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THAT "CHANDLER' SPINOFF DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SUCH A BAD IDEA AFTER ALL: Matthew Perry's London theater appearance in David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago could have been worse. But now that Friends is officially down to one season left, Perry shouldn't stop worrying about how to support himself post-Chandler Bing.

The play is an acerbic take on relationships that became the much tamer 1986 movie About Last Night . . . with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. Perry plays the Lowe role, a playboy-type involved in a relationship. Among his mixed reviews:

"Perry appears incapable of revealing his character's dark side, falling back instead on his usual repertoire of odd vocal inflections and exaggerated double-takes." - BBC News Online

"Perry proves that he is very good at aw-shucks smiles and circle-mouthed expressions of perplexity. He can also do quite funny things with his chin. That, unfortunately, is about the extent of his repertoire." - Daily Telegraph

"(Perry) spends a lot of (the) production being baffled, dim and so chunkily unglamorous you'd find a Stonehenge menhir sexier." - Times of London

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