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...bought a controlling 51% stake in the entertainment company from General Electric in a deal worth some $30 billion. As GE's vice president of East Coast television and microwave-oven-programming, Donaghy, played by Alec Baldwin, is at a crossroads - as is NBC, once home to shows like Seinfeld and Friends, whose ratings have lagged in recent years. The network, at least, is used to it. (See the top 10 post-Saturday Night Live careers...
...Jerry Seinfeld once said, “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” In an age of 140-character updates it appears, shockingly, that many Bostonians are still thinking in long form...
...Jerry Seinfeld once said, “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” In an age of 140-character updates it appears, shockingly, that many Bostonians are still thinking in long form...
...final evidence of this, actually, is Seinfeld, or the resurrected version of it on Curb. When Larry David (playing himself) pitches Jerry Seinfeld his reunion idea (with an ulterior motive), they have a very Seinfeldian exchange about why David has "shifted" on his previous belief that reunions are pathetic: "I haven't shifted." "No, you've shifted." "No, there's no shift." "You've shifted!" "No shift...
...reunion is a distinctly HBO version of Seinfeld - very show-biz-insidery, and much more R-rated than the original ever could have been on NBC. Which shows that, while Seinfeld's glory days may never come back, funny is still funny, and successors like Curb have found ways to become more uncompromising and uncensored. And there's not, to paraphrase the masters, anything wrong with that...