Serenity, though crowded, at Giverny in June
posted by Becky Willis Motew @ 9:43 AM
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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Thanks - I needed a little serenity tonight.
Although the word always brings to mind an image of Jerry Stiller chanting "serenity now" on Seinfeld...
HA, I didn't know that That's a good chant.
Truthfully, by the time we left the Monet house and grounds, it was getting too crowded to even enjoy.
I don't really remember the episode, but he was saying it in an amusingly contradictory way -- ahh, here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5513mXmQbw4
Finding serenity in a crowd is a tough one, at least visually. I suppose plugging in your headphones and narrowing your world to the screen in your hand is a modern way to attempt it, though if you're playing Angry Birds that's not so soothing either!
Watching that kind of makes you sick that the show isn't on any more. I watched a Utube bit the other night randomly of Jim Carrey doing an impression of Broderick Crawford and had that same sense of loss. [what am I saying?]
Can't say I know Broderick, but I do remember watching Jim Carrey before he did movies, on a sketch comedy show called "In Living Color" where he was a standout.
One of the guys behind the Seinfeld show is Larry David, and he has another show on HBO now called "Curb Your Enthusiasm" that has some of the same storytelling methods of Seinfeld, along with a similar setting where he plays himself with actors playing people in his live, but it's all much more extreme -- the combination of being on unfiltered HBO in a less gentle time makes some of the topics startling (but really funny stuff often is, I think). I have to be in the right mood for it -- he gets himself so tangled up in some shows I can't take it!
Other celebs sometimes come on the show as themselves but not really themselves, and indeed in their 5th or 6th season they managed to kind of do a Seinfeld reunion within the show, except that it was really a show about doing a reunion, rather than the reunion episode itself, which they didn't actually show.
I like Curb Your Enthusiasm, although I've only seen it a few times. I saw one where he can't get the plastic off his new gps system and ends up stomping it on the floor. Very funny,
Ah, so you know Curb -- maybe you mentioned the GPS episode before? I still haven't seen that one, but I'm sure someone told me about it...
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