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'A wonderful adventure in fine dining" - Danny Raskin

been funny practically since birth. "As
a kid, I could always make people
laugh, and I could perfectly tell and
retell jokes I heard on the radio," he
says.
His first performance occurred when
he put one leg behind his head and
hopped on the other in front of his
rapt kindergarten teachers and class-
mates. A smaller crowd watched his
Orthodox bar mitzvah, which he says
took place "on a Thursday morning
before Mincha, with just a minyan of
old Jews."
By 1950, Reiner was writing and
performing on Sid Caesar's Your Show
of Shows, where he met a short, outra-
geous fellow writer named Mel
Brooks. "Mel Yiddishized everything,"
Reiner recalls. "I'll never forget he
used to do this character called The
Jewish Pirate.' Instead of a Jolly
Roger, he had a Jolly Magen David."
While hanging out in the writer's
room one day, Reiner made history
when he turned to Brooks and ad-
libbed, "Here was a man who was at
the scene of the crucifixion 2,000

that the 2,000 Year Old Man was uni-
versal.
His notoriously cheap neighbor,
Cary Grant, had schnorred a dozen
copies of the album to take along on a
trip to England; when he returned, he
knocked on Reiner's door.
"She loved it," Grant gushed.
"Who?" Reiner asked.
"The Queen Mother."
"The biggest gentile in the world,"
marveled Reiner, who became a
foundinc, father of a TV sitcom that
same year when he created The Dick
Van Dyke Show based on his home life
during Your Show of Shows.
In 1979, Reiner again made history
by directing The Jerk, the movie that
would catapult Steve Martin to super-
stardom.
He went on to direct three more
films with the Texas-born comic, who
proved to be a very different kind of
collaborator than Brooks. "Mel is
loud, noisy, abrasive and hilarious,
while Steve is quiet and hilarious,"
says Reiner, who is dad to When Harry
Met Sally.. director Rob Reiner. "But

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Danny Raskin

years ago. Did you
George Clooney, left, and Brad Pitt
funny is funny."
know Jesus?"
as con-men in the remake of
The septuagenar-
Brooks instantly
"Ocean's Eleven." Most people
ian could say the
lapsed into a thick
never saw the original starring the
same of himself.
Yiddish accent and
Rat Pack, notes Clooney. "They just
During the six-
replied, "Thin lad,
think they have because those guys
week Ocean's Eleven
wore sandals, came
were the coolest. Nobody touches
shoot, he regaled
into my store, but
Frank and Sammy and Dean, and
his young co-stars
he never bought a
we wont ever be that cool. But we
with amusing
thing."
do have a really great story."
Hollywood stories.
Over the next 10
"Of course, while
years, Reiner
they knew who I
shlepped a tape recorder to parties to
was, they-didn't really know what I'd
capture their 2,000 Year Old Man
done," Reiner confides.
shtick, though he says he and Brooks
But he didn't mind. "The only thing
refused to cut a record because "we
I don't accept is people who don't
were afraid the accent would play into
know who Hitler is," he says. ❑
anti-Semitic stereotypes."
It wasn't until after they had record-
Ocean's Eleven, rated PG-13,
ed the album in 1961 that Reiner
opens today in area theaters.
received the penultimate confirmation

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