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Peace Now: Jerry Stiller's Great Moments | Israel today

2020-05-11T18:30:11.385Z


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Actor Jerry Stiller passed away at the age of 92 • From a men's bra to an intense sexual appetite at the age of eighty - we collected some of the most memorable comedic moments of the beloved comedian

Every "Seinfeld" enthusiast will admit that choosing one moment to need the Jerry Stellar Being is an impossible task. True, this is an actor who plays quite similar characters and can draw a straight line between George Costanza's father in "Seinfeld" and Carrie's father in "The King of the Neighborhood," with a stop at Murray, Derek Zolander's agent. Too versatile, it's hard to deny his comedic qualities and Stiller's rare ability to portray eccentric characters, even when surrounded by comic geniuses who embrace walking tricks. "Costanza, Estelle, Cosmo Cramer and Elaine? It's already a juggling game on another level.

With the passing of one of Hollywood's oldest and most beloved comedic actors, we went back to some great moments from the glorious career of the man who taught us what hysteria, fixation, aggression and obsession are, and most importantly: His departure commanded us on December 23, the festive season.

Festivals

As for those festivals. In one of Seinfeld's most iconic episodes, we become acquainted with Frank Costanza's much-hated Christmas commercial and religious aspects. In response to crowds and the obsessive pursuit of long-lasting Christmas gifts (as a result of a brawl between him and another person who also wanted to purchase a last-minute doll left on the store shelf), Costanza is thinking of a new holiday. It was celebrated on December 23, the day before Christmas, and features a long-standing tradition of home decoration on the page (instead of fir tree) and a festive meal in which Frank promises his disappointment to his loved ones. This is one of the most memorable episodes in the history of the series, and as is usually the case with the Calt episodes - millions of "Seinfeld" fans around the world mark Festivals every year, the day before Christmas.

"I have a hotel-sized prostate and a head full of bad memories"

At one point in his career, Stiller became more well-known as George Costanza's television father, but in reality, too, in recent decades he was defined by family closeness. And when Ben - Stiller, a comic genius by himself, cast his father in the role of Derek Zolander's agent, the silly model in the blue-steel universe, it was a rare opportunity to watch father and son show off great comic chemistry on the big screen. Thus was born the character of Murray Bolstein, the man who rescues the foolish model from the world's evil and mostly himself, and does so while struggling himself with urinary problems.

In the excellent comedy called Mocking the American Modeling World, Stiller Sr. is a modeling agent who somehow also saves the situation at the end of the day through a zip drive. As you can see in the video, it's not too different from Frank Costanza's, probably not when he argues with his wife on the phone at the film's climax about the state of road traffic, plastic storage boxes and one pie that the whole world will be destroyed.

Father and son Stiller

"Zolander" was not the last time the pair of Steelers shared the big screen. In "The Heartbreak," a goofy but wonderful and underappreciated comedy from 2007, Stiller stepped into his son's cinematic father's shoes in reality. This time it is a father with a particularly strong sexual desire, in a quite sharp contrast to that of his son. He is disappointed that his son does not lead an unprotected hedonistic lifestyle with sexual encounters, and when the son finally finds a woman, Stealer Senior tries to live through his son. Among other things, the father tries to coax the son into sharing sexual experiences with him in Las Vegas, sleeping with everything that moves or just chasing women down the street while waving their underwear.

King of the "neighborhood king"

Another series in which Stiller embodies a stressed, bitter, sober father and does not approve? well yeah. Doug Haffernan and his wife Carrie (played by the wonderful Lia Rimini) live together in Queens, New York. It could have been another typical American situation comedy about a young couple trying to build his life together, had Arthur Spooner, Carrie's father and the ex-Factor not been there, turning the "King of the Neighborhood" from a favorite sitcom into a particularly delightful madness capsule.

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In the absence of a finer definition, Arthur Spooner is actually a Frank Costanza type on Crack. A bitter figure who lives in the basement of Carrie and Doug's home after accidentally burning his uninsured home. He runs a love-hate-relationship with his son-in-law, usually telling those around him with stories of varying degrees of credibility and prone to hysterical outbursts that would not have been a televised figure long ago calling for law enforcement.

The monk

And the parallels don't stop. Long before he became distraught over the life of his TV daughter, Frank Costanza was joking about the life of his son George when he moved into his home in the sixth season of "Seinfeld." The physical closeness to his father planted in George's mind the fear that a female breast would grow into old age, just like his father. Frank, on the other hand, recognizes the issue of business potential and, together with Cramer, thinks of the "monk" - a men's bra. Credit for making the episode so memorable must be given to Estelle, Gorge's mother (played by excellent Estelle Harris) and her hysterical reaction to the moment she is exposed to her husband's abuses in her absence. In general, it is hard to imagine Frank without Estelle - the kind of comic contraption that, rather than balancing her husband's craziness with a reasonable amount of logic, only adds a few more levels of madness.

And more bras

Frank's obsession with bras does not end there, and is evidently a recurring motif for the father of Costanza. For example, in the scene in which (another) George's meal with his explosive parents becomes a screaming conversation and overly dramatic reactions, all around feminine clothing items.

"Peace Now"

After nine seasons of tantrums, paranoia, screams and surrender to hysterical dealing with any kind of frustration in his life, Frank Costanza also sought some calm. In one of the last episodes of "Seinfeld," a series that has become more and more present with each passing year, the man who has been the absolute opposite of judgment is just tired of it. Whenever he feels the need to explode in anger in the face of another challenge that reality poses, Frank here recites the "Peace Now" mantra - another language coin introduced by the sitcom to popular culture.

Of course, Costanza decides to start the calm phase of his life while setting up yet another new business that is destined to fail, this time of selling computers and coping with no reason at all against giants in the field like Microsoft. As expected, the whole mantra issue doesn't last too long, and it turns out to be mostly a means of raging that will explode later. Maybe now that he is gone, wherever he is, Frank Costanza finally has peace of mind and the peace he so much wants. Peaceful now.

Source: israelhayom

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