SEINFELD BLOG

Yeah, and while you're thinking about that, think about this: the little man knows all.

Before you say anything bad about someone, you have to walk a mile in their shoes. Because then, you're a mile away....and you've got their shoes.

Or just tease them until they develop an eating disorder.

cousin jeffrey, this one's for you........

Merriam Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary says "beefcake" means "a usually photographic display of muscular male physiques; also: a man of the type featured in such display or such men in general--compare cheesecake."

Say this really fast 5 times and you get a head rush..

Jerry! The Japanese guys had sake in the
hot-tub! You gotta get 'em outta the drawers and get 'em down here, or I
don't have a focus group to sell the pilot to Japanese TV!

Annie Hall question. You've all seen this movie (a film is what it is), so noodle with this.

You know that Alvy and Rob call each other "Max" all through the movie. It probably means nothing in particular. But at one point, they're walking down the street (it's that wide shot from the other end of the block), and Alvy is in the middle of a diatribe about antisemitism. He sounds like Uncle Leo. Alvy hears somebody muttered under his breath, "Jew." Alvy asks the NBC guy if he'd eaten yet, and the guy said, "'No. Jew?' Get it? Not 'did you eat,' but 'Jew eat?' Jew--get it? Jew?" And then the blond, crew-cut record store guy tells Alvy they're having a sale on Wagner. "Wagner, Max. Wagner."

At which point, Rob tells "Max" he's paranoid, and Alvy says, "Stop calling me 'Max." Rob: "Why, Max? It's a good name for you. Max, you see conspiracies in everything...."

Here's my question. Does Alvy, in this diatribe, sound to Rob like some other "Max" to which Rob is alluding? (A fictional character? A NY intellectual?) Or is Rob's comment that "Max" is a good name for Alvy--in the midst of an antisemitism/conspiracy diatribe--simply incidental?

Anybody?

I dunno Bookman, that may be a wee bit too literary for the average stanthecaddy viewer, maybe you need to have some sex, your getting too smart...

I prefer to read Mike Lupica..

I think it's Woody Allen's non-sequitor style. Incidental, in my opinion. Funny because it really makes no sense.

Of course, you are aware...

Yes, maybe I am reading too much into it. And if they'd simply stuck to calling each other "Max" back-and-forth, without editorializing on the name, I wouldn't have thought about it at all.

But I can't get my mind around that comment of Rob's. Imagine their pet name for each other had been Pee-Wee, for no reason whatsoever. It meant nothing, and just sounded funny. But then Alvy launches into a dissertation on how he loves to masturbate in adult movie theaters, and Rob says, "Pee-Wee: thats a good name for you. You enjoy masturbating in adult theaters!" Or maybe their pet name is "Michael"--again for no reason--and Alvy mentions he likes looking at little boys' penises. "Michael: that's a good name for you....."

I mean, here's Rob pointing out Alvy's paranoid nobody-just-overcooks-a-hamburger spiel, and he adds that "Max" is a good name for him? It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

How 'bout this? I manage a circus.

I wish had those thirty-eight seconds back.

What about sports...You follow sports?

(Though I'm laughing my ass off at Bookman's "Ï manage a Circus", after all that.)

I like to get the Daily News...

I like to play a little golf. I once played with the Dalai Lama. The twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald...... Striking.

So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Tack on another twenty seconds, Denim.

You need me to draw you a map, jimmy?

Actually I don't mind the Caddyshack reference at all. And if you don't mind I'll do a little Judge Smails...

"Its easy to grin, when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat."
"But a man worth while is a man who can smile, if his shorts aren't to tight in the seat."
OK Pookie do the honors.

Caddyshack good.
Annie Hall bad.

Snapple?

Sweet Vermouth, rocks, with a twist. I like to say a prayer and drink to world peace.

Are you telling Jimmy that sweet vermouth, rocks, with a twist, is better than Pepsi?