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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Variety.

  1. Hank LedgerLarry David took part in the first authorized biography of his life, and Variety asks whether he regrets it.

  2. Dale BearmanFive hundred seventy-six pages. If it's nothing, it's the most thoroughly bound nothing I've ever seen.

  3. Hank LedgerAuthor Blake J. Harris started it during the pandemic. He calls himself a Larry David historian.

  4. Dale BearmanA historian. Of a man who put it in writing that there's no interest in him. That's a very short archive.

  5. Hank LedgerHe did write that, in an email to Harris in August twenty twenty.

  6. Hank LedgerRolling Stone reports he said there are far better ways to spend your time.

  7. Dale BearmanAnd Harris spent five years on it anyway.

  8. Hank LedgerMore than five years of access and interviews. Rolling Stone says David gave in with the words, Oh Jesus.

  9. Dale BearmanI've never seen Seinfeld, you know. I've heard it's about nothing, and I assumed that was a warning.

  10. Hank LedgerReviews quoted by Book Marks say it could have used a stern edit. One says it skips his romantic history.

  11. Dale BearmanFive years of access, and the man who said there was nothing to write about got every page of it.

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