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'Curb Your Enthusiasm': We Can't! We Can't!

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20020914
Author:Tom Shales

Let's say Franz Kafka were alive today and working in television.

"Franz Kafka were alive today and working in television."

And let's say that he's a bit on the zany side and that he is filthy stinking rich.

"That he's a bit on the wacky side and that he is filthy stinking rich."

Those conditions being met, Franz might possibly come up with a TV series along the lines of, or even exactly like, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the largely improvised and hugely hilarious comedy that returns in splendor for a new season on HBO tomorrow night at 10, right after "The Sopranos."

Unfortunately for Kafka, ...

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