Jeff Greene would not be welcome in my house either
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- September
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OK, so I’m basically going to have to talk around one of the central plot points of “The Anonymous Donor”, last night’s installment of Curb Your Enthusiasm, except to say that title could be taken a lot of ways.
I’ve never heard of getting banned from someone’s house. And I’ve certainly never encountered the concept of a retaliatory ban. It was beautiful the way Susie (Mount Vernon native Susie Essman) made that logical leap. One moment she’s drenched in disgust at her marriage and the next moment she’s turned it all around into a slight by Cheryl (Cheryl Hines).
I wouldn’t invite Jeff (Jeff Garlin) over for the holidays either, to be fair. Then again, I’d think twice about taking in evacuees, at least not without laying down some ground rules: no smoking, no relatives staying for prolonged visits when they have a home. You know, the basics.
I like Leon, though. The man takes matters into his own hands. You’re wearing his friend’s jersey—or a jersey that looks like his friend’s jersey—he’s going to go after you. He might also get you beat up and get your name taken off a wing.
Larry David truly has lived all our lives. I’ve never donated a wing, but who can’t relate to wanting to give yet knowing true generosity is anonymous? Ted Danson gets it. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, gets it. (Don’t quit your day job, senator.) The only thing better than doing a good deed is doing a good deed anonymously and having all your friends find out anyway.
Ted Danson got what he had coming, by the way. Platonic taps with another man’s wife are one thing. But gossiping is just wrong.
On another topic, I utterly reject the win some/lose some business model. I’m a week overdue picking up a comforter from my dry cleaner in Shrub Oak, but I fully expect it’ll be there when I get around to picking it up. And if I’m handed a Joe Pepitone jersey in the process, I’ll bring it back.
A vintage Tom Seaver, on the other hand…
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