Posted on 01/14/2007 10:33:00 AM PST by KantianBurke
gets me,” David Mandel said of his bride, Dr. Rebecca Whitney. And Mr. Mandel, an executive producer of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO, is not an easy man to get.
“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.
He and Dr. Whitney, an athletic pediatrician who grew up on a farm in western Maine, met in 1988 on the first day of their freshman year at Harvard. She immediately fell in love — with Mr. Mandel’s roommate.
It was a short-lived romance, but long enough for her to develop an appreciation of Mr. Mandel’s late-night video marathons and other quirks.
“It’s like you’re a kid, and you’re playing with someone who has tons of toys, who’s going to keep you up past your bedtime,” Dr. Whitney, 36, said of times past and present.
Toys and games Mr. Mandel excelled at, but women were another story.
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Wild stuff, there, but I wish them the best.
The gay wedding notices in the NYT are even better. You just can't make up some of that stuff.
Well, if he can get married, there is hope for me. :)
He's thirty-six?
They say there's someone for everyone ...
Though, having read through it, it's actually a fairly sweet story.
That is really a very touching story. The fact that they ended up married after all they went through together tells me that they're going to be together 'til death. Who would have thought that such divergent personalities could become so entwined?
He sounds like the basis for Steve Carrell's character in "the Forty Year Old Virgin."
Best wishes to the couple, but I doubt they'll make it five years, once she gets tired of the "lovable misanthrope", demands he ditch the comic books, start working out, etc.
Its bad enough you picked up the NY Times, even worse you got around to reading the womens' sports section.
But I'm sure they're a great couple.
She looks hot. Rich, hot, with a bright future...She's for me.
Is there anyone else out there besides me who doesn't find "Curb Your Enthusiasm" funny in the least?
Well, good luck to them. That's what you call a long courtship. I wonder if they plan to have a little Luke Skywalker or two? Or will that take another 18 years of thought?
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