MAUREEN CALLAHAN: We've lost our first Friend... and too heartbreakingly soon. Matthew Perry's great tragedy was that the fame he craved - which has delighted so many for so long - was the worst thing that ever happened to him
America has lost its first Friend. The death of Matthew Perry , age 54, comes as a shock - yet it also seems inevitable. 'I should be dead,' he wrote in his memoir, published one year ago this week.
