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Carl Reiner (1922-2020) was an actor and writer who created and costarred in the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, inspired by his time as a cast member and writer (along with Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen among others) for Sid Caesar’s sketch comedy programs Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour from 1950-1957.
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- My Anecdotal Life. By: Carl Reiner. Narrated by: Carl Reiner. Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins. Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment & Celebrities.
- More than once, Carl Reiner has had friends say, 'Hey, Reiner, you ought to write those things down.' And at eighty, he finally has. In this funny and engaging memoir, one of the best raconteurs on the planet recalls his life in show business in short comic takes. Reiner tells of how, after answerin.
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My Anecdotal Life Carl Reiner Documentary
Reiner (Enter Laughing), creator and co-star of the Dick Van Dyke Show as well as the director of many film comedies, has collected here some memories of his long career. In short takes, he revisits his first jobs running entertainment programs at senior camps, his first breaks into show business, his favorite dinner parties, his most memorable faux pas and his great times with other grand old men of comedy, from George Jessel to Mel Brooks. He intersperses career tales with family vignettes: short but touching accounts of his father's inventions, his mother's illiteracy and his brother's final illness. While most of Reiner's ventures were, by his account, smash successes, he includes a few mishaps—like the time he arrived a day early for his high school's Hall of Fame ceremony—in keeping with his epigraph, 'Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be the fool but you're the fool in charge.' Hearing a story about something that people found funny, however, is not the same as hearing a funny story. Reiner, who's now 81, spends most of this book patting himself on the back for all the things that went so well in his life. Fans will enjoy it, although for real laughs they'll do better renting Where's Poppa? at the video store. (May)
Logitech g hub g13. Forecast:Reiner's planned appearances at BEA and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, along with advance praise from Mel Brooks, should drum up interest from old-time comedy fans.
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Reviewed on: 04/14/2003
Release date: 05/01/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
Release date: 05/01/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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