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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 30 September 2017
Larry David’s bark, bite return in “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

By LYNN ELBER sick children, then flees to
AP Television Writer Paris. (In the new episodes,
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After he’s back in his Los Angeles
too many years away from stomping ground.)
“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” The show is so contrary that
Larry David pronounces it’s taken 17 years to make
himself satisfied with the nine seasons, whereas most
new season, which he said other shows generally toe
is just like previous ones, the line with a season a
and glad he did it. That’s year. But “Curb” executive
pretty good — no, very producer Jeff Schaffer said
good — on several fronts. there’s a bright side: David
First, it means the blunt-trau- has been taking careful
ma insults that David deliv- notes.
ered for eight seasons on Imagine the “uncomfort-
the HBO comedy are un- able situations he’s been in
diminished, as is the show’s these last six years,” Schaf-
willingness to milk any sub- fer said. “It’s been amaz-
ject for laughs, from sex to ing. ... It’s like we’re sitting in
ethnicity to illness. Second, the Fort Knox of awkward.”
he’s inclined to keep the In a new-season trailer
revival going, and without (preview episodes weren’t
such a lag. available), Larry is seen
“I would say leaning toward Larry David attends the premiere of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” at the SVA Theatre on shushing a sobbing wom-
it,” David said. “If there are Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in New York. an at a funeral, shoving a
more, it’s not going to be Associated Press department store worker
five years. ... It’s too long. Smoove, Richard Lewis and interviews not done in per- Playing Sanders was a lark, after she assaults him with
I wouldn’t want people to Bob Einstein, along with a son and, it turns out, a boon David said, but he has zero spray perfume, and order-
wait that long.” bumper crop of guests in- for the questioner. interest in giving “Curb” a ing a young couple in a
And third — but who needs cluding Elizabeth Banks, It makes it easier to appre- political infusion. “It’s nev- romantic clinch outside his
another reason? We’re Lauren Graham and Bryan ciate that when David isn’t er been the basis of the window to scram: “You’re
just happy that “Curb Your Cranston. being irascible TV Larry, show,” he said, adding, allowed to be happy, but
Enthusiasm,” a platform Turns out while we were he can be attentive and “It’s not in my wheelhouse, not in front of me.”
for David’s grievances for yearning for “Curb,” David disarmingly patient and, in my very narrow, come- David insists that “Curb
crimes against humanity felt the same way. when amused, flashes an dic wheelhouse.” Your Enthusiasm” won’t
(read: Larry David) is back “I missed everything about attractively broad smile His particular skill set has dull its edge no matter
at 10 p.m. EDT Sunday for it. Because it’s really, to be that brings to mind a cer- yielded “Seinfeld,” which what happens beyond its
the first time since 2011, trite, a lot of fun. It gives me tain politician — and not he co-created with Jerry insular world, in which only
and unaffected by time. a lot of pleasure, a lot of the one he played so well Seinfeld, and the singular funny counts. For instance,
The world of TV Larry, as laughs, and it’s the actual on “Saturday Night Live,” daring of “Curb Your En- Smoove’s Leon Black is
he’s labeled his alter ego, ideal way for me to express Bernie Sanders, but jovial thusiasm.” How daring? as brazen as ever, just like
is insulated from the cur- myself,” he said. Joe Biden. Last season, Larry accused TV Larry. “If you think be-
rent White House tenant As in express hostility? (David and Sanders actual- guest star Michael J. Fox cause of political correct-
and national tensions. All “It’s not hostility. It’s the ly are related, according to of using Fox’s Parkinson’s ness you’re going to get
the angst is petty, personal honesty that draws me PBS’ “Finding Your Roots,” as a cover for hostile acts anything different from J.B.
and courtesy of David and to it,” he said in a recent which traces their family toward Larry. Larry at- Smoove, you’d be mistak-
co-stars Cheryl Hines, Jeff FaceTime phone call. It’s genealogies in Monday’s tempts to make amends en. Or ‘Curb’ in general,”
Garlin, Susie Essman, J.B. his preferred way to handle season debut.) and promises Fox he’ll visit David said. q

CNN’s David Axelrod looks

beyond political pals for series

By DAVID BAUDER EDT. Subsequent episodes get to know people as hu-
AP Television Writer of “The Axe Files” will fea- man beings, it’s harder to
NEW YORK (AP) — David ture House Minority Leader do that.”
Axelrod makes a point of Nancy Pelosi, actor Tom In Baker’s case, it struck
not just talking to people Hanks and Condoleezza Axelrod how the future
he agrees with politically Rice, who was secretary of GOP stalwart got into
on his podcast and CNN state in George W. Bush’s politics after his wife died
series, which resumes this administration. and his concerned friend,
weekend featuring long- “I have a great respect George H.W. Bush, tried to
time GOP operative and for people who are in the get Baker to move forward
former Secretary of State arena, whether I agree by involving him in Bush’s
James Baker. with them or not,” Axelrod U.S. Senate campaign.
Their discussion, which in- said. “One of the problems Baker doesn’t attack Presi- This Jan. 19, 2012 file photo shows David Axelrod, former senior
cludes a testy exchange of our politics is that we dent Donald Trump but, as advisor to President Barack Obama, speaking during a panel
on the 1988 presidential dehumanize each other. a former White House chief discussion, “2012: The Path to the Presidency”, at the University
race and views on the Instead of just disagree- of staff, identifies with the of Chicago in Chicago. Axelrod hosts “The Axe Files” airing
NFL national anthem pro- ing, we try to destroy each difficult job that Trump’s Saturday at 7p.m. Eastern.
test, airs Saturday at 7 p.m. other. My view is that if you chief, John Kelly, faces. q Associated Press