Journalist Alia Abdel Raouf spoke in an episode, today, Wednesday, of “I Have Other Sayings” on “Nojoum FM,” with journalist Ibrahim Issa, about the artist Matthew Perry, who recently passed away from our world and is the hero of the famous series “Friends,” using the book “The Memoirs of Matthew Perry.”
She explained that we in the Arab world and Egypt did not feel alienated while watching the series because they relied on globalization and the spread of American culture, unlike other cultures such as French, for example.
She pointed out that the popularity of the series passed from the generation that witnessed its first showing to subsequent generations, and this indicates that it relied on comedy that is not only related to its time, but continues for subsequent times, and this began from the stage of writing the work, which relied on the comedy itself, even in the sad scenes, the comedy was is in the background.
Journalist Alia Abdel Raouf said about Matthew Perry: “The funniest person with a sense of humor was that his life was a collection of pains, and this appeared in his memoirs, which he tried to end with a happy ending, but the news of his death changed even that ending that he tried to change to happiness.”
She continued: “The first to shine as a star among the six heroes of the series was David Schwimmer in the role of Ruth, and in the following seasons he could set the compensation he wanted, but he agreed with his colleagues to agree on one equal compensation for them for all seasons, and this appeared in each of them’s conversations after that. this situation”.
She also confirmed that the heroes of the work felt that they had not succeeded after the series “Friends” with success equal to the famous work at a time when the series was still generating annual profits for them.
“Unaccompanied minor”
Writer Alia Abdel Raouf talked about the late artist’s memoirs, saying: “The book’s first name was (The Unaccompanied Minor), and it talks about his father, who was an American actor, and his mother, a journalist, and the story of their meeting in the year 68, and his mother was Miss University at the time, and they got married, and then a separation occurred between them.” He was 9 months old, and his father disappeared for a period of his life, then appeared strongly when he was 15 years old. He supported him and put him in private schools, and he lived for a while with his grandfather in Canada. At that time, children were allowed to travel alone, and he used to write a sign on the child’s chest that he was an “unaccompanied minor.” He was afraid of planes and turbulence, and this affected him in the future. He blamed his family for these moments because they left him to travel alone, and this affected the state of sadness and loneliness that he experienced, and all of this led him to the idea of addiction.
She added: “Matthew Perry also tells in his memoirs, which he wrote himself, that the first medication he took in his life was when he was two months old, when his mother gave birth to him. She was 21 years old, and he was a child who would not stop screaming and crying, and his family took him to a great doctor and prescribed a sedative for them, which was common practice.” At the time, it was not reprehensible, and he published a picture that his father took of him before and after he took the tranquilizer, and this matter caused sleep disorders for him throughout his life.
