WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.279 Hi, This is Carl Reiner working hard to promote his 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:06.519 new book I Remember Me, and where better to promote 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:10.759 it on The Doctor Sky Show. A doctor. He's a 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.640 real doctor. I have never spoken to a doctor who 5 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:17.800 interviews so brilliantly. It's because he's got a degree in 6 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:18.920 what is it? Doctor? 7 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.559 Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, as we continue to move 8 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.039 through time and space. Always great guests here on The 9 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.760 Doctor Sky Show, and as you know, ladies and gentlemen, 10 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.000 from time to time, we're honored by having celebrity guests 11 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:35.200 from all different walks of life, and today is certainly 12 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.359 no exception. Today the great Carl Reiner an American actor, 13 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.799 film director, producer, writer, and comedian. He's won twelve Emmy 14 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.640 Awards and one Grammy Award during his illustrious career. We 15 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.039 have mister Reiner here and we're grateful for his time 16 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.399 talking about his recently issued memoirs entitled I Remember Me. 17 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.520 Spoks some fifty five chapters talking about his life and 18 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.240 all the great people that he's come across in this 19 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.319 most phenomenal life. Sir, welcome to the show. It's a 20 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:06.879 privileged and honor to have you. You're ninety one years young, 21 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.959 and from what I got out of your book, you're 22 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.359 just raring to go for the next ninety one. 23 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:12.760 Well, I'm trying. 24 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:14.879 As a matter of fact, I caught me while I 25 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.920 was tweeting. I love it. I got to read some 26 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.680 of your tweets and tell us the tweets have become 27 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.719 a pretty staple part. 28 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.280 Of your life. You know it's not. I'm going to 29 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:27.879 give you a first. I just tweeted this about five 30 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.799 about four minutes ago. They're two new tweets. There's a 31 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.519 seventy ninth new Reiner Dictionary word. I'm writing a new 32 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:39.159 dictionary with new words. People's you know. The old dictionary 33 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.400 is just you know, it's been done. So this new 34 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:48.000 word is war tech synarctica. Wow, that's an arctic. It's 35 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:52.599 a noun. It's the rare hemispheric condition caused by tornadoes 36 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.400 spawned in divergent weather zones. Vartech synarctica. 37 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.239 Oh that's interesting. And I followed your tweets so well, 38 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.079 mister Ryner. The first one to tell you that I'm 39 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.519 paying attention, as you know better is odd varc and 40 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.799 you describe it as what an hard looking arc. 41 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.639 Eighty two BC well, I got another one I just finished, 42 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:14.960 and I don't know if this is Maybe you can 43 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:22.759 help me. It's they decormative EECU the E c O 44 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:26.199 r U MTIV decormative. 45 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:28.039 Wow, you got me on that one. 46 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:32.479 That's unsolicited advice given to a professional room designer. 47 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:38.439 Decormative and very interesting book. Now when is that book 48 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:39.439 possibly coming out? 49 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:42.240 Oh? I don't know. Before I got definitely nine. I 50 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.719 think I have to do what is the unabridge dictionary thousands. 51 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.719 One hundreds of web the webster is I'm just looking 52 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:52.919 at the websites as one hundred. 53 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.439 And fifty thousand entries, so one hundred and fifty thousand. 54 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.159 So I'm like, I have to Oh, I have to 55 00:02:58.240 --> 00:02:59.599 last another year at least. 56 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:03.240 I'm sure you will talking about I remember me. I mean, 57 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.599 I find this fascinating. Fifty five chapters written from the hearts. 58 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.199 Or I learned so much about you. I learned so 59 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:12.680 much about your children, of course, Rob Annie Lucas, your 60 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.560 lovely wife who sadly passed on as we all know, 61 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.719 in two thousand and eight. But I got a salute you. 62 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:21.120 There's sixty five years married and I'm sure still madly 63 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.400 in love with us spell tell me a little bit 64 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:27.400 about the origin of writing. I remember me well, you know. 65 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.120 I had written a while ago, about a couple of 66 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.240 years ago, I wrote a thing called My Anecdotal Life, 67 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.599 where I decided I might want to write a bio. 68 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.960 