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Carl Reiner Scores
With Second Novel

MICHAEL ELKIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

H

e is one novel guy.
Make that two.
Actor-producer -
director-writer Carl
Reiner is reeling in great
notices for All Kinds of Love,
his second novel, coming 35
years after the premiere of
his first publishing venture.
Why the wait? "I've been
busy," he says.
The author of the
autobiographical novel
Enter Laughing (1958) is jok-
ing — somewhat. The one-
man media mogul has been
busy: Carl Reiner's bio reads
like a street map of a neigh-
borhood paved in gold.
Since his acting days on
Sid Caesar's "Your Show of
Shows" in the '50s, Mr.
Reiner has been a roving
showcase of the best that TV
and other media have to
offer.
Witty, warm and at times
wacky, the man has had a
lifelong love affair with the
arts. Now, Mr. Reiner is
making book on All Kinds of
Love, a satirical send-up of
sexy and psuedo-Hollywood,
where love pats on the back
are just foreplay for the
daggers to follow.
All Kinds of Love is all
kinds of mishugas, with
husband and wife Fred and
Sharon in love and lust with
the same Japanese linguist,
Hana Yoshi, an expert in
aural sex. Son Kevin craves
the Salvadoran maid Maria,
whose twin sister sometimes
doubles for her at work.
Meanwhile Fred's brother,
the oversexed gynecologist
Dr. Dick Cox, is head over
heels with a patient, while
his parents, Sarah and Leon,
Kevin's bubbie and zayde,
are having a grand time at
grandparenting.
When they have the time
that is: These sexually ac-
tive octogenarians will
never be accused of resign-
ing themselves to a "bed and
bored" retirement in Miami.
This is one mixed-up Jew-
ish clan whose idea of family
values is bargain basement
hand-me-downs.
But don't mix up the au-
thor with the characters he
has created. Carl Reiner, the
Bronx-born son of a wat-
chmaker, knows that time

Michael Elkin us entertainment
editor for the Jewish
Exponent in Philadelphia.

Carl Reiner has a second contribution in the literature world.

flies when you're having
fun; and fun includes spen-
ding time with family.
"Family values are impor-
tant to me," says the media
mogul who values the
respect and admiration of
his three kids — actor-
director Rob, writer-artist
Annie and artist-director
Lucas.
Is there anybody in the
family whose mad dash to
happiness has left them
unhyphenated? Not really:
Estelle, to whom Mr. Reiner

The past evokes a
treasure chest of
memories.

has been happily wed for 50
years, is a noted jazz singer.
Over the years, the multi-
ple Emmy-Award winning
Carl Reiner, who created
"The Dick Van Dyke Show"
more than 30 years ago, is
used to having others sing
his praise. With the publica-
tion of his second book, the
kudos are coming in vol-
umes.
Steve Martin, who starred
in a number of Carl Reiner
films, including The Jerk,
proves a class guy with this
comment on All Kinds of
Love: "This proves that 'The
Dick Van Dyke Show' was
actually written by Carl and
by elves."
Yet there is a bit of the elf

in Carl Reiner, a
mischievous man who even
at age 71 has a little of the

little boy in him.
Why else would Carl
Reiner write a sex spoof at a
time when other auteurs are

donning author's robes to
write their autobiographies?
"Actually," says Mr.
Reiner, "I didn't know what
I would be writing. I just
started with the first line
and took it from there. I
never do outlines. I didn't
even know what the hero's
name would be."
Well, he had a hunch. "I
was thinking of Warren
Solowitz, but then I'd have
to type that name each
time." Fred Cox, he figured,
was shorter.
In a short time, Carl
Reiner was rolling. "A
dysfunctional family usually
has a root," someone to
ground them in reality, says
Mr. Reiner. This fictional
family's root is the grand-
father. "He has good instinc-
ts, even in ignorance."
In a way Mr. Reiner's fic-
tional zayde relates to his
real-life father, a smart man,
if uneducated, who was "an
inventor, a scientist of
sorts."
Carl Reiner had the for-
mula for success early on, a
certain chemistry to make it
in show business. But that
wasn't originally what his
dad was prescribing.
"My father was hoping I'd
be a doctoii recalls Mr.

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