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.