And then I said, I don't want to leave. I 69 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.719 just wanted to still be funny. So I've picked out 70 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:45.000 on particular stories that tickled me that were funny, mainly funny, 71 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:48.000 and I finished with it. And then I realized, as 72 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.479 I'm walking around the block every day, stories would pop 73 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.159 into my head. I said, I got to put that down. 74 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.360 I got to put that down. So I kept putting 75 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.960 him down. I realized I had to do this, and 76 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.439 I went, you know, the thing that really triggered me 77 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:03.560 is I got a letter, and I think the first 78 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.479 thing in the book is about my bar Mitzvah speech. 79 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.960 I got a letter from this woman, missus Passarelli, and 80 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.520 she said she found this little speech written in beautiful handwriting. 81 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.759 My father was an engraverent and it was a bar 82 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.639 Mitzvah speech she had done for her her son, and 83 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.439 he had passed away with my age, and she found it. 84 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.879 But she found my father's name on the back, and 85 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.079 she said, you might like to have this, and I 86 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.240 realized that it's the same speech I made a year before. 87 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.680 He has written a little bar Mitzvahs speech for me, 88 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.439 and that thoughted me going. I said, my god, that's 89 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:42.319 the beginning. You know, today I'm a man, and I started. 90 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.199 Absolutely, you become a man. You know. It is Don 91 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.240 just joining us, a living legend here in ninety one 92 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.240 years young. As an American actor, film director, producer, writer, 93 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.199 and comedian. He's won twelve Emmy Awards and one Grammy 94 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.160 Award during his illustrious career that continues in force. We're 95 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.360 talking with none other than Carl Reiner memoir I Remember Me, 96 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.480 fifty five chapters this man. Of course, rocks and ladies 97 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.160 and gentlemen were so privileged to have you. Mister Reyner, 98 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.399 thank you for spending time with us today and talking 99 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.199 all about your life. Let's start with your family, New 100 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.920 York City. I'm a native New Yorker, myself born in Jamaica, 101 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.680 Queens and you, obviously born in the Bronx, New York. 102 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.680 Described to us your early days, your mom Bessie and Irving, 103 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.439 your father a watchmaker, and so much more. He was 104 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:26.000 an inventor too. I understand. 105 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.199 Yes, Well, I saw my father every day of my 106 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.920 life because he worked. He didn't like working in a 107 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:36.800 jewelry story. The story worked and was under the l 108 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:40.000 elevated train and they would rumble by and he would 109 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.600 drop things. So I decided to work at home. Some 110 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:44.879 of the time I was four or five years old, 111 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.240 he was in our living room dining room. That's we 112 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.800 had a three room apartment. He sat by a window 113 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.199 and he did his work, and I came home from 114 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.639 school every day and sat there. And some of the 115 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.519 stories that my favorite story of all was when I 116 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.680 was thirteen. I'm sitting on the couch and my father 117 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.639 was a stoic. He never made any of the sound 118 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.839 of annoyance or he never cursed. The most that ever 119 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.120 came out and was disc diisk and they came out, 120 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:16.839 that's what you did. And when I looked up that 121 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.759 one two times I heard it. Once he had a 122 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.839 screwdriver had pierced the flesh of his forefinger, right the 123 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.399 tip of his forefinger, and all I heard was a 124 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.639 had I looked up and he was thinking about how 125 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:31.560 to get it out. I said, don't you pull it out? 126 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:33.519 Pull it out. He's no, no, I pull it out. 127 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.399 The thick end of the screwdriver rippmof flesh. So he 128 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.639 cut the bottom, pulled it out with the thin pot, 129 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.040 and the band of his finger went back to work. 130 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.759 And that was the first. The second one was my 131 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.759 favorite that I wrote about. He said he did the disk. 132 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:51.639 I looked up and he's look at that, and I said, 133 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.759 what is that? He said he was holding something between 134 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.879 his thumb and forefinger. He says, it's a silver filling. 