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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jerry Seinfeld fans left in shock as star's past relationship with a teen 20 YEARS his junior resurfaces
Jerry Seinfeld is known mostly for his run in the nine-season show Seinfeld he created alongside Larry David. The show has won countless awards and still - three decades later - remains a cultural classic. But alongside Seinfeld's fame, his past also stands the test of time - something that became especially evident as fans resurfaced an old picture of the actor when he was 38 years old walking alongside his then-18-year-old girlfriend. Seinfeld, now 71, started dating Shoshanna Lonstein (now Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss) when she attended the all-girls Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan. The two were rumored to have met in Central Park. The couple dated from 1993 to 1997, during which Shoshanna even transferred from George Washington University to UCLA to be with Seinfeld. Eventually the couple broke up, and Shoshanna cited the overwhelming press coverage and the fact that she missed New York as the reason. And even though it's been about 28 years since the relationship ended, Seinfeld fans and critics still remain disturbed by the fact that a 38-year-old man would have a romantic relationship with someone in high school. While the former couple's 20-year age gap is something that was side-eyed in the 90s, it wasn't until recently that people started holding Seinfeld accountable for being involved with a teenager. On a Reddit post where an old picture of Seinfeld and Shoshanna has gone viral, fans did not hold back when expressing their disgust and disapproval. 'So gross, he really looks like a dad picking up his daughter from school,' one Redditor commented under the photo. 'Jerry Seinfeld is therefore a predatory a**hole,' another said. 'Screw him. Totally unacceptable. I don't care how much consent there was nor if she was 17 or 18 - Jerry knows damn well he was in a position of great influence and power and was using a child for his sexual interests. Pathetic loser.' While some Redditors tried to provide context about 'the time back then,' other users were quick to shut that down. 'I'm sorry but what's wrong with these men? Is it only the law that stops them from going lower?' one user shared. 'And people will be like oh this was back in the 70s/80s/90s, it was a different time. Like morals were only invented in the last ten years.' When Seinfeld was first questioned by Howard Stern about being photographed with Shoshanna, he claimed that 'there was no way' that she was that young. Coming onto the show again later, he said, 'I didn't realize she was so young. This is the only girl I ever went out with who was that young. I wasn't dating her. We just went to a restaurant, and that was it.' Later on, once it was confirmed that they were in a serious relationship, Seinfeld said, 'I am not an idiot. Shoshanna is a person, not an age. She is extremely bright. She's funny, sharp, very alert. We just get along. You can hear the click.' Neither of the two have commented on their relationship since their breakup. And while these pictures have resurfaced time and time again, Seinfeld has never addressed them.
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
The Absolutely Wild Horsepower Numbers Behind Your Next Flight
Jerry Seinfeld once quipped, "Why do we even use the term 'horsepower'? Is that to further humiliate horses? The space shuttle rockets have 20 million horsepower. Is there any point in still comparing it to the horses?" Yes, Jerry, it's because kilowatts and megawatts aren't as poetic. Gigawatts is a cool word, though, as long as you pronounce it as "jigawatts" like Doc Brown. Still, horsepower has a good ring to it, and it's just more fun to say that a Koenigsegg One:1 has 1,341 mighty steeds, or an Airbus A380 has a total of 300,000 stallions powering its gravity-defying trajectory into the sky. Look at that last number again. 300,000 horsepower at takeoff! Splitting that figure between the jet's four engines yields 75,000 horsepower each. Convert 300,000 horses back to science-speak, and you get 224 megawatts. Now, that may not be poetic, but it does have a terrifying ring to it, like we're equating jet thrust with nuclear explosion power. Maybe Christian Von Koenigsegg was on to something with the one-megawatt option. Let's see how megawatt rolls off the tongue in a sentence: With more than a megawatt of power at its disposal, Koenigsegg broke its own record by going 0-250-0 mph in 28.27 seconds in the Jesko. Ooh, okay -- maybe megawatt can stir strong emotions. Read more: These Cars Have The Best Wings Ever Car engines and jet engines work on thoroughly different