16 posts tagged carlreiner

Whenever I describe the idea of Yesterday’s Hits to someone who’s never read the column, I’m often asked, “why write about movies that aren’t popular anymore?” There are a number of reasons, but one of the biggest has always been a kind of anthropological fascination with the movies to which earlier generations gravitated.

Today Carl Reiner turns 86 years old. Here are a few episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show that he wrote.

I like throwing snowballs at small children. Sam Mendes Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Election cycles bring high and noble words written in speeches and spoken from stumps, railcars, and You Tube videos. In every cycle the speeches are different, but somehow the same. Many hear the speeches for the first time or as if it were the first time and swoon in wonder and awe.

World War Z - just brilliant February 22nd, 2008 “They’re coming to get you, Barbara” With these haunting words George Romero introduced to the world the pop cultural interpretation of zombies. Following the harrowing night of a small group of survivors hiding out in a farm house the influential

World War Z - just brilliant February 22nd, 2008 “They’re coming to get you, Barbara” With these haunting words George Romero introduced to the world the pop cultural interpretation of zombies. Following the harrowing night of a small group of survivors hiding out in a farm house the influential

Comic Relief: in the UK, it's a party like you wouldn't believe, culminating in Red Nose Day every two years and finds an entire country having a good time and doing good for other. In the United States, you'd be hard pressed to remember the last time it aired on television.

Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. The son of Irving and Bessie (Mathias) Reiner, he is the father of actor-turned-director Rob Reiner (b. 1945), poet, playwright and author Let us know if it works - I lived in Houston many years ago, and I never got to see part of it explode.

Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, The ties are off and the collars are out for this breezy third entry in the slick crime caper serial in which the ever-smug Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his misfit band of thieves are starting to feel the pinch of old age.

Okay, so by now our American readers should have received all of their W-2s and 1099s and 8675309s and all the other crap that we need in order to shovel more funds into the maw of our bloated government. But fear not: we've called upon a pair of experts to help you sort out what's what.