Editor's Note: Festivus falls on Dec. 23. In honor of the anti-holiday, we remember the originator of this day: Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza. Jerry Stiller gaveus so many comedic gifts to be ...

The adverb to describe their behavior, he said: Festivus, the Latin world for "festive." A few thousand years later, and thanks to a "Seinfeld" writer whose father had made Festivus a quirky ...