'Yelling at people doesn't usually elicit their love. Unless the person doing the screaming is Jerry Stiller,' DeanObeidallah writes for CNNOpinion
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Yelling at people doesn't usually elicit their love. Unless the person doing the screaming is Jerry Stiller. The 92-year-old Stiller's show-business career spanned more than half a century -- from the 1960s as part of a comedy team with his wife Anne Meara to acting in the 2016 film,"Zoolander 2," directed and co-written by his son Ben. But it was Stiller's cantankerous and ever-shouting Frank Costanza on"Seinfeld" that made him beloved.
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