135 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.240 That's oh, yeah, this is a good chapter. 136 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:04.360 Yeah, that's my tooth thirty eight years he said. I said, Paul, 137 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:06.800 how could you know how long of silver filling is 138 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.600 in your tooth? He said, this one I put in myself. 139 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.040 Oh my god. He actually was like. 140 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.000 Sixteen or eighteen years old. He was, and he lived 141 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.279 in Share of It's Hungry, Poland, and he moved to 142 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:23.279 Vienna when he was fourteen. I think he was already 143 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:27.319 a master watchmaker. He had a seventeen or eighteen He 144 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:32.759 had two molars that had needed filling. He went to 145 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.920 a dentist and the dentist hurt him so badly, he said, 146 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:39.120 ran out of the office, screamed with paint, paid the dentist, 147 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.199 and he said the second one he was going to 148 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.680 do himself. He bought a book. He bought a book 149 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.519 on dentistry, found out how to make facets. He bought 150 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.160 a book on a malcolms how to make silver and 151 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:52.240 mercury filling. That's incredible, And he said, and I wouldn't 152 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.279 hurt myself. He says, I drilled. I had all these 153 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.399 little drills, and I stopped drilling when I felt pain. 154 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.920 It took me a little longer, but he filled the filling. 155 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.360 And an Irving Reiner a very inventive man. That's an 156 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.399 amazing story. Carl. You know you also describe him as 157 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.160 an inventor. I mean you were telling me off air 158 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.639 that there's a lot of things that your father actually 159 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:12.839 put together in a very inventive mind. Tell us a 160 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:14.399 little bit about well, one of the things. 161 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:16.480 Two of the things. I one of the things in 162 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.879 my book. There's a book a picture of him playing 163 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:23.160 the violin, and I entitled it Irving Shoots Irving playing Irving. 164 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.480 The shooting Irving is the part that is what is that. Well, 165 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.480 he did learn to play a violin by buying a 166 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.399 violin when he was twenty years old. He admired the 167 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:35.919 fact his brother took lessons when he was a kid, 168 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.080 and he always said he's going to get a violin 169 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:40.759 when he's twenty. He bought a violin for five hundred 170 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:43.919 dollars that my granddaughter plays today, by the way, and 171 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:46.600 he taught himself to play from a book. Again, he 172 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:49.000 got to and did the same with a flute. He 173 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.639 learned played it in the little orchestras around New York. 174 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.480 And that was, you know, the beginning of his But 175 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.759 now he has this picture of himself playing a violin. 176 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:04.120 And what happened is that my father was always a photographer. 177 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.519 When he was a kid, he made a pinhold camera 178 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:12.080 for himself. He bought it the garatype kind of plate camera, know, 179 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.840 a glass plate camera. When took pictures of my mother 180 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.120 nursing my brother, which I have to this day, a 181 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:21.639 hundred year old picture in glass. And he was a photographer. 182 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.039 There was never any pictures of himself because he was 183 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.039 always taking pictures of other people. He sat one day 184 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.759 and figured out he's a watchmaker. He made a little 185 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:34.679 device with a spring. He wound up a little device, 186 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.480 put it on the camera, gave him one minute to 187 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.519 get into place, and the camera clicked him taking he 188 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.360 took a picture of himself. So there's her, and they 189 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:48.519 weren't Irving shoots Irving playing Irving. My granddaughter played the violin. 190 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:50.879 I saw a concert verse. She's wait, I'll be right 191 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.279 with you. I got to get Irving. I said, who's Irving? 192 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.960 She said, I call the violin Irving. She had a 193 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:02.000 picture of a grandfather in the in the case playing 194 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:02.639 that violent. 195 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.120 Amazing story. Our special guest is Carl Reiner. Legends that 196 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:07.720 I'm going a privilege, an honor to have him today 197 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.679 talking about his memoirs, fifty five chapters of his life, 198 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.600 great story, the book entitled I Remember Me, mister Reyner. 