principles -- unless you want to discuss the Chrysler turbine car -- so discussing the horsepower ratings of jets requires digging into technical nitty-gritty. The type of jets you see in most, if not all, commercial airliners are turbofans, though there are other jet types, such as ramjets, scramjets, turbojets, and turboprops, among others. In a turbofan, incoming air goes through the first set of fan blades and gets channeled in two directions simultaneously. These are the core compressor and a burner, where it's ignited and sent through a nozzle, as well as around the engine to create thrust like a normal propeller. The nozzle thrust and fan thrust combine to provide a complete thrust package. Since this is a car enthusiast website, you're probably at least passingly familiar with how piston engines operate -- tiny explosions push pistons to convert up-down energy to rotation energy -- so let's focus on the important point that piston engine power figures measure shaft power. The conversion process to find what a jet engine's shaft power would be is surprisingly simple. Multiply the jet's thrust, which is pounds-force (lbf), by the airspeed of the aircraft. You can either break out your TI-86 from college or go to the Calculator Academy website's Thrust to Horsepower calculator. The current most powerful jet engine in the world, GE Aerospace's GE9X, can produce 134,300 lbf. This is the engine that will be used in Boeing's 777X, which will reach an estimated top speed of 652 mph. Since the 777X uses two GE9X engines, we'll put 268,600 lbf in for thrust. Multiply 268,600 by 652, and we get an astounding 467,006 hp, or about 467 Bugatti Veyrons, plus or minus a lawnmower. Since the Boeing 777X isn't technically an airliner you can fly on yet, let's do the horsepower calculation for the current Boeing 777. The 777 can top out at 683 mph and uses a pair of GE's GE90-115B turbofan engines, which produce 115,000 lbf each. That still comes out to a healthy 418,907 hp. For metric system fans, that's 312 Megawatts. If you want larger numbers, you don't have to stick with horses. has a comparison tool where you can convert the pulling power of horses to dozens of other animals. Interestingly, the tool says that a horse can put out about 28 horsepower max, which is only slightly more than what biologists R.J. Wassersug and R.D. Stevenson estimated in 1993, which was about 24 horsepower. Sticking with that 28 hp figure, the horsepower converter tool estimates a chimpanzee has the same peak output as 0.03 horses, or a max of 0.87 hp. So, in a sentence that surely hasn't been written before, the Boeing 777 has 481,502 chimp power (cp?), which equates to 359 megawatts. There's no way you woke up this morning thinking you'd have the tools to directly convert the strength of chimps to megawatts, and yet, here you are. Think about that on your next commercial flight. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Robert Kraft Threw a Star-Studded Fourth of July Party at His Hamptons Mansion — with a Performance by Elton John (Exclusive)
New England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft threw a star-studded Fourth of July party at his lavish mansion in Bridgehampton, N.Y., an inside source tells PEOPLE The event was attended by such celebs as Jerry Seinfeld, Mike Tyson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Bon Jovi Elton John performed, and there was even a fireworks display featuring the "Tiny Dancer" singer's face, per the sourceNew England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft went all out for the Fourth of July this year, throwing a star-studded party that included a performance from none other than Sir Elton John. An inside source tells PEOPLE that the exclusive event was held at the billionaire's lavish mansion in Bridgehampton, N.Y. The source also says the party was attended by such stars as Jerry Seinfeld, Mike Tyson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Bon Jovi, and the festivities even included a fireworks display featuring John's face. The insider also reveals that John, 78, hugged Kraft, 84, along with his wife, Dana Blumberg, before the performance, noting that Blumberg wore a sparkly orange gown for the occasion. A since-deleted video from the event shared on social media showed John arriving for his performance in a golf cart decorated with lavish white feathers. He emerged on the stage in a bright yellow ensemble and custom red sunglasses. He then sat down to play on a red piano. Other shots from the video showed an ornate pool decorated with red and white roses, disco balls, and guests enjoying martinis and steak. Images of the evening shared on Instagram by drone photographer Marianne Barnett showed an aerial view of the party, revealing the many glass walls of the beachfront mansion lit up in various shades of purple, yellow and blue. This isn't the first time the 'Tiny Dancer' singer has performed for the sports mogul. John performed at Kraft's 2022 wedding, along with Ed Sheeran and Meek Mill. Kraft and Blumberg got married in front of more than 200 guests during a surprise wedding ceremony at the Hall des Lumières in New York City. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. According to Page Six, Kraft pulled off a big surprise by inviting a slew of celebrity guests to a "Kickoff and a Touchdown" party, not revealing that he and Blumberg would be tying the knot during the event. Read the original article on People
