Back in 1994, when Friends announced they were ending? We were all shocked. Sounds like you were not alone. Today on Larry King Now, the host asked Matt LeBlanc if it “was time to go?”
Joey said, “Who knows? I didn’t feel like we were jumping the shark.” Then why did he agree to ending the sitcom? He added, “That was the general consensus, that it was time. Let’s go. Let’s get while the getting’s good. So we ended.”
Sounds like we know now why he was the one who got the spinoff. The rest were ready to move on and he was not. They needed someone for the spinoff, so it was him. Talking about jumping the shark, Joey was really bad.
To me, the show had jumped the shark a few years earlier, but I know not many people agree with me. When were you over Friends? Or are you over it?
Angela Lansbury is 93 years young, and has two movies, The Grinch and Mary Poppins Returns, out this year. Larry King wanted to know from her on his Ora TV show if she ever plans to retire.
She told him, “No, I don’t think so. I will probably pass away, you know, with one hand on my script.” That is probably the second best way an actor can go. The first is while doing a scene. Although the former is so much more graceful like the Dame.
Can you believe she is in her 90’s because she looks at least 20 years younger than that?
When it comes to picking out roles, she said, “I never turn down a good offer.” Kind of like hiring her is good for the production. Who does not love the woman who played Jessica Fletcher?
Back in 1990, Alfonso Ribeiro guest starred on A Different World and they really liked him. So much so, they wanted to bring him back on the show.
Around that same time, he auditioned for a show with some guy who went by Fresh Prince and got that part. Now he had to choose which sitcom he wanted to be on. A blessing and a curse for any actor.
Was the decision hard for him? He told Larry King, “I made the decision to go with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cause I really believed there was something special about him and the show.”
It was a huge risk to go with a barely known rapper over an established show, but I think we can all agree he made the right choice. Imagine a different world without the Carlton dance? Let’s not because it is too sad to think about.
UPDATE: Alfonso Ribeiro revealed that he and his wife, Angela, are expecting baby #3, his fourth, next year.
Justover 3 years ago, Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey split up, and since then he has not really been attached to any other women. Even though he had a baby with another an ex-girlfriend last year.
Recently he sat down with Larry King, and the OraTV host wanted to know if he has anyone special in his life. Cannon told him, “Not at that level, no.” Then he explained, “I am not looking though. I feel like I am going to be single for the rest of my life.”
King, the man who has been married 8 times, then asked his guest if it is that bad being single. Cannon told him, “Not at all, I don’t understand why people are in a rush to tie themselves to another individual.”
The ending of Get Out made Lil Rel Howery a star, but the original one might not have had the same effect.
When Rel was on Larry King Now and he revealed what we saw at the end of the movie is not what he saw originally. What he saw, he says was impressed him, “But I was also sad.” He explained, “The first time I saw it, was the original ending. I could not even sleep that night. I called Jordan [Peele], my brother, ‘This is great, but I’m so angry.'”
What made him so angry? In the original ending Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) goes to jail and Rel’s character visits him. When Rel asks him why, Chris owns to it all and says it because he is Black in America. That ending did not sit well with the actor and others. Therefore, a month before the movie came out they reshot it to one we saw.
Did they make the right choice? Considering the Oscar nominations, I think so.
