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‘There’s nothing interesting about me – and no interest in me’: how Larry David’s new biography nearly didn’t happen
Source: The Guardian · Published
He point-blank refused, begged the author not to talk to people who knew him … and eventually relented. Making the first authorised biography of the Seinfeld and Curb creator was no mean feat Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David might be the most begrudgingly authorised biography ever written. The story of how author Blake J Harris convinced the comedy titan to “tolerate” him begins, of…
Key points
- He point-blank refused, begged the author not to talk to people who knew him …
- Making the first authorised biography of the Seinfeld and Curb creator was no mean feat Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David might be the most begrudgingly authorised biography ever written.
- The story of how author Blake J Harris convinced the comedy titan to “tolerate” him begins, of…
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