Director and producer Robert B. Weide honored his late wife, Linda Weide, in a moving obituary that commemorates her life and their love.
“Linda Weide, my wonderful wife, believed that everyone’s age was nobody’s business,” begins the obituary, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times and can be read in full here. “Let’s just say it was ageless and timeless. It had a kind of old-time elegance. She studied acting with Stella Adler, who told her, “My dear, you should only play queens.” She was definitely my queen for 28 years, married at 25.
Robert B. Weide served as lead director and executive producer for the first five years of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy starring Larry David that premiered in 2000. Linda Weide’s acting career has included the role of Penelope in a Los Angeles movie. stage production of Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut – at the request of the famous author herself, according to her obituary.
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Linda died of a rare neurological condition known as progressive supranuclear palsy. Robert wrote that his wife died in his arms and remarked, “If you must die, try to do it in the arms of someone who loves you. It helps.”
The obituary goes on to celebrate Linda’s generosity, intelligence and wit.
“After we bought the lots adjacent to the cemetery years ago, I asked her what her marker meant,” her husband recalled. “She replied, ‘I’m with Prost.’ (That request will be refused.) Oh dear, what should I do without her?
He ended the eulogy on a particularly poignant note.
“I say, ‘Nothing lasts forever,’ but they didn’t know about my love for her,” he wrote. “28 years were not enough. However, I might just be the luckiest SOB who ever lived. Rest well, bunny. I hope we can be together again.
“For those who never knew her, I’m sorry for your loss.”
