MAN HANDS
January 16th, 2007Here are the highlights from Sunday’s truly great wedding announcement for David Mandel (Seinfeld writer and executive producer of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and Dr. Rebecca Whitney.
1.) “I don’t like human beings,” he said, only half in jest. “I’m bothered by real and perceived slights, and I hold grudges for billions of years.” He lives in a dark Los Angeles apartment with blackout shades covering all of the windows to protect his collection of comic books, toy robots and “Star Wars” stormtrooper helmets.
2.) Mr. Mandel’s response was to write “a ‘Seinfeld’ episode about her,” he said. “It’s the modern equivalent of a Shakespeare sonnet.” He explained that in the episode, called “Bizarro Jerry,” Jerry Seinfeld dates a woman with “man hands.” Dr. Whitney, who winces when he mentions it, chimed in, “I would like to clarify that my hands are farm hands and not man hands.”
3.) The couple had prepared personalized vows, which Rabbi James Kaufman spoke. “You are the only one I know who will never bore me,” he recited, as he stood with them beneath a white canopy surrounded by soaring marble columns.