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Schmoopie
05-29-2009, 04:40 AM
I can't remember if I posted about this before or not. Has anyone read this book? I read it back in August and I was surprised at how sentimental it is. Really interesting reading.

I just checked this out from the library and it's all about how they filmed the final episode of "Seinfeld". There are lots of pictures and I have to admit that I got a little teary-eyed :'(when I got toward the back of the book. There are some very sweet pictures taken of Jerry, Jason, Julia and Michael of the moments after the last episode was filmed. They all looked so sad. They were hugging and crying... OMG... Probably the saddest "Seinfeld" book I've ever read.

Parts of it are hilarious and parts of it are kind of sad as well. Just the thought of Jerry breaking down broke my heart. The only pictures I saw of someone crying was Julia and you could see Jerry Stiller in the "audience" clearly crying. I think I would have died had they shown Jerry.

It's a quick and easy read, and has some really interesting info about the sets and so forth.

I wish that they would have included footage of what happened behind the scenes during the last episode on the Season 9 DVD's. I haven't watched the entire collection though, so maybe it's hidden somewhere.

The book is a definite must-buy!

Andrea

browneyes106
05-29-2009, 04:37 PM
I haven't read it. But I will definitely buy it.

Anti-Dentyte
06-18-2009, 08:42 PM
I'd love to read that book. :)

DavG
06-30-2009, 01:20 PM
Yes, I have it too - Sein-Off: Inside The Final Days of Seinfeld (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060953284/ref=s9_simp_gw_s0_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=12ZC9FWB6XHYPD41ABE5&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846).

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My wife bought it for me back in....wow....late 1998. She knew I was going through withdrawals, once Seinfeld went off TV.

I was touched by the emotional talk he gave the other actors before the finale taping. They also discussed this on the DVD special features. From those words, it is clear Seinfeld understood the phenomenon they'd created, the scope of it. And perhaps that it would never be done again.

It was the finale that made me realize that a historic thing, that heavily influenced our culture, was ending. The book only reinforced that.

Little did I know that they would be the last great practicioners of the art known as the sitcom.