It Was Never Kramer
Happy 50th, Jason Alexander. He's a fine all-around actor--even a good song and dance man. But the role that made him famous was also the best reason to watch TV in the 90s: Seinfeld's George Costanza.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:12 AM
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Based upon what came later in Curb Your Enthusiasm, George seems to have been Larry David's avatar before he decided to himself his own avatar. The tag line "in your heart, you know he's you" (something like that) seems to apply to both characters, and Jason Alexander humanized it enough for a comedy adored by a mainstream audience. Larry's HBO persona is still too rough for network TV and I imagine (based on my memory of him a crazy guy with crazy hair screaming at the audience in Fridays in 1980, he needed someone to be more appealling to embody the character)
"The sea was angry that day, my friends..."
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