‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ director writes touching obituary for his past due spouse

Director and manufacturer Robert B. Weide has paid tribute to his past due spouse, Linda Weide, in a transferring obituary commemorating his month and their love.

“Linda Weide, my remarkable wife, believed that everyone’s age was nobody’s business,” starts the obituary, which gave the impression within the Los Angeles Instances and will also be learn in complete right here. “Let’s say she was ageless and timeless. She had a kind of elegance from another era. She studied acting with Stella Adler, who told her, “My dear, you should only play queens.” She was once indisputably my queen for 28 years, 25 of which have been married.

Robert B. Weide served as supremacy director and government manufacturer for the primary 5 years of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the Emmy-winning HBO comedy starring Larry David that premiered in 2000. Linda Weide’s appearing profession integrated the position of Penelope in a Los Angeles staging of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” ― on the request of the well-known writer himself, in line with his obituary.

Linda died of a unprecedented neurological status referred to as motivated supranuclear palsy. Robert wrote that his spouse died in his palms and famous, “If you must die, try to do so in the arms of someone who loves you. It helps.”

The obituary continues to proclaim Linda’s generosity, intelligence and spirit.

“After buying side-by-side cemetery plots years ago, I asked her what she wanted her marker to say,” her husband remembers. “She replied, ‘I’m with Stupid.’ (This request will not be honored.) Oh my God, what am I supposed to do without her?”

He concluded the eulogy on a in particular poignant observe.

“They say, ‘Nothing lasts forever,’ but they didn’t know I loved her,” he wrote. “28 years was not long enough. Still, I may be the luckiest SOB who ever lived. Rest well, Bunnie. I hope we will be together again.

“For those who never knew her, I’m sorry for your loss.”