The Eighteen-Year Itch
Tad Friend on Garry Shandling, of “The Larry Sanders Show,” and the dangers of mixing business with friendship.
"Hollywood is too small a town for two people to have lunch in by themselves. Around every A-list table for two hovers a host of shades, unseen mentors and advisers who whisper in ears, sift for conflicts of interest, register minute shifts in the balance of power."