Jerry Seinfeld hasn’t exactly gotten the greatest reputation this last year. A lot of it had to do with his wife Jessica possibly plagiarizing the majority of her cookbook . And then Jerry making fun of the woman she plagiarized from on national television. Even though the original author had not said a single word about Jessica Seinfeld publicly. Which resulted in a much-deserved lawsuit.
There have long been rumors that Seinfeld can be rather aloof and distant, and it appears he’s even that way to his mother. Well, his television mother. Liz Sheridan played Jerry’s TV mom on Seinfeld for nine years, yet she can’t even get his phone number or get a message through to him because of all his “people.” So instead of being able to ask for his help directly, she had to do it via a rather circuitous route: radio.
Jerry Seinfeld’s “mom” is feeling abandoned by her superstar TV son. In a chat with BlogTalkRadio airing today, Liz Sheridan, who spent nine years playing Helen Seinfeld on “Seinfeld,” says “the most important thing in the whole world” is getting a movie made of her book, “Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life with James Dean – A Love Story.” (That 2000 memoir recounts her brief engagement to Dean during the early ’50s.)
Moments later, Sheridan, 79, is asked, “If you had the ability to have dinner tonight with anyone in history, who would it be and why?” She replies, “Jerry Seinfeld. Why? I’d ask him to help me raise the money for my movie.” And when the interviewer says, “I’m sure that he would if you called him up,” Sheridan laments, “I don’t even know how to get in touch with him. He’s got so many ‘people’ in front of him, you can’t get to him. And I don’t have his phone number.”
[From the New York Post]
What an awkward situation. I’m sure Seinfeld gets hit up for money all the time, which is probably why he has so many people acting as barriers. But you’d think a co-star of nine years would at least have the guy’s number or be able to get in contact with him. You can’t blame an actress for wanting to do whatever it takes to get her movie made. The book doesn’t sound incredibly original, but it has good reviews on Amazon. Even if Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t want to be attached to the project, you’d think he’d still be reachable enough for his longtime costar to talk to him directly.
Jerry keeps himself distant from the needs of people he knows and might actually be in a position to help. Very typical of limosine liberals. They’re good at telling all of us what we should do. But knock on their door and you’ll find that nobody’s home.
Wow, Tess, way to segue from a critique of one celebrity’s personality flaws into an attack on liberals. :::slow clap::
lol @ kolby.
In Jerry’s defense re: his wife. I’d be pissed if my husband didn’t stick up for me, whether I’m in the wrong or not. Jessica’s the one in the wrong; of course he’s going to stand up for her.
Seem like this Liz lady is just trying to cash in on all of her associates she can. First James Dean, now Jerry. I’ve had very long working relationship with some people too, and I also make it very difficult for them to get ahold of me.
Not to say I don’t think Jerry is a douche.
Why doesn’t she just ask ALF to help get funding for her movie?
I really like her as an actress and as Jerry’s mom, but yeah this asking for money thing is a little much. I would get the book from the library but that’s it. But you never know, maybe that’s the weirdest thing she’s ever said and it (of course) is the only thing that’s focused on. I’m trying to start to see more than one side of things 😉
Love this, passive agressive blackmail! Good PR for Jerry to cough up and attempt to make up for all his nastiness at the expense of Missy cookbook lady last year.
If she’s allowed to get him on the phone easily, then wouldn’t any of the longtime crew, producers, etc. on that show be allowed to get him on the phone too? There were a lot of people on that show . . .