Mint
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
‘The Rehearsal' season 2: The flying comedian
Comedians mine insights. That's the job. They observe something nobody has explored in quite the same way, finding a different vantage point, a different take, a different hypothetical what-if tangent, to make a greater—or a more amusing—point. 'What's the deal with airline food?" is the line used to distil (and mimic) the observational stylings of Jerry Seinfeld, for instance. The question now is what a comedian does with that point. Mostly, a nugget of insight gets polished into an episode, a film, a concept. What if a comedian could do more? Much more. What if—as shown on The Rehearsal—the insight of a comedian could actually make a difference, even to an infinitesimal degree, to improve the dynamic within the cockpit of an airplane? 'I believe that any human quality can be learned," says Nathan Fielder, 'Or at least emulated." The Canadian comedian first broke onto the scene with Nathan For You, where he pitched and executed absurd ideas to help small business owners. It's a small, mad series I have previously described in this column as 'Borat with a business degree." Armed with an HBO budget, Fielder's ambitions get supersized in The Rehearsal (JioHotstar), where he constructs a painstakingly exact replica of a pub in order to help a person practice confessing a lie to a friend. That fascinating season gets progressively wilder, right up to rehearsing parenthood. The second season literally soars. Fielder himself, deadpan and awkward, is a personality-less cipher. He's the straight man arguing that everything can be practised till it is perfected—or till it appears perfect enough. In the second season, Fielder approaches an air safety expert who has advised multiple US presidents and tells him that, as someone obsessed with air crashes, Fielder has researched the material deeply and genuinely believes he has found a factor common to most plane crashes. A factor that the series then tries to address. This is unlike any comedy—in intent and in execution. The Rehearsal is frequently funny, taken to incredible extremes, and full of great lines, but it's seatbelted in place by earnestness and curiosity. Fielder's own commitment is absolute and astonishing, putting himself not only in mortifying situations but going to tremendous lengths: through the six episodes this season, Fielder is a diaper-clad infant suckling from the teats of a giant animatronic puppet, Fielder is a man nervously skirting where he himself may stand on the autism spectrum, and finally—most breathtakingly—he becomes a licensed airline pilot, flying a planeful of passengers in a real Boeing 737. The comedian's fundamental observation is that on board a commercial flight, the pilot and the first officer don't speak. The system draws so many lines of status, hierarchy and seniority between the two people sitting in the cockpit of a plane that the junior doesn't feel empowered to address the senior—which removes a basic check-and-balance between two qualified and experienced professionals that could potentially save a dire situation. Can the comedian, and his all-naturalistic 'Fielder method", encourage the two people at the helm of a plane to speak freely? It's a remarkable challenge, and while Fielder tackles it with all his might and insight, it's the what-if tangents that make The Rehearsal sensational. To illustrate nature and nurture, he takes a dog that has been cloned and tries to recreate the upbringing its 'parent" dog got—right down to importing truckloads of air (!!) from another state. He tries to set up a first officer on dates and tries to resolve shyness and insecurity in a different kind of high-pressure situation: a first kiss. At one point, he literally recreates famed pilot Sully Sullenberger's memoir in order to learn what made him so exemplary. Was it his love for the alt-metal band Evanescence? This sounds far-fetched, but we each contain multitudes, even in our playlists. Fielder looks at everything. The comedian finds learning to fly extremely hard. This is where the constant and copious pretending comes in handy, as he sits in a chair at home and imagines himself as a pilot who isn't afraid of anything. As he eventually passes his tests, Fielder gets overwhelmed by the fact that—after logging in all their solo hours flying single-seater aircraft—pilots are certified for commercial flight only after conquering… a simulator. 