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The One About Matthew Perry review – the star of one of TV’s biggest ever shows gets a loving tribute
This intimate, warm, thoughtful three-parter about the Friends actor speaks to his friends, family and ex-girlfriends – and their adoration for him is overwhelming “God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous.” So prayed Matthew Perry when he was a young unknown actor auditioning in LA, enjoying the partying and the friendships but struggling to find work. Many have offered up such a fervent wish, of course; few have had both sides of it fulfilled in such a spectacular way as the man who became part of one of the most successful sitcoms in television history and who died after relapsing into drug addiction in 2023 at the age of just 54. The three-part, three-hour documentary – titled, perhaps inevitably, The One About Matthew Perry – charts the whole of the actor’s rise and fall. It is an exhaustive but never (quite) exhausting film. Three hours is a long time, fo
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This intimate, warm, thoughtful three-parter about the Friends actor speaks to his friends, family and ex-girlfriends – and their adoration for him is overwhelming “God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous.” So prayed Matthew Perry when he was a young unknown actor auditioning in LA, enjoying the partying and the friendships but struggling to find work. Many have offered up such a fervent wish, of course; few have had both sides of it fulfilled in such a spectacular way as the man who became part of one of the most successful sitcoms in television history and who died after relapsing into drug addiction in 2023 at the age of just 54. The three-part, three-hour documentary – titled, perhaps inevitably, The One About Matthew Perry – charts the whole of the actor’s rise and fall. It is an exhaustive but never (quite) exhausting film. Three hours is a long time, fo
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According to The Guardian’s source item, The One About Matthew Perry review – the star of one of TV’s biggest ever shows gets a loving tribute, This intimate, warm, thoughtful three-parter about the Friends actor speaks to his friends, family and ex-girlfriends – and their adoration for him is overwhelming “God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous.” So prayed Matthew Perry when he was a young unknown actor auditioning in LA, enjoying the partying and the friendships but struggling to find work. Many have offered up such a fervent wish, of course; few have had both sides of it fulfilled in such a spectacular way as the man who became part of one of the most successful sitcoms in television history and who died after relapsing into drug addiction in 2023 at the age of just 54. The three-part, three-hour documentary – titled, perhaps inevitably, The One About Matthew Perry – charts the whole of the actor’s rise and fall. It is an exhaustive but never (quite) exhausting film. Three hours is a long time, fo
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