Sein Off: The Final Days of Seinfeld

Five months after the paralyzing national frenzy known as Seinfeld's Last Episode, Jerry & Co. return for one last last look. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly wandered freely about the set during the show's final weeks, snapping behind-the-scenes images to document, in his words, ''the end of an important chapter of American cultural history.'' The cast's recollections become captions, like Seinfeld's weight-of-the-world musings (''I am not a leader of men. I am a comic'') and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' wry take on arranging her kids' dinner via cell phone (''While the world fixated on this last episode, I just wanted to get some macaroni and cheese on the table''). Even though there is a group-hug photo, Sein Off: The Final Days of Seinfeld remains as pleasingly unsentimental as the ''no hugging, no learning'' sitcom ever was. B+

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