Wednesday, August 12, 2009

1950, Golden TV memory made of stamps

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Postal Service is going into show biz.
Sales began Tuesday "Early Memories TV" memory of classic stamps with characters of gold in 1950 years.
The campaign was launched in an overcrowded room of 'Academy of Arts and Sciences of television in North America, Hollywood. Funny man Carl Reiner, the program works with his comments.

One of the artists of the television from 1948, he doesn't have its stamp. The reason: he is 87 and is still alive. You must have died on the stamp.

Reiner introduced dozens of survivors of the stars with stamps. These include: Jayne Meadows, the widow of Steve Allen, Grace Bradley Boyd, widow of William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Tracy Nelson and Sam, the third generation of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Barbara Hale, aka Della Street, Perry Mason Secretary ( Raymond Burr).
The star of the show could have Lassie, the bark and the orders of his coach.

"It 's in the 10th generation of Collies," said Lockhart in the month of June, with the stars in the "Lassie" from 1956 to 1964. "In all my years of working with them, and not a po 'me."
The first television broadcasts on the stamps are "I Love Lucy" with a picture of his girlfriend Lucy and Ethel are fighting for Rolling with Candy on a conveyor belt.

Uncle Milty is a phenomenon that Milton Berle's funniest moments on "Texaco Star Theater."
George Burns and Gracie Allen comedy, like Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in "The Honeymooners."

Who can forget the connivance Sgt Ernest T. Bilka played by the 'over-the-top Phil Silvers. It's also the original of the Comédie-Game Show Groucho Marx and his duck puppet "is Bet Your Life."
The mysterious page of stamps in honor of Alfred Hitchcock, which presents Tales of Suspense, and Jack Webb, of the secrets of the LAPD unraveled's Sgt Joe Friday "raid".

Perry Mason made an appearance on a stamp with Raymond Burr, who played the star defense lawyer, and William talman specializing in cases of loss of Mason playing prosecutor Hamilton Burger.
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Roast of Joan Rivers : Carl Reiner

Last night on Comedy Central, has been long awaited by Joan River Roast, he was my hero of Kathy Griffin. You must admit, Joan is one of the most fun ever! I think that would otherwise have fun, even himself? I love Joan Rivers you don \ 't think I am so funny that I am. It was fun to meet your car.

The great Carl Reiner was a roasting pan, a true legend of comedy, I find so amusing Fricke. Tom Arnold, it was also fun for all he had for his marriage to Anne Rose, where without it?

About all that I thought that was a big roast, better than the last. I thought Shatner to Pamela Anderson and fun. This move. Yes, in reality does not check, but I say that the show was good. Read More.....

He is Carl reiner


Carl Reiner is one of the few people in the 20th century Renaissance real mass media. Known for his work as an author, writer and producer of The Dick Van Dyke Show - one of the few classic sitcoms, along with other measures - Reiner has his mark as a comedian, actor, writer and director. Queen's "Golden Age" TV with Sid Caesar in his next film with Steve Martin, the Emmy Award-winning Reiner has hit three generations of American comedy.

After Vince Waldron's Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book, Reiner began his career as a comedian in the design Catskill Mountains. After the Second World War, has landed the lead role in a national tour for the production company Call Me Mister, is reprized then to Broadway. Reiner's big breakthrough came in 1950 as producer Max Leibman who was working in the Catskills, Reiner Cast of comic actor Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. The creative genius of the show's writers, including Mel Brooks and Neil Simon, Reiner latest contribution many ideas for the series' sketches. The experience, which certainly Reiner with much food for the next Dick Van Dyke Show. Although it is never the credit for his efforts to insert your letter shows, in 1955 and 1956, he earned his first two of several Emmy Awards for his role as an actor. In 1957, Reiner won another medium, as in one of his stories in Enter Laughing, a semi-autobiographical novel focuses on a struggle player's desire to show. In 1963 the book was a success the game.

