Larry David
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The Humane Genius of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ April 12, 2024
Ladies and gents, Curb Your Enthusiasm is finished. The final episode of its twelfth and final season aired on Sunday, and now it’s time for Larry David to gallop off into the sunset—or onto the golf course. Apparently, I’m qualified to give my thoug...
How Larry David Made Magic April 10, 2024
In the end, the bickering actually felt soothing, like falling asleep to a white-noise machine or the ambient sounds of a nature show. There they sat in the final-final scene of Curb Your Enthusiasm on Sunday night, snakes on a plane: the freshly unc...
The Last Man April 09, 2024
Larry David is the last of his kind, in a variety of ways. First and foremost, David is the last Jew. Not literally, of course—there are about 15.7 million of us scattered around the world. But he is the last of a certain type of entertainment-indust...
Larry David’s Last Stand April 05, 2024
How does David Mandel remember the reaction to the Seinfeld series finale? He’s not even sure his parents liked it.America was angry that day, my friends, and the show’s supervising producer knew why. The last episode, Mandel says, “distilled the cha...
The Cringe-Comedy Legacy of Larry David February 02, 2024
In the opening episode of the 12th and allegedly-for-realsies-this-time final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which returns Sunday night on HBO, a lady at a party gives Larry David a taste of his own medicine. Which, when I put it that way, sounds li...
Cheryl Hines on Life After Larry January 19, 2024
It’s Christmas at the Kennedys’, and a happy sort of chaos has upended the family home, nestled in the affluent L.A. enclave of Mandeville Canyon.Conor, 29, the heartthrob son once romantically linked to Taylor Swift, has emerged from the backyard sa...