199 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.080 I understand that your brother Charlie is credited for reading 200 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:19.000 something in the New York Daily News about a free 201 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.679 dramatic workshop by the WPA, and you show up and 202 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.679 the rest is history. This is a path that changes 203 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:26.399 always in life. 204 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.240 I had the pleasure of going to Washington one year 205 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:34.080 and when they gave me the mof Twain Prize and 206 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.039 the Library of Congress asked me about how I got 207 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.200 to be who I am, and I realized, you know 208 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.679 now they say, get the government off, get the people 209 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.639 off the government's back. It was the government that made 210 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.960 me who I am today. My brother Charlie saw on 211 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.720 the ad in the paper said, WPA the Works Progress Administration, 212 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.399 Free acting lessons at one hundred Center Street, New York. 213 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:00.840 I went down there and I enrolled seventeen years old, 214 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.639 and I learned reading Shakespeare of things I had never 215 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:07.519 done before. And that was the beginning of it. That 216 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.759 was the government now and then and a year later 217 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:15.279 the NYA Radio Workshop. I got twenty two dollars a 218 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:20.720 month for doing three radio shows a month, announcing operas 219 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:27.519 and you know, in concerts, and doing Archoblers stories and 220 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.840 Norman Coleen plays on the air for twenty two dollars 221 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:34.960 a month. The government paid actors to learn to act 222 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.519 and to be actors. They paid painters to do murals 223 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:43.000 of post offices. They paid, they paid the professional musicians 224 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.240 to learn their craft. And as a matter of fact, 225 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.679 when I was sixteen years old, the first play I 226 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.320 ever saw a musical was The Mercado done by the WPA. 227 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:54.440 In high school. It was thrilling to hear a small 228 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.799 orchestra and a full cast of characters. All these people 229 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.879 would have been out of work now they were getting 230 00:11:59.879 --> 00:12:03.240 an the money for subsistence. So I say, the government 231 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.039 not only helped me, but I wouldn't be an actor 232 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.120 who wasn't for the government. 233 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.720 Well, it's a very interesting story, mister Reyner, because we 234 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:12.240 don't ever really hear the details like you've given us 235 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:14.600 today and shifting years in the short time we have 236 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.960 with You're okay. The love of your life is still 237 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.840 very talented, of course, and amazing story. You're about to 238 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:22.879 tell us that I didn't know this until I read 239 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.679 your memoirs. Of course, that she has the number four 240 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:29.200 most memorable of all time movie lines. Of course, this 241 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.480 most amazing line, which is quote one, I'll have what 242 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.399 she's having when Harry met Sally. She's even the head 243 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:37.879 of Humphrey Bogart with here's looking at you kid? Tell 244 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.519 us about that. That's about Robbie. 245 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:42.519 Robbie Ryanan was doing Harry met Sally in New York 246 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:44.840 and he had this one line that Billy Crystal came 247 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.120 up with, and he called his mother in California, said, 248 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:48.759 may you got to come to New York. She says, 249 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.879 why she's this one line? I want you to say? 250 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.600 And that's his delicatest. And she says, rob there's one 251 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.960 hundred actress in New York can do it. He's not 252 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.799 like you, Bah, and that she did the line and 253 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.240 the rest is history. There wasn't an airport we didn't 254 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.879 go through. People used to yelled, I'll have what she's having. 255 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:06.200 But you know, the interesting thing is he knew his 256 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:09.320 mother could do it. His mother and my wife had 257 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.559 a way of saying funny things very shortly. There's one 258 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:14.919 I have in the book that I absolutely loved. When 259 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:18.320 my son was eighteen and Annie, my daughter was sixteen, 260 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.120 she was thinking what she wanted for her birthday, and 261 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.919 Robbie said, why don't you get a nose yall like 262 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.080 nose job like your friends did. They weren't getting pert 263 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:30.399 little noses in Bethley. They were their sixteen birth I 264 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:32.279 just wait a minute, wait a minute. My mother has 265 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:34.919 a bigger nose than Annie. And look at the handsome 266 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:39.600 guy she got. And Aelle said, yes, it's not the 267 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:42.679 size of your nose that counts, it's what's in it. 268 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.840 At the time I was doing the jerk with Steve Martin. 