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Jerry Oppenheimer |
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Biography & Autobiography · Humor · Performing Arts |
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Format: Hardcover, 398
Publisher: Harpercollins (July 01, 2002)
Measurements: 9.25"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.65 lbs.
ISBN: 9780060188726 |
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<h4 align="center">If you think you know Jerry Seinfeld from his show, think again.</h4><p>Because of a carefully honed publicity machine, and through savvy marketing, millions of rabid Seinfeld fans are convinced that the TV Jerry and the real-life Jerry are one and the same. But that's not the case.</p><p>From the time Jerry was a lonely, bashful, introverted kid hiding out in his blue plaid-wallpapered bedroom in his parents' modest house on Long Island in the 1960s, he had an unlikely dream: To become one of America's best-known and most popular standup comics ever. Home alone, he watched his comedic idols on a small, fuzzied-image black-and-white TV, or listened to them on his scratchy portable hi-fi -- Abbott and Costello, Bill Cosby, among others.</p><p><i>Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon</i> is the never-before-told story of how Jerry made his dream come true -- of how this very ambitious, extremely driven, compulsively perfectionistic son of a Jewish sign peddler who once hustled bogus holy |
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