Director and producer Robert B. Weide honored his late spouse, Linda Weide, in an emotional obituary commemorating her life and their love.
“Linda Weide, my outstanding spouse, believed all people’s age was no one’s enterprise,” begins the obituary, which appeared in The Los Angeles Instances and may be learn in full right here. “Let’s simply say she was ageless and timeless. She had a sort of magnificence from one other period. She studied appearing below Stella Adler, who informed her, ‘My expensive, you must solely play queens.’ She was definitely my Queen for 28 years, 25 married.”
Robert B. Weide was the principal director and govt producer of the primary 5 years of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the Emmy-award-winning HBO Comedy starring Larry David that premiered in 2000. Linda Weide’s appearing profession included taking part in the function of Penelope in a Los Angeles stage manufacturing of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Glad Birthday, Wanda June” ― on the request of the famend writer himself, in line with her obituary.
Linda died of a uncommon neurological situation often known as progressive supranuclear palsy. Robert wrote that his spouse died in his arms and famous, “In the event you should die, attempt to do it within the arms of somebody who loves you. It helps.”
The obituary goes on to rejoice Linda’s generosity, intelligence and wit.
“After we bought side-by-side cemetery plots years in the past, I requested her what she wished her marker to say,” her husband recalled. “She answered, ‘I’m with Silly.’ (That request won't be honored.) Oh expensive ― what am I ever alleged to do with out her?”
He concluded the eulogy on an particularly poignant observe.
“They are saying, ‘Nothing lasts without end,’ however they didn’t find out about my love for her,” he wrote. “28 years wasn’t almost lengthy sufficient. Nonetheless, I could be the luckiest SOB who ever lived. Relaxation nicely, Bunnie. I hope we’ll be collectively once more.
“For individuals who by no means knew her, I’m sorry to your loss.”
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