269 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:49.600 I told him and he laughed. Ten years later he 270 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.279 calls my house. Can I speak to Estelle? I what 271 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.960 is it? I have to ask you something? He said, Estelle, 272 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.519 you know that line? He said? Can I borrow it? 273 00:13:57.600 --> 00:13:59.840 He says, she's of course, what do you want to 274 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.000 He was doing Sirino. He was doing rock sand Yeah, 275 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:07.759 and there're Cirino using his cells launches facilities. If you 276 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.240 news that counts, it's weel. 277 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.159 That is funny. See, I never knew that. I mean, 278 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:15.120 I remember Steve Martin in that particular movie. He's a 279 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.120 lot of wonderful story call Reiner. I mean, this is 280 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.320 an amazing journey your life. I mean, there's so limited 281 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:23.360 time today to talk about so many of the things. 282 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:24.879 But I got to ask you this. Of all the 283 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.600 people that I read about in this book, your close friendship, 284 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.639 your bond at the hip there between you and mel Brooks, 285 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.440 I mean, I can't stop laughing every time I see 286 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.600 that guy on teeth. 287 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:40.200 Well, it's ongoing. We met in nineteen fifty and it's 288 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:44.200 now twenty thirteen and in the last I don't know 289 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.600 how many years. Why we see each other every day. 290 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.399 He comes over every night, that's all television together, we 291 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.919 have dinner together, we fall asleep no, he falls asleep. 292 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.639 I don't fall asleep as much. On I said, wake up, 293 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.679 wake up, something great on. We're watching Breaking Bad now 294 00:14:58.679 --> 00:14:59.559 and we just love it. 295 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:03.399 We have It's amazing. I mean, mel is something you know. 296 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.399 I'm obviously as a personal friend, but watching and seeing 297 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.200 these movies when I was young, like blazing saddles. I 298 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:13.279 mean I never laughed so hard, just hilarious, the slew 299 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:13.519 of the. 300 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.960 Funniest movies ever made, the producers blazing circles. I mean, 301 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.080 it's just he broke it open for everybody to go crazy. 302 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.080 Paul Reiner, You've been in a number of wonderful movies too. 303 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.159 Another one that I enjoy and I'm going to promote here, 304 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:28.600 and I'd love you to tell me a little bit 305 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.720 behind the scenes story. The Russians Are Coming. The Russians 306 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:34.080 Are Coming. Now here's one that I think is also 307 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:35.279 a phenomenal movie. 308 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:37.879 To say, well, I love being in that because when 309 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.159 I did The Russians Are Coming, I hadn't acted for 310 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.480 about five or six years, not seriously. I was producing 311 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.240 and writing in The Dick Van Dyke Show for television, 312 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.919 and at the very end of last year Norman Jewiston 313 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:52.159 came to my house. He said, I got this project. 314 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.039 I'd like you to be in it. And he offered 315 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.720 be the role of the Russian, the Russian character in it, 316 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.639 and I said, she I used to do that on 317 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.759 the show shows, fake Russian accent. And I turned it down, 318 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.720 and as a matter of fact, I'm glad I did, 319 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.440 because I got the role of the lead. He came 320 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.399 back again, he said, would you like to play the lead? 321 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:11.519 And I had never played a lead in the movie. 322 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.440 And it was the last two weeks of the show 323 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:17.440 of Van Dyke Show and Persky and then of Bill 324 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.200 Persky and Sandna took over for me, and I was 325 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.600 able to go free and become an actre and put 326 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.039 my tupe on again and become an actors And that 327 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.600 was that was a thrill for me, going up to 328 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:37.480 Mendosino County and just working with n with Evil Re 329 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.720 Saint and Johnny Winters and the wonderful cast of people 330 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.159 in that. It was just a thrill. 