and fooled the public. CC is that beautiful Southern homecoming queen type who is satisfied with her life because she got everything handed to her. Not the brightest and she's not a great actress, she is just herself most of the time. CC is tolerable nowadays because Jen's "poor-me" schtick is getting old.

Jennifer Aniston became the break out star and A++ for one reason, Brad Pitt.

Courtney is just as insecure about her looks as Jennifer Aniston, let's get real

JA's attempts at being a Hollywood star in the late 90s really didn't seem to be striking a cord with stuff like Picture Perfect and Object of My Affection. She was only a TV star with nice hair and a charismatic smile like Farrah Fawcett and Heather Locklear. The Brad Pitt marriage and breakup definitely helped her continue to get film roles. JA's savviness and drive for fame is a big factor. Courteney just didn't have that hunger.

[quote] Jennifer Aniston became the break out star and A++ for one reason, Brad Pitt.

Wasn't JA already the breakout star when she coupled-up with Brad Pitt?

JA was the breakout star but it didn't seem like her Hollywood career would have played out the way it did without marrying an A-List Hollywood actor at the time. She was in a few movies but very typical 90s rom-coms that did okay and she really may have just stuck on TV. Pitt helped get her more clout and made her a tabloid fixture. After Friends ended and her marriage with Pitt ended, the public became sympathetic to her and it seemed she was just given all these roles out of charity. I think she's talented enough (not the worst nor the greatest but serviceable) and charismatic. But also very lucky.

CC probably thought that she'd be the star of friends b/c she's conventionally prettier than JA. Yet, they're friends, so that says something good about both of them.

It's like Desperately Seeking Susan (Madonna & Roseanna Arquette) or Girl, Interrupted (Angelina Jolie & Winona Ryder).

All white people look the same to me.

JA is just a better actress honestly. She made a bitchy spoiled character like Rachel charming and likable. Courteney despite her beauty, having a longer career and being somewhat known is very wooden as an actress. Her Monica character was annoying and Courteney's performance enhanced her irritability. I do think Courteney had more of the looks for an A-List Hollywood career (yeah can't act but many beautiful actresses could not) than JA.

R191, she wouldn’t remember you after a few days

Just looking at the Bruce Springsteen video, CC looks like a bad actress.

Didn’t the show end almost 20 years ago?

I vaguely remember high school and my first job so I can relate.

What’s the deal with her boyfriend? He always looks miserable with her.

Watched Scream 3 last night. The film was a bit of a dud but her scenes with Parker Posey were gold. Those two really played well off each other. Shame no one thought to cast them both in a comedic buddy movie when they were younger.

She officially has BOTOX BRAIN. It’s seeped deep into her brain cells. The price to look “young”.

R191 did she throw them up right after?

Cougar Town was oddly entertaining to me when it came out but I stopped caring when TBS brought it back. Courteney Cox and Christa Miller are both awful actresses who couldn't emote due to the botox. Sad two beautiful women who were former models destroyed their looks. They are fine in comedies and the wooden tones can work with deadpan humor. I liked Busy Phillips a lot in the show.

[quote]Watched Scream 3 last night. The film was a bit of a dud but her scenes with Parker Posey were gold. Those two really played well off each other. Shame no one thought to cast them both in a comedic buddy movie when they were younger.

Apparently they didn't get along at all during filming. Art imitating life.

Op Sad, FINAL, Days, you stupid fat whore.

R209 that's a shame. Parker was the highlight of Scream 3.

r11 this is actually a good idea and I love it. It could be like a role reversal, Marilu Henner plays a mom whose mind and memory gets sharper with age, while her daughter Courteney Cox starts going senile.

R210, get out of your mother’s basement once in awhile. It’s always been sad last days. Do they teach reading where you live?

Only on DL where one minor slip-up and you get the Sad Last Days thread. Keep doin you, FL!

Somehow she remembers to cash the checks

Courteney is not overexposed like Jennifer Aniston is who is everywhere on magazine covers talking about "her struggle and overcoming something", always in commercials, always shilling some shitty low-quality product and always sharing her opinions. At least Courteney lives a private life and doesn't need to be in the spotlight all the time. She did more TV shows too than Jennifer Aniston and can consistently work without needing to pull stunts. Jennifer Aniston seems histrionic as hell just like Jennifer Lopez who also cannot live a private life and take a break from being in the media. Jennifer doesn't even work that much anymore, she'll do a movie every other year maybe and has The Morning Show but she thinks she's A-List and needs to show off and tell everyone all about her life. Courteney just seems more realistic.

I would love to see her win an Emmy for something.

She and David Arquette were that opposites-attract couple. She's neurotic, ambitious and image-conscious while David is laid-back, lazy and nonchalant about his looks. They were more interesting a couple than Brad and Jennifer who were bland and barely looked like they were in the same room together. Also, David is supposedly hung while Brad is tiny. David is also a lot like Jennifer, from a famous family and a stoner. Maybe Courteney married David because she secretly wanted Jennifer. The lesbian rumors seem persistent.

Dang what is it about the Arquettes the trans one was supposed to be very hung as well. Now, when I watch the old patriarch on Hollywood Squares I'm starting to wonder what he was packing.

David Arquette and Lukas Haas played gay hustlers in a movie Johns. David was very cute when young and he's funny. Definitely screwed up his career. He also looks like he would have been a better pair with Jennifer Aniston, both are kooky middle-aged people who are youthful and laugh at their own jokes. Courteney never relaxes and is always high-strung, I don't get why she hated being married to a cute funny guy. I'm starting to believe the lesbian rumors about Courteney, maybe she's self-hating being Baptist from Alabama.

[Quote] Courteney never relaxes and is always high-strung, I don't get why she hated being married to a cute funny guy.

Could being an addict have something to do with it?

R218 We have seen Brad’s dick and it aint tiny more average.

[quote]Courteney is not overexposed like Jennifer Aniston is who is everywhere on magazine covers talking about "her struggle and overcoming something", always in commercials, always shilling some shitty low-quality product and always sharing her opinions. At least Courteney lives a private life and doesn't need to be in the spotlight all the time

People just find Jennifer to be more interesting and relatable. So there’s a lot of demand for interviews and commercials and magazine stories featuring her. Nobody really cares what Courtney Cox is up to.

Courteney married a guy who was 7 years younger, a known junkie and from an eccentric famous family. I think she wanted that excitement. She's an ice queen, he's a goofball. They were together for a long time by Hollywood standards and appear to still be friends.

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