By the summer of 1958, after Caesar's third and final round was canceled, Reiner was spent preparing for what many believe, his greatest strength - the letter of the first thirteen episodes of the Head of the Family, a sitcom with the exploits of the fictional New York comedy writer Rob Petrie. The origin of a vehicle, which, in itself, Reiner's pilot not sell. But Danny Thomas Productions producer Sheldon Leonard loved the idea and said that had the potential, if this is still Actors - Leonard's great way to say "Keep out Reiner device. " If Reiner's Rob Petrie TV-Newcomer Dick Van Dyke - had only one successful run on Broadway Bye, Bye Birdie - The Dick Van Dyke Show is Born
As you enter Laughing, Reiner has been autobiografico Sitcom. As Petrie was a pure New York writer, has lived in New Rochelle. As Petrie, Reiner spent part of his days of World War II Camp Crowder in Joplin, Missouri, a fact that has been in several episodes of backtracking. Even Petrie 148 Bonny Meadow Road address was a reference to Reiner ' s 48-Bonny Meadow Road Home
Maybe it was the realism, the series' timeless, making it a precursor of this demanding and intelligent sitcoms like Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show. As the work later, Reiner's - serial the integrity of the floods on the laughter. At first, both at home and work and life of the series'main character, Reiner also interesting for the two suburban and urban New York. Dick Van Dyke Show also acts as A first example of "employees of the family" format, which has become a staple in the modern relationship sitcoms.

Carl Reiner was one of the first "Manufacturer author, with his first thirteen episodes of the Bible, its consequences were. He continued to write, much of the series' best, and the recurrent presentation of Alan Brady, the egomaniacal star of the variety of writing and the crew Petrie. After a difficult first season in 1961, Leonard was able to convince the leaders of CBS, the series was for him a second chance. The series was a top hit in years, have five seasons, before voluntary retirement. Of course, testing n 'still air, and, in collaboration with I Love Lucy includes some of the most frequently observed Syndication history. This series, with the Mary Tyler Moore Show, also have major TV classic Nick at Nite Central.
While many believe Dick Van Dyke Show, which ends with Reiner's career, his films can not be ignored. Enter Laughing, having in 1967, Reiner has several films, such as the famous comic strip (1969), a black comedy, with Dick Van Dyke stars as an aging film Silent-Comique, el 'Poppa (1970). Reiner is also the vehicle managed extravagant George Burns Oh, God! (1977). Reiner is also for his role as a man "in 2000, the old" who had shot with Mel Brooks in 1960.

In 1970, Van Dyke and Reiner enter again Television New Dick Van Dyke Show. While Reiner had hoped, the new track, is the anger on the network-standard provisions that preclude their refinement. It was not until 1976 that Reiner series television as an actor and executive producer of short-lived ABC sitcom Good heavens.
Just as Dick Van Dyke Show represented a price differential of the standard sitcom of 1960, Saturday Night Live and his famous guests Host Steve Martin was forged at the end of 1970, humor. Again, to date, in collaboration with Martin Reiner"wild and crazy" the transition to the comedy film, directed by Reiner Jerk (1979), Man with two Brains (1983), and "All Of Me (1984).
In a 1995 episode of ABC-comedy series Mad About You, Reiner reprized of his role as Alan Brady. In the fiction of the new sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show is "true", what is the nature Brady. Reiner's power over the whole body of his work, his days with Sid Caesar from his job as a writer, director and producer, and the portrait in this new context, the echo, with reference to the history of television, lived and where he has contributed a full.
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New books of Carl reiner

The 12-time Emmy Award winner Carl Reiner, famous for writing, producing and directing comedy, it is a credit to us, even with the new books that should be the beginning of September and 29THE the set course .
For now, we can only book titles and a quick check (for the issue) for readers who are waiting impatiently for the enthusiasm, that the books of the veteran American author. The books are the titles Just Desserts: A Novellah and I still say a Scary Story ... Scary, but not too much.

His work, "Just Desserts: A Novellah" - which will be published on 1 September is
"funny romantic success story writer Nat Noland, only the cage of a large ratterten. Noland decided, E-Mail-God with a list of proposals. It receives a response.

"Tell me another disturbing story ... but not Scary" - be published, September 29 - is a --

"2003, after her child, "Tell Me a Scary Story." The suite also includes a CD Reiner reading the story, are 29. September"
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Carl Reiner US Writer Releases 2 New Book next month

NEW YORK, August 4 (UPI) - US-writer, producer, actor and director Carl Reiner pen has written two books for publication next month, said his agent

Reiner, born in Bronx, New York, son of Bessie (born Mathias) Reiner and Irving, who was a watchmaker. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When she was sixteen, his brother Charlie in the New York Daily News in a free workshop on dramatic on the Works Progress Administration, and to say. He was a driver, fixing sewing machines. He credits Charlie with his plans to change training. Reiner studied at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and served in U.S. Army during the Second World War.


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