For fellow Curb Your Enthusiasm fans in the UK. Did your Skyplus fail to record the last few minutes? I happened to be watching it live and noticed that it wasn’t recording any longer.
Here’s what happened.
Larry walks off the set of the Seinfeld reunion show because he’s so appalled to see Cheryl flirting with Jason Alexander. Standing in the parking lot next to a car with tinted windows, he speaks to Jeff on his mobile and points out that since he only agreed to do the reunion as a ploy to get Cheryl back, why should he stay?
He storms off…while the camera lingers on the car. Could it be that a certain someone overheard LD’s admission?
Back in his apartment, Larry is watching the show premiere on TV. We see the final version of several scenes we saw rehearsed…scenes without Amanda, the character played by Cheryl. Larry watches, bemused. Then there’s a knock at the door. It’s Cheryl, carrying two coffees from Mocha Joe’s. Larry is delighted to see her and invites her in to watch the show, which he’s paused live.
As they both watch, Amanda appears on screen. But it’s not Cheryl playing her! Amazed, Larry listens as Cheryl admits that she resigned from the show when he left. It just wasn’t the same. Full of barely credulous hope, Larry watches the rest of the show with Cheryl. They’ve gone with the original ending in which George and Amanda get back together at the end.
Cheryl tells him it was the right ending. “They belong together,” she murmurs to Larry. He leans in and asks, “Do they?” Cheryl nods and they kiss.
But!
Yeah.
Larry!
He’s finally kissing Cheryl, but opens his eyes to peer at a new coffee ring on the wooden coffee table. He stops the smooching to point it out. Cheryl admits, sheepishly, that she can be careless with coffee cups. Larry mentions the coffee ring at Julia’s and Cheryl confesses that she might be responsible. She seems to want to get back to the kissing and touching reunion they’d just initiated.
Yet, Larry won’t let it lie. He agrees with Cheryl’s assertion that it ‘really doesn’t matter’ but then adds ominously, “Having said that…could you call Julia and tell her that it was you who damaged her table?”
Cheryl does that perfect expression of bemused, long-suffering irritation that ten years of marriage to Larry has helped her to perfect. “I’m not going to do that,” she says. Larry balks at her reaction.
And that’s that. They’re already back to squabbling, at least Larry is already back to his fussy, rude and intransigent self.
Because with or without Cheryl at his side, that’s who he is.
Month: December 2009
Yes indeed, Christmas begun in earnest for me last night with the annual Physics Department Carol service about which I have previously blogged. The music included one of my favourites, Victoria’s O Magnum Mysterium, and the Coventry Carol, which the sopranos sat out on, deferring the top part to the altos.
During the mince pie and wine party afterwards I managed to possibly find a new trumpet teacher for Little Daughter (whose previous teacher Rob Stevens of the local jazz outfit The Mad Hatters, sadly and unexpectedly died recently). And to discover why the writer and presenter of the brilliant BBC TV series The History Of Christianity looked so familiar…turns out that he too has sung in the choir for years! My pal Becs and I had a nice chat with Diarmaid McCulloch about the show, which if you haven’t watched it and you have an interest in history, watch it now on iplayer! Or wait for the BBC2 rerun.
Apparently Diarmaid’s book on Christianity has sold as many copies as ICE SHOCK! Wow! And that’s hardback at £35, thank-you-very-much, unlike my books’ bargain price entertainment of £6.99.
I emerged into snow, for the first time in 20 years. Like in Dickens! A quick change at home into suitably elegant attire and down to St Hilda’s College for our IT company’s Christmas party. A really lovely evening, and nice to see the boys in black tie. Especially our co-founder Mark who only owns one suit!
Charlie from Inlight and I chatted over the merits of various Disney rides. I mentioned to him that I wrote the first ever review of Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris.
I may have had some wine. I can’t exactly remember…
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Meet Inlight!
The Oxford-based indie/anthemy band INLIGHT have been making an advent calendar for their fans. Videos, interviews, Christmas recipes, scurrilous gossip and impromptu recordings to amuse you day by day. It’s kept me entertained on the few days this month that I’ve actually managed to get near my computer!
Here’s their acoustic version of Icarus, which features on the new Joshua Files series trailer.
Inlight’s frontman Charlie also moonlights for the IT support/networking company that I co-founded back in 1997. We’re having the company Christmas party tomorrow (Monday), a formal affair with tuxedos and fine wines. I’ll be checking in with the guys…
Meanwhile foreign editions of Joshua continue to be posted into my house, *glee*. I have now assigned all my advance copies of ZERO MOMENT, with a extra copy for surprise ONE runner-up in the Christmas 2009 ZERO MOMENT competition.
Oh and according to a Vietnamese blog article, Invisible City is on the Top 10 Bestseller List there! Can it be true?
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The Big ZERO MOMENT Signing
What an amazing few weeks.
There was the British Museum gig, which will rank as one of the highlights of my authorly life, I’m sure. Then my TV interview with LJ Rich of BBC TV’s Click – I’ll do a dedicated post about that once I’ve edited the little video I made of LJ and I, and LJ bumping into her long-lost pal Barney Harwood (of BBC Radio 4’s late, lamented go4it).
There were also a couple of lovely meetings with Team Joshua to discuss all the fun we can have telling everyone about ZERO MOMENT when it comes out in Feb 2010.
Finally a couple of days ago, members of Scholastic Children’s Book’s Team Joshua (and a few kind extras from SCB) came along to Bookmarque printers to help me sign the entire, limited edition neon-sleeved run of the UK edition of THE JOSHUA FILES: ZERO MOMENT.
That’s 4700 copies ONLY! So be sure to snap one up from Feb 1 2010!
We also had the great excitement of watching the brand new green paperback edition of ZERO MOMENT being bound. My book on the production line! Seriously cool.
Oh yes and…I have a couple of brand new copies of ZM to give away as prizes.
Hmmm. What task shall I set? Comment and suggest!
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I am a sad YouTube addict
Well it’s true. And the YouTube is doing something to my brain.
I had a chat with a really smart guy the other day, at a party, I was only a tiny bit tipsy from the rum and coke and we were kind of shouting above the music, but even so, this young graduate student, a very clever guy (yeah man, you know who you are if you’re reading this), was holding forth about Aztec Codices and books that had been written about them, and the disgrace, the understandable yet upsetting disgrace of the fact that the ancient knowledge of Mexico now mainly resides outside of Mexico.
Well, I felt the gaps in my knowledge, I did. I know a bit about Mayan stuff, not much really, but I have neglected the Aztecs. I felt I should go away right then and read about them.
But instead, I spent my free time on YouTube. You’ll be glad I did. I’ve compiled a little playlist of some of my favourite funny stuff, not too long. If you’re a keen YouTuber you’ll have seen these before.
Diary stuff…in case you aren’t a FaceBook friend or linked to me via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/mgharris).
I joined with some fellow children’s authors to compete against kids from Yrs 7&8 in the 2009 Kids Lit Quiz. The teams I was on were beaten in the London and Oxford rounds. At least the team from Wheatley Park School who beat us in Oxford went on to win the UK National finals!
I met with my agent to discuss the first 10,000 words of Quite Secret New Project but then had to change the agenda for our meeting at the last minute because a New And Possibly Ace Idea occurred to me and I didn’t want to break my concentration. It takes a lot to nurture a new idea to a certain stage.
What will I write next? Not Joshua 5 – I need to do something different in between or it’s three Joshua books in a row, which isn’t the best way for me to write. I like to refresh the palate with something different in between!
The next few weeks will be decisive.