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Originally posted by rz1:
I wonder what Steinbrenner thought about how his character was percieved on the show.
deleted steinbrenner clipAn interview:
Seinfeld has frequently integrated its versions of real-life luminaries into its cast: Calvin Klein, John F. Kennedy Jr., Fidel Castro, the Soup Nazi, and, most notoriously, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner and catalog tycoon J. Peterman.
GEORGE STEINBRENNER
WERE YOU ASKED IF YOUR NAME COULD BE USED? Jerry Seinfeld personally called and asked. I don't really mind [the way I'm portrayed]. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you're not much of a person. It also pleases my grandchildren.
IS IT AN ACCURATE PORTRAYAL? If I'm so funny, how come more of my people at the Yankees don't laugh?
LAST YEAR YOU AGREED TO APPEAR IN THE SEASON FINALE. WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? When Julia Louis-Dreyfus came up and told me how exciting it was to be doing an episode with me, that made me feel 20 years younger — until she said that I had been a classmate of her father's at Culver Military Academy. Well, sure as hell I was, and I remember him well!
WERE YOU ANGRY WHEN YOUR SCENE WAS ULTIMATELY CUT? I guess I don't have much talent. When they said they were going to have George Costanza's fiancee die after licking the glue from wedding envelopes, I didn't have much interest in the episode anyway. I felt it was sick.
