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Entertainment Outlook Talking with CARL REINER HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday March Page Three decades each brought mile stones in the career of toractor Carl Reiner In the 1950s Reiner starred with Coca and Sid Caesar in the landmark TV comedy Your Show of Shows In the 1960s he created wrote and costarred in the classic Dick Van Dyke Show and he turned his best selling autobiographical novel En Laughing into a hit Broadway play In the 1970s Reiner moved over to the big screen and directed some of that decades most successful come dies including The Jerk with Steve Martin and Oh God starring George Bums as you who WITH 1 Your copy is available al many of our conveniently located dealers like TARGET FOOD STORE QUELPH ST GEORGETOWN PICK UP FREE COPY OF THE HERALD TODAY STAR SPEAK somebody had this idea from their gut and they put it on screen Usually there any precedence to great works of art not that Bert is a great work of art but it a great work of craft What was the origin of The Dick Van Dyke Show A I was just writing about my own days on Your Show of Shows Re TV has always had the same percentage of excellence about percent viewers at the time said Dick Van Dyke was the first show to show what it really was like to go to work When you watch Dick Van Dyke in reruns are the shows as fan as they seemed then A I ve taped them all I looked at one yesterday I roared like I had nothing to do with it I almost forgot I wrote the first shows The only thing that t hold up is Mary ler Moore s role because women role in society has changed Every so often things come up where Mary de cides not to be a dancer and continue to be a housewife Today I never dare write that Was the golden age of TV in the 50s really that golden or have our memories of it enhanced it over the years A Nobody has ever done a revue on Carl Reiner The Bronx born son of a watchmak Reiner now 66 continues his film work with Bert Rigby Youre a Foot He wrote and directed this mu sical comedy about a numble English miner who wants to become new Fred Astaire Here Reiner talks about the golden days of TV his favorite current shows and his battles with network How did an American rector to create such a British film as Bert Rigby Youre a Fool A I may do a picture about how this picture came to be It like a bad Hoi lywood movie My wife and I went to see Me and My Girl a musical im ported from Britain We saw this guy jumping around on stage with all the moves of Gene Kelly and- Fred Astaire combined I was really swept off my feet I said to my wife This guy should be in movies Why haven we seen him before So I wrote Bert Rigby for him Recent movie musicals like A Chorus Line have bombed Did that worry you when you decided to mount a musical film A I never think about those things Studios do All I think about is is it valid material The really great mov ies we adore came about because ooden RESTAURANT GREAT DINING AT AFFORDABLE PRICES FULLY LICENCED Luncheon Specials 1 Open For Sunday Brunch 00 a 3 p New Saturday Hours Now Open For Lunch 1 1 30 a 9 00 p m HQURS Tubs 1 1 30 a 9 00 p Saturday 11 30 a 9 Sunday 11 a 8 p m Under New Management WOODEN HEART RESTAURANT 56 Mill St E ACTON Blocks East of 25 8533561 TV as good as Your Show of Shows Carol Burnett Saturday Night Live have come close Luckily we got together the best people in TV at that point and nobody has ever been able to assemble such a cast again Whats your opinion of TV today A I believe TV has always had the same percentage of excellence about percent You just have to sort through a lot of junk to get to the 2 percent Cosby is sometimes just brilliant In the Heat of the Night- just had a thoughtful piece on capital punishment no preaching juststat ing what It Is Lonesome Dove was a milestone I like The Wonder Years How has TV changed since you began in the A One obvious thing You can say anything you want on TV I the first Young Comedians show on HBO years ago I remeniber saying expletive on the air After years of putting Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke In twin beds and not being allowed to say pregnant I just had to say expletive on TV Why did you walk off the second Dick Van Dyke Show in A I wrote an episode where their son walks in on them in the bedroom We didn show anything but it was implied they had been making love The network said it wasnt in Dick Van Dykes image I said Listen I created that image I know what it is Today that scene would be consH ered mild Yon played the but seldomseen TV star Alan Brady on the original Dick Van Dyke Show Why did yon have such a small role A I was too busy writing While they were staging that week show I was writing the next weeks I just wrote myself in every few weeks I used to just show my back to the audi so they think Alan Brady was somebody more important than Carl Reiner HI NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE SAME DAY TAX RETURNS Guelph St Georgetown 8772217 GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 CINEMA 1 3rd GREAT WEEK Nick Nolte Martin Short THREE FUGITIVES Evenings at 00 9 15pm Matinee Sat Sun at 2 00 CINEMA 2 STARTS TODAY ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS 8- BEST PICTURE BUST ACTOR BEST RECTOR BEST SCREE r M HOFFMAN CRUISE RAIN MAN Evenings at 00 9 20 p m Sat Sun Matinee at p CINEMA 3 Even ngs at 1 Sat Sun Matinee at p STARTS TODAYI