Matthew Perry. Michael Strahan. Bob Newhart. Patrick Dempsey. Homer Simpson.

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Callaroga, Shark Media Hi, and
Welcome to Entertainment Daily, a short roundup

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of the top entertainment stories in today's
news. Plenty of memories are being shared

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in the wake of the death of
Matthew Perry. The Friend's actor died in

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an apparent drowning accident at his Los
Angeles home recently, and the investigation continues

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into his cause of death, though
law enforcement sources said there was no foul

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play suspected. He was fifty four. Since then, people have been reminiscing

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about the star. Lisa Cash was
an actor who appeared on Friends during its

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fifth season in nineteen ninety nine.
During an interview with TMZ, she shared

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that while her role was as a
flight attendant, that wasn't what it was

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originally. According to Cash, she
had initially been cast as a hotel worker

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who Perry's character, Chandler, cheats
with following a fight with Monica played by

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Courtney Cox after she has lunch with
an ex Richard played by Tom Selleck.

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The scene with Chandler and Monica were
arguing in Vegas about Monica having lunch with

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Richard. Initially, in our script, Chandler goes up to the hotel room

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orders room service, and I bring
it up to him as a hotel worker.

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Cash said, we end up talking
and laughing and connecting, and Chandler

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ends up cheating on Monica with my
character. Cash said. The scene was

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rehearsed, but the day before we
were shooting in front of a live audience.

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I was told that Perry went to
the writers and said the audience would

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never forgive Chandler for cheating on Monica. He was probably right, she said,

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they would have changed, possibly the
course of the show and his character.

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Television legend Bob Newhart has nothing but
enthusiasm for and fond memories of playing

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Papa Elf to Wolf Ferrell's starry eyed
Buddy In Elf, the modern holiday classic,

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released in two thousand and three,
turns twenty years old on Tuesday.

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Without question, the part of Papa
Elf outranks by far any role I have

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ever played. Newhart ninety four shared
an email interview with CNN for the Occasion

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that proclamation is no small thing coming
from the actor who enjoyed the lead part

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in two now iconic long running television
sitcoms in the sixties and eighties, namely

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The Bob Newhart Show and new Heart, respectively. Newheart knew that Elf was

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going to enter the pantheon of timeless
and beloved holiday classics virtually from the first

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read of the script. My agent
sent me the script, and I fell

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in love with it, he said, later, adding that he told his

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wife that the movie was going to
be another miracle on thirty Fourth Street,

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where people watch it every year.
Elf is among the select few beloved Christmas

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movies set mostly in New York City, including others like Home Alone, Too,

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Lost in New York and Scrooged.
As Ferrell's buddy, the Elf travels

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from the North Pole, where he
was raised by Newhart's Papa Elf, to

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the Big Apple to meet his real
father, a curmudgeonally business executive played by

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the late James Kahn. Newhart also
explained how although he and Ferrell had great

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fun while shooting and would always break
each other up, the pair actually very

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seldom made eye contact on the set
to the filming techniques the filmmakers used to

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make the pair look different in size. The method, known as the W.

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Gill technique or forced perspective, which
was also used in movies like Lord

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of the Rings trilogy, involves placing
actors far apart to make one look smaller

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or bigger, but angled in front
of the camera to make them look closer

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together. Homer Simpson has, according
to the animated character, stopped strangling his

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son Bart, bringing to an end
a long running, an outdated gag on

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the show. It's one of the
many set pieces on the beloved animated series.

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In this recurring interaction, Homer,
the family patriarch, begins vigorously choking

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Bart after yelling why you little.
A recent episode of the show when viral

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after the character of Homer shakes the
hand of a new neighbor and is complimented

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on a strong hand. Check see
Marge strangling the boy. Paid off,

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Homer tells his wife Marge. He
then says, just kidding, I don't

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do that anymore. Times have changed. The seismic shift all gathered steam after

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a user on x posted a clip
of the scene and wrote, I just

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found out that after thirty years,
the Simpsons has finally retired their long running

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gag of Homers strangling Bart. Took
them long enough. According to The Independent,

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the last time Homer actually strangled Bart
was during season thirty one, which

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ran from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. Since debuting in nineteen eighty nine,

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The Simpsons has become the longest running
animated series on television. Viewers won't be

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starting their mornings with Michael Strahan this
week. The former football player will be

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absent from the Good Morning America desk
a little longer. Michael Strahan will not

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be with us this week as he
is dealing with some personal family matters,

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an ABC spokesperson said in a statement
obtained by E News. We appreciate everyone's

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thoughts and concerns. A source close
to the situation also told in News Michael

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is flying straighthand typically coankers GMA,
along with Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and

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Ginger z. However, the last
time the fifty one year old, who

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joined the GMA team in twenty fourteen, appeared on the Morning News was October

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twenty six. Juju Chang and Lindsey
Davis have been filling them for straight Hand

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during his absence. In addition to
the morning news show, the New York

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Giants alum has been away from his
football analyst duties. Straight Hand was not

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on the air during the November fifth
broadcast on Fox NFL Sunday, with his

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co host Kurt Menafee telling viewers Michael
Strahan isn't with us this week, dealing

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with a personal family matter. More
entertainment just a moment. People magazine has

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named actor Patrick Dempsey this year's Sexiest
Man Alive. Dempsey was revealed to be

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the new Sexiest Man Alive on Tuesday's
episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. After audience

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members asked Dempsey, whose voice and
face were concealed, questions to help narrow

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down his identity. I'm just happy
they made a decision and that it was

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me this year, Dempsey told Kimmel. Dempsey went on to joke that his

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family found it funny when they found
out about his new title, saying they

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laughed quite hard. They're like,
no, seriously, who is it.

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As for how The Gray's Anatomy actor
reacted when he first heard the news,

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he told People in an interview published
Tuesday that he was completely shocked, and

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then I started laughing, like this
is a joke, right, I've always

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been the bridesmaid, he said.
I had completely forgotten about it and never

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even contemplated being in this position.
So my ego is good. Dempsey is

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best known for playing doctor Derek Sheppard
on the long running ABC drama Grey's Anatomy.

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He stars as an Italian race driver
Piero Tarufi in the upcoming Ferrari biopic

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out in December. Dempsey takes on
the title from Chris Evans, who was

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crowned the twenty twenty two Sexiest Man
Alive. When Kimmel asked Dempsey on Tuesday

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if Evans had called him yet to
concede, Dempsey said, they've yet to

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speak. I am hoping when I
get off the stage tonight that I'll get

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a call, he said, And
they have it. Please follo us on

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Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts or
your app of choice, and if you're

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on Apple, hit those five stars. It really helps us out. I'm

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Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermott. This is Entertainment Daily.