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etting cast in Steven

Soderbergh's Ocean's
Eleven," says Carl Reiner,
was kind of like a scene
from the Las Vegas heist movie.
a remake of the 1960
In the film
Rat Pack flick — crooks played by
George Clooney and Brad Pitt recruit
fellow con-men by paying each a sur-
prise visit. In a case of life imitating
art, Ocean's producer Jerry Weintraub
recruited Reiner by urgently ringing
his Beverly Hills doorbell last year.
The legendary actor-writer-director

There was the chance to work with
wunderkind Soderbergh ( Traffic, Erin
Brockovich). And the grumpy, rum-
pled, Rolaids-popping Bloom was too
hilarious a role to pass up.
"We first see him in the cheap seats
at the dog track," Reiner notes. "He
was probably a brilliant con artist in
his day, but now he doesn't even have
enough money to play the horses."
The fictional Bloom is one of two
Jews on the Ocean's Eleven team (the
other is a Liberace-esque ex-casino
owner hilariously played by Elliott
Gould).
In the course of the elaborate casino
scam, Bloom gets to impersonate a

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wealthy European
Andy Garcia as Las Vegas
was hosting a dinner
businessman of inde-
casino
owner
Terry
Benedict
party, but Weintraub —
terminate origin.
and Carl Reiner as Saul
who'd produced Reiner's
"Soderbergh let me
Bloom: "He was probably a
1977 film Oh, God.' —
pick my accent, so I
brilliant con artist in his
said he had a problem.
decided to be a
day, but now he doesn't even
Ocean's 11 was sched-
Russian," says Reiner,
have
enough
money
to
play
uled to begin shooting
who
is so facile a
the
horses."
in Vegas the following
mimic
that in the
week, but cast member
course of an inter-
Alan Arkin was in the
view he perfectly
hospital. Would Reiner
impersonates Stalin, Cary Grant and
step in to play Saul Bloom, the eldest
Edward G. Robinson.
member of the heist team?
"Every time I turned to my hench-
The 79-year-old Reiner — creator
men,
I'd use a phrase from this
straight
of The Dick Van Dyke Show,
Russian-language song, 'Black Eves.' I
man to Mel Brooks' 2,000 Year Old
thought it was so funny because there
Man —wasn't actively looking for act-
I was pretending to be Russian and I
ing gigs. HAtkiiiit directing since his
was just mouthing song lyrics."
last film, That Old Feeling, starring
The Bronx-bred Reiner — whom
Bette Midler, had wrapped in 1997.
Brooks
calls the "tall, bald Jew" -- has
But then again, Ocean's was tempting.