'I was in awe," Fielder gushes. 'A simulation so good, they were willing to bet every passenger's life on it. It was the ultimate rehearsal." The premise of The Rehearsal is massively seductive. The chance to practise everything—a job interview, a deposition, heartbreak, childbirth—before actually doing it offers the illusion of a second chance at life itself, a command-Z option that allows us to undo what we got wrong. Yet the very fact that we know it is a rehearsal surely must affect our behaviour during the experiment itself: without the HBO cameras and the actors and the multiple retakes, would the co-pilot attempt to kiss the girl? Maybe he would. Maybe it doesn't matter if he would as long as he thinks he can. Which is what the simulation allows. 'When you practise being other people for long enough," Fielder says, 'you can forget to be yourself." The Rehearsal, miraculously, keeps forgetting to be any one thing. It is a treatise on mental health, on hierarchical issues, on shyness in the workplace, on the importance of feedback. Just because it's a joke doesn't mean it can't say something. 'I'm going to be in the Captain's seat," Fielder says, 'so there's really nothing to be worried about." He then pauses for two beats, instantly creating the aforementioned worry. That masterful pause is The Rehearsal, unique and unpredictable and awkward, capable of leading anywhere at all. As a viewer, I genuinely believe this show has given me more empathy and compassion for pilots. Theirs is a job of impossible pressure, and we owe them this understanding. Hats off. Raja Sen is a screenwriter and critic. He has co-written Chup, a film about killing critics, and is now creating an absurd comedy series. He posts @rajasen. Also read: One nation under the mango: Why are Indians obsessed with the king of fruits?
New York Times
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Yankees' George Costanza desk nap bobblehead pre-selling for five times more than tickets to game
This week the New York Yankees announced that the bobblehead giveaway for its Seinfeld Night promotion on Aug. 21 for its game against the Boston Red Sox will be one of George Costanza sleeping under his desk. The unique giveaway, which Seinfeld fans will surely agree is perhaps the greatest bobblehead ever created, is a reference to an episode from season eight of the show titled 'The Nap.' In the episode, George, then working for the Yankees as assistant to the traveling secretary, commissioned a carpenter working for Jerry to build a custom sleep nook under his desk at Yankee Stadium. He was then caught under there by then Yankees owner George Steinbrenner's grandson. The bobblehead will only be given to the first 18,000 fans who enter the stadium that night, but pre-sales of the item have already been purchased on eBay for up to $250 while tickets to the game are still available for as little as $53. 'I love a good nap. Sometimes it's the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning.' – George Costanza Join us at @yankeestadium on Thursday, August 21 for Seinfeld Night! 1st 18,000 guests will receive a George Costanza Bobblehead 🎟️👉 — New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 26, 2025 For last season's Seinfeld Night, the Yankees gave away a bobblehead of George in a batting pose from an episode where he taught real-life Yankees Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter how to hit. While this is only the second year the Yankees will hold a Seinfeld Night, the New York Mets and its minor league affiliates have had several bobblehead giveaways tied to the show. The Brooklyn Cyclones, a High-A affiliate of the Mets, have done bobbleheads of George in his Gore-Tex coat, and pulling a golf ball out of a whale's blowhole while pretending to be a marine biologist. The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, a Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins, also gave away one of George eating so many shrimp that it prompted a call from the ocean. The character has proven popular in trading card form, too. 2021 Panini National Treasures cards featuring pieces of a Yankees jersey worn by actor Jason Alexander have sold for $1,000 or more on at least five occasions and numerous unofficial Costanza cards have been produced. The Athletic maintains full editorial independence in all our coverage. When you click or make purchases through our links, we may earn a commission.
