To play George Harrison's "Within You Without You, " as Mr. Schwimmer did at Joe's Pub, isn't.
Mr Schwimmer insists that the expansion of the council's membership can still come right.
But that must surely mean some redefining of other principles, notwithstanding Mr Schwimmer's hopes to the contrary.
Since September, the council has had a new secretary-general, Walter Schwimmer, an Austrian.
"I've been wanting to help out like this for a few years, " said Schwimmer as he dished up mashed potatoes.
Mr Schwimmer treads carefully on the subject of his council's biggest member.
It has also transformed the show's close-knit cast of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer into global celebrities.
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It had been rumoured that Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer were planning to leave after the ninth series.
The English wedding of Ross, played by David Schwimmer, and Emily, played by British actress Helen Baxendale, was shot amid tight secrecy near London last month.
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The pricey L.A. neighborhood is a popular one with stars and is home to Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, as well as Kathy Bates and David Schwimmer.
Back in the States, "Friends" star David Schwimmer visited a shelter to help serve free meals to the hungry and homeless Wednesday during an annual day-before-Thanksgiving feast.
Schwimmer was recently promoted to managing director of Goldman.
"Evidently, the dropout rate is phenomenal, " Mr. Schwimmer said.
Over borscht at a restaurant on the Lower East Side a few days before the show, Dorit Chrysler and Rob Schwimmer, the society's drivers, spoke of the theremin with affection and bemusement.
Mr. Schwimmer, 58, was familiar with its sound, but he hadn't seen it played until the late 1980s, when a clip of Clara Rockmore (1911-1998), perhaps the instrument's greatest virtuoso, ran on television.
It was quite an enjoyable bump, but outside of that one moment, and the first season of "Friends" (which I actually got a kick out of until I developed a powerful urge to swat David Schwimmer across the nose with a rolled-up newspaper), I haven't thought too much about Jennifer Aniston.
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