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...catchphrase-minting cultural power--so much so that mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani made a cameo in an episode about bogus nonfat frozen yogurt. These 46 episodes include "The Puffy Shirt" (in which Jerry agrees to wear a flouncy pirate top on the Today show), and introduced J. Peterman (John O'Hurley, before he danced with the stars) and the concept of "regifting." Seinfeld's best and darkest seasons were just ahead, but no one is likely to regift this set, all the same...
...first, the title. The dancing is done by professional hoofers partnered with hastily prepped celebrities, some of whom would be just about qualified to do the Electric Slide at a Bar Mitzvah. The stars include a Rod Stewart ex (Rachel Hunter), a soap actress (Kelly Monaco) and that J. Peterman guy from Seinfeld (John O'Hurley). The only part of Dancing with the Stars that should not be set in air quotes is "with...
...season's least likely Peabody Award candidate, it's a good-natured celebration of American cheese--wrestling, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Girls Gone Wild videos--that pits Dwayne and Denny against their stepdad, a self-important, wealthy game-show host (John O'Hurley, who was the self-important, wealthy J. Peterman on Seinfeld). Co-creator Josh Weinstein says the clash is meant to be a throwback to the populist comedy of the Clampetts and Mr. Drysdale--as well as The Simpsons, on which he and co-creator Bill Oakley were producers and writers. "Like the Beverly Hillbillies or Homer," he says...
Last week while I was on the Kramer Reality Tour (which started before the Peterman Reality tour spoofed it on Seinfeld), I came to know what it means to be a Real New Yorker. The tour is Kenny’s latest venture to find some exciting way to pass through life extraordinarily. When disco was king, he sold electronic jewelry; he has also managed a British reggae band, appeared on Judge Judy, earned not much more than cab fare as a New York comedian, and ran for mayor on a platform of legalizing marijuana. (He says his loss...
Whether or not such grand schemes materialize, Peterman has turned the failure of his previous company into a lucrative career move. He has written a book about his rise and fall, Peterman Rides Again (Prentice Hall Press; $25), and lectured M.B.A. students at N.Y.U.'s Stern School of Business, and he continues to speak to business groups and university students. "I tell them that failure is part of the learning process," Peterman says. "If you're afraid to take a risk and make a mistake, you'll never create anything. It was only F. Scott Fitzgerald who said there were...