Carl Reiner

Kathleen Turner, 31 Years Since Body Heat

Felice Arenas | Posted 05.04.2012

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Felice Arenas

Last week, I caught up with Kathleen Turner to talk about going from Broadway to movies and back again, crawling up Steve Martin's leg to get a part, Warren Beatty pursuing her and why she took on her latest role in The Perfect Family.

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'Parks & Rec': Leslie Faces Off Against Carl Reiner, Kathryn Hahn

Posted 05.01.2012

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Carl Reiner proved that age isn't slowing him down any more than it is Betty White or Cloris Leachman with a guest turn on "Parks & Recreation" (Thurs...

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Guess Who's Coming To 'Parks & Rec'?

TV Guide | Posted 03.08.2012

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How's this for your show of shows? TV Guide Magazine has learned exclusively that Parks and Recreation is set to host a living legend when comedy icon...

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Sasha Bronner

'Same-Sex Marriage Has Not Ruined Anyone Else's Marriage'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sasha Bronner | Posted 12.08.2011

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Monday night at the sparkling Beverly Wilshire Hotel proved to be a love-fest. Hollywood's best and brightest came out to celebrate television leg...

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Did You Hear the One About Four Comedians Trapped In a Mine?

Erica Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Erica Heller

What if, say, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry David and Richard Lewis were trapped underground for 69 days? How would they fare?

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Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner: Still Kings of Comedy

Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Debra Levine

"We didn't know if they were after Communists, Jews, or just short people." With that great one-liner, Mel Brooks, the funniest man in the world, defused -- no, ridicules -- the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s.

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L.A. Times Festival Of Books: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate Books (PHOTOS)

Mark Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Coggins

To my mind, the two authors at the festival who best represented where the industry has been and where it could be headed were Herman Wouk and Dave Eggers.

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Q & A With Mel Brooks by Tom Teicholz

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Teicholz

[This interview originally appeared in print in The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles in the issue dated Feb 26- March 4, 2010. Go to www.JewishJournal.co...

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Red Carpet Barbecue: Joan Rivers and a Gaggle of Celebs Spawn the Roast of All Roasts

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Archer

The red carpet was actually snow white, making the color scheme the only thing "clean" at the taping of the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers.

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Joan Rivers Roast: Kathy Griffin, Melissa Rivers And More Take Shots At The 'Queen Of Mean' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two weeks ago friends and soon-to-be-former friends of Joan Rivers gathered together to send up and put down the Emmy Award-winning comedienne and bes...

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2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

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A Hilariously Tasteless Birth of a Notion

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Without films like Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? we wouldn't have had the Farrelly brothers, the Judd Apatow machine or a lot of other comedy that's fairly commonplace today.

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Billy Crystal Honored With Humor Prize

Ben Nuckols | Ben Nuckols | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carl Reiner, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg have all won it. Now, to borrow a famous movie line he wrote, Billy Crystal is having what they're havin...

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