Month: January 1996

A First-Rate `Friends’ With Guests From High Places

Jae-Ha Kim

Julia, Jean-Claude, Chris and Brooke joined Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross and Joey in a special “Friends” Sunday night, and the high-profile guest stars proved a hilarious addition to the cast. The one-hour episode, titled “The One After the Super Bowl,” compared to the best of “Friends” – and that includes last season’s hourlong sweeps special where Monica (Courteney Cox) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) tried to one-up each other on a double date with guest stars George Clooney and Noah Wyle from “E.R.,” and the episode where all the pals made and broke a pact to spend New Year’s Eve dateless.

All-Star `Friends’: Free Agents Join Sitcom Team For Super Bowl Ratings Drive

Jae-Ha Kim

The stars of “Friends” were happy to welcome all the guests on Sunday’s celebrity-studded special episode — except one. Julia Roberts,  Jean-Claude Van Damme,  Chris Isaak and  Brooke Shields all reportedly received adoring, excited welcomes on the set of NBC’s hit sitcom. But not so for Marcel, the temperamental monkey  who hurled feces at the cast last season.

The Flying Nun Becomes A Drop-Kicking Vigilante

Jae-Ha Kim

After portraying relatively passive women in “Forrest Gump” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,” Sally Field is back on the big screen as a gun-toting mama – literally – in “Eye for an Eye.” As Karen McCann, Field plays a successful career woman, wife and mother who decides to create her own justice when the man who raped and murdered her daughter goes free on a technicality.