• Catering available at all locations • Coupons are for all locations including Hercules Family Restaurant at 12 Mile & Farmington doing, and there's no place to hide. It's a little scary — or at least it should be. But, says Garlin, "Having my project out there is not frightening at allies exciting. I assume it will also be rather humbling. How lucky I am." While the film's plot is not directly autobiographical — that is, there are not incidents taken directly from Garlin's life — it emotionally repre- sents the comedian and what he has been through. His character, James, is dumped by his girlfriend and his improv troupe and loses the role he was born to play — the title character in a remake of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty to teen idol Aaron Carter. He sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meet- ing only to wind up at an ice cream parlor. There, he meets Beth (Sarah Silverman), who quickly wins his heart. On a walk through the park, they spy a young couple picnicking. That's all he wants, James says, "some- one to eat cheese with." Whether Beth is the one or not, well, you'll have to see the film, which also features appearances by Bonnie Hunt, Amy Sedaris and Dan Castellaneta. It is a particularly fertile time for Garlin, 45. In addition to this film, Curb Your Enthusiasm is in the midst of its sixth season on HBO (it airs 10 p.m. Sundays), and there are a couple of movies coming out featur- ing Garlin in supporting roles. They include The Rocker, with Rainn Wilson and Christina Applegate; Strange Wilderness, with Steve Zahn; and Trainwreck, with Sean William Scott. Garlin spent his early years in Morton Grove, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. "We celebrated the Jewish holidays',' he says, quickly adding that not all Jewish holidays were celebrated equal- ly. "We were not a big Simchas Torah house. But we certainly celebrated Purim, Chanukah, the High Holidays, Passover — and I was bar mitzvahed. We belonged to a Conservative temple. We weren't very religious, but we were religious. I'd call us 'regular.'" It was a house, says Garlin, "filled with laughter." His parents played comedy albums all the time and were a great audience for Jeff's early — attempts at humor. He remembers that they took him to see a Jimmy Durante performance, which sealed his fate. "I asked them, 'Is that a job?' And when they said,`Yes; that was it for me." When Garlin was 11, his family moved to Plantation, Fla. What Garlin discovered was that "outside of those Jewish pockets, here I am in the Deep South and for a lot of people, I'm the very first Jew they met. I tried using my humor to disarm them, but a lot of times I had to fight." It was this conflict that at least par- tially made Garlin the comedian he is today. "You have to have experienced sadness, experienced adversity and anxiety — all that leads to good corn- edy," he says. "If every day is a charm, it's hard to find humor. Comedy comes from conflict. If you don't have conflict, I don't know how you can do comedy" But Garlin is not the stereotypical jolly fat man. He's experienced a series of health-related problems, including a childhood heart defect (that was surgically corrected in his 20s) and a form of epilepsy he mistook for an anxiety disorder. He suffered a stroke four years ago. He has Type II diabe- tes, sleep apnea and attention deficit disorder (which may account for the fact that he's a terrific improviser; it's easier than memorizing lines). "When you have health problems, you face them with humor or pretty much fall apart:' he explains. "My weight has nothing to do with why I'm funny, which leads me to the conclu- sion that it's pretty ridiculous that I'm this heavy." When the topic moves on to Jewish humor, Garlin, married to casting director Marla Cahan and the father of two sons, contends that the day of the Jewish comic may be over. "We're pretty much a dying breed. We don't dominate comedy the way we used to. 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