Seinfeld

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"LuAnn saw him crying and aN balled up, 1 remember she^aid, 'like a rhesus monkey.' I mean, guys don't do that. He was sitting right in the window frame of the library, right in the center of everything. . . . I went out there and saw him . . . curled up and crying, and I talked to him for a long, long time."
—a college lover on Jerîy's sensitivity
"It all had to do with the Scientology thing. It all had to do with pain—being able to withstand pain, being able not to sleep. . . . He believed that if you wi(l yourself not to have pain, you won't feel any pain . .> he was trying to get to a new level of consciousness."
—a confidant on Jerry's involvement in Scientology
"Jerry was a businessman. He had a game plan. He knew in his mi^d whereifie wanted to go. He knew eventually he would do TV under his terms. That's a businessman. He had short-, intermediate-, abd long-term goals. . . . He said, 'I vypnt to work everyplace. Every
—a booking agent on Jerry's desire to be a... Tovább

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"LuAnn saw him crying and aN balled up, 1 remember she^aid, 'like a rhesus monkey.' I mean, guys don't do that. He was sitting right in the window frame of the library, right in the center of everything. . . . I went out there and saw him . . . curled up and crying, and I talked to him for a long, long time."
—a college lover on Jerîy's sensitivity
"It all had to do with the Scientology thing. It all had to do with pain—being able to withstand pain, being able not to sleep. . . . He believed that if you wi(l yourself not to have pain, you won't feel any pain . .> he was trying to get to a new level of consciousness."
—a confidant on Jerry's involvement in Scientology
"Jerry was a businessman. He had a game plan. He knew in his mi^d whereifie wanted to go. He knew eventually he would do TV under his terms. That's a businessman. He had short-, intermediate-, abd long-term goals. . . . He said, 'I vypnt to work everyplace. Every
—a booking agent on Jerry's desire to be a "road warrior"
Because of a carefully honed publicity machine, and through savvy marketing, millions of rabid Seinfeld fans are convinced that the TV Jerry and the real-life Jerry are one and the same. But that's not the case.
From the time Jerry was a lonely, bashful, introverted kid hiding out in his blue plaid-wallpapered bedroom in his parents' modest house on Long Island in the 1960s, he had an unlikely dream: To become one of America's best-known and most popular stand-up comics ever. Home alone, he watched his comedic idols on a small, fuzzied-image black-and-white TV, or listened to them on his scratchy portable hi-fi— Abbott and Costello, Bill Cosby, among others.
Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon is the never-before-told story of how Jerry made his dream come true—of how this very ambitious, extremely driven, compulsively perfectionistic son of a Jewish sign peddler who once hustled bogus holy water from Lourdes carefully worked his way up through the knock-down-drag-out world of stand-up comedy as it began to explode in the mid-1970s, and how he went on to cocreate in the late 80s what is considered to be the most brilliant and successful must-see TV sitcom in the history of the medium.
From the start, Jerry has been extremely private about all aspects of his personal life. But now this very complex and enigmatic funnyman is revealed, sometimes as loving, compassionate, and sensitive, other times as dark and steely But always fascinating. Vissza