Best wishes to Larry! He turns 61 today (July 2).

Larry does his bit for cancer research like only Larry can.

Jeff Garlin appeared at press junket for the new Pixar film WALL-E, in which he stars. Chud.com reports Jeff had to say this about a seventh season of Curb:

The earliest we would be on the air would be a year from now, and I’m guessing a year from this fall.

Let me just tell you what Curb Your Enthusiasm is like for me and Larry. We do all first drafts - there’s no rewriting, it’s all first drafts. When we get to the set, let’s say it’s a scene where Larry and I are driving somewhere, talking about something. They’ll say ‘Speed,’ meaning the sound and cameras are ready to go, and I’ll turn to Larry and say, ‘What’s this scene about?’ He’ll say ‘I don’t remember.’ We’ll call over the AD, who has a small version of the script, and we’ll look at it and say ‘Oh, okay.’ So I won’t know until I’m filming that day. I mean, I read the outlines in advance, but I forget them by the time we go into production.

MoviesOnline have a transcript of an interview with Jeff, though he doesn’t discuss Curb.

This will be very welcome news for a lot of fans. Jeff Garlin talked to Vern Glenn from KRON 4 in late March, yet somehow the interview has eluded all of the entertainment sites and even me for a couple months.

Here is the video in full:

Jeff can’t say when we can expect season 7, but he does confirm Larry is writing it! At the time of the interview Larry was working on the second episode and was about to fly to New York to start filming with Woody Allen. He’s since finished filming so let’s hope he has continued writing. More news will follow as I learn it, but I hope this confirmation brings a smile to a lot of the fans who have been commenting about how badly they want a seventh season.

Thanks to nellac2007 the YouTube user who uploaded the video.

That’s the revelation provided by The Villager regarding Woody Allen’s current project, as well as new photos from the set revealing Michael McKean, of Spinal Tap fame, and Clifford Lee Dickson as Larry’s cast mates.

No real news to report. Here are two galleries of pics from the upcoming Woody Allen movie currently finishing up filming in New York:

TheBadAndUgly.com

OhNoTheyDidn’t

Susie will be doing a live chat with fans on Paltalk, an online video community. Stage Time tells fans:

Viewers will be able to log onto Paltalk’s video community to chat live with Essman and Pepe during the hour-long broadcast hosted by veteran comedian and film personality, Pat Cooper. This show is one of many examples of Paltalk’s socialcasting platform, which enables an online audience watching the event on Paltalk to engage in dialogue and interact one-on-one with their favorite celebrities in a way that has never before been possible.

Visit www.paltalk.com, download PaltalkScene, and proceed to Paltalk Studio A – The Pat Cooper Show.

On 9th June 2008 HBO will release the sixth season of Curb on DVD (region 2) at £24.99. A boxset of seasons 1-6 will also be released and retail for £79.99.

Source: http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=67635

Here and here.

Update 29 April: Here’s another gallery. Its from the same day on the set but has a few more pics including Woody chatting with Larry. You have to register to view more than thumbnails.

I have some photos to share. Firstly there are some pics of Larry with Evan Rachel Wood in New York where they are filming Woody Allen’s new and still untitled film in New York.

There are also some of Larry and Woody as they strolled through New York’s Chinatown district after a day of filming. For some reason there aren’t any of the two together.

No real news to report. Here are a couple of articles that may whet your appetite for Larry’s new movie.

“A Sage for Our Time” - Adam Bryant, The New York Times. (Thanks to Tommy for sending me this article).

“So Who’s the New Woody Allen” - Dre, Film.com.

Regarding that second article, I don’t believe that Woody Allen and Larry are so similar that it would be fair to label Larry the “new Woody Allen”. What the author of that article means as I understand it is that Larry is taking on the role that Woody has previously cast himself as. That is, the older man romantically involved with the much younger and beautiful girl, in this case played by Evan Rachel Wood. On a side note, I recently saw Evan Rachel Wood in King of California with Michael Douglas and she was wonderful. Also I think the author makes a great observation:

The real hook of this project is the Woody Allen-Larry David dynamic. Both are very smart comedians that should compliment each other well. David excels at awkward humor and Allen has always been, well, awkward.

New York Press reports that Susie Essman talked to Lizz Winstead on Shoot the Messenger a few days ago where she was asked, “Can we expect another season of Curb?” She confirmed what we’ve heard from Cheryl Hines saying that Larry mentioned that Season 6 will most likely be the last (as he did after season 5, and 4, etc.) However Susie joked that a recent a magazine article claiming that Larry’s ex-wife Laurie’s career is getting bigger than his might “inspire enough spite” for him to do a seventh season.
“I really don’t know what’s going to happen, though,” she said.

In other news, Reuters reports that Henry Cavill will join Larry in the cast of the untitled upcoming Woody Allen film. They’ve started shooting and the news is that larry will play the love interest of Evan Rachel Wood’s character.

 In celebration and anticipation of Larry David’s and Woody Allen’s upcoming feature film collaboration here is a clip of Larry appearing as a theatre manager in Woody’s 1989 short film, Oedipus Wrecks. It was one of three films in the New York Stories collection, along with films from Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Property of Touchstone Pictures.

Some news on Larry’s upcoming role in Woody Allen’s new film. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Larry will be co-starred by Oscar-winning British actress Emma Thompson, as well as Conleth Hill and Charles Edwards.

Larry has also posted on his rarely-updated blog on The Huffington Post. Titled, “On the Red Phone“, it is a short political piece on Hilary Clinton. Regardless of your politics, fans will hopefully enjoy Larry’s trademark sardonic wit.

Earlier in the week there was a rumour that Jerry Seinfeld was returning to TV with a new NBC sitcom, similar in style to Curb. This has since been denied by both Jerry and NBC.

Not a lot to report but don’t despair I have a video treat for all you LDFans that I will post within the next day!