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...After the release of Bee Movie, Seinfeld plans to return to being a stand-up comic and quasi-stay-at-home dad. Home for Seinfeld (who made a reported $225 million for Seinfeld's syndication alone and appears almost annually on Forbes' list of richest celebrities) is an apartment overlooking Central Park. It's also an estate in the Hamptons, on Long Island, that he purchased for $32 million from Billy Joel in 2000 and a new spread in Telluride, Colo., not far from Tom Cruise's place. He keeps his collection of Porsches (he won't say how many...
...career is really going to take off,'" says Seinfeld. "In some way the child will sometimes hold back so as not to surpass the father while he's alive. Maybe it's the mortality thing. I just started driving a little harder, working a little harder." Seinfeld says his dad was funny, and he still laughs at his jokes. "There was one he liked to tell about a guy who falls out of a window," recalls Seinfeld, smiling. "He's lying there on the street. This other fella runs up to him and says, 'What happened?' The guy says...
...only child of Robert and Beverly Galanter, he says he grew up in idyllic circumstances in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, N.J. He speaks proudly of the work his father and paternal grandparents did in the area. "My dad's mother was the first female optometrist in the U.S.," he says. "My dad worked for his mom as an optometrist. He's still working...
...Your dad was married eight times. How do you explain that...
...either sexless marriage or shipping the runts off to CBS reality camp. But beyond the cheap shock, I suspect Kid Nation has touched on a real anxiety in the era of extreme parenting: the horror, and yet the appeal, of children having lives separate from Mom and Dad's. Because even to a good parent, sometimes "kid nation" can sound like America by another name...