331 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.240 Call Wrin in more recent movies than I'm sure a 332 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.960 lot of folks the younger generation recognizes as the Great 333 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.799 Ocean Series eleven, twelve, and thirteen, they know you. I'm 334 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:53.519 sure as many. 335 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.759 And by the way, I have to thank mister Wintrout 336 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:01.879 for casting me in that, because now nobody would know 337 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.919 who I am, because all of the good things I 338 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.200 did with twenty thirty years ago. But Saul Bloom happened 339 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.200 to the Ocean's eleven, twelve, and thirteen happened recently. So 340 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:13.720 when I do go to story, young kids will say, oh, 341 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:18.039 that's the guy from Oceans. They've kept me alive. 342 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.519 Folks, an amazing moment here in our broadcast history. Here 343 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.400 we're privileging on her to have Carl Reiner once again 344 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.079 an American actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian. He's 345 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.440 won twelve Emmy Awards, have won Grammy Award during his career. 346 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:35.680 He's kind enough to talk with us today about his 347 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.960 new memoir, some fifty five chapters of Amazing Stories, that 348 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.440 a gentleman simply entitled I Remember Me. We're speaking with 349 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:46.079 him from his home in California. Mister Ryner, there's so 350 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.440 many shows that you've been on, and I find in 351 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:50.039 a short time that we have here. I just wanted 352 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:51.920 you to talk a little bit about Dick Van Dyke, 353 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.880 the show we had Rose Marie here about a month 354 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.240 or two ago and goud Lusser. He's also a wonderful actress, 355 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.000 as you know, and come to nowhere but talk about 356 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.359 to Dick Van Dyke Show and Dick Van Dyke, well. 357 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:04.119 The Dick van Dyke Show. After I did the Show 358 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.319 of Shows, I was being offered shows to do with 359 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:10.440 situation comedies and they weren't very good. To my wife 360 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.640 and are infinite wisdom says, why don't you write one? 361 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.519 And I don't, can't write that. And what I did is, 362 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:19.079 I remember this is Zephore. Yesterday, I was riding home 363 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.359 to Newshell in my car at the ninety sixth Street 364 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:25.720 Eggres on the Franklin Bill and Roosevelt Drive, and I 365 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.359 said to myself, Hey, Reiner, what piece of ground do 366 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:30.920 you stand on nobody else stands on. I said, well, 367 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:33.880 I live in Newshelle, I work in New York, and 368 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.200 when I'm in New York, I work on a variety 369 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:39.240 show and I talk about how it is at home 370 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:41.160 with my wife and kids. When I get home, I 371 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.519 talk about the show. I'll write about that. And I 372 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.079 wrote a thing called Head of the Family, and it 373 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:50.000 turned out to be a pretty good pilot, and peterel 374 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.759 Offerd picked it up to he was going to finance it, 375 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:55.079 and I realized, if I did a pilot and I 376 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.319 was in it, I better have a bible. So that 377 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.880 summer I wrote thirteen episodes of The of the Head 378 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:03.400 of the Family. I did the pilot. It was okay. 379 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.039 I did it with a very good actress Barbara Britton 380 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:09.559 and Morty Gunty and Sylvia Miles. But it wasn't good 381 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.319 enough and it didn't sell. So I went up about 382 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.319 my business and I wrote a movie for Dar's Day 383 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.279 called The Thrill of It Or. I was at Universal 384 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:19.759 and I get a call from my agent, who was 385 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.359 very bothered that he had thirteen episodes of what he 386 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.880 considered might be a hit show on his desk just 387 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.119 spawned and he called me in one day. He says, 388 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.160 I've given this to Sheldon Lendon and Danny Thomas, who 389 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.039 have a production company, and they want to see you. 390 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:37.880 And I came up there and I said, gentlemen, I'm 391 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:40.480 so pleased that you liked my material that I don't 392 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.160 want to fail the same material twice. And Sheldon, I'll 393 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:46.960 do a good impression of him right here. He says, Carl, 394 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:50.480 you won't fail because we will get a better rector 395 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:54.400 to play you, and he suggested Dick Van Dyke went 396 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:56.799 to the house, saw him and bye by Bertie and 397 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:01.400 found maybe the most talented actor. This man could do anything, 398 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:03.759 anything at the drop of a hat. He can be 399 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:05.119 fifteen different things. 400 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:07.640 Mister Runny, you're so correct, and you know not to 401 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:10.599