Word: reiner
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...might seem to be show biz--all the more because the speaker is Rob Reiner, the onetime regular on All in the Family and now a renowned movie director. But the speech, before the American Heart Association, is only tangentially about Reiner's childhood. More directly, he is imploring his listeners to help get out the vote for Proposition 10, a California ballot initiative that would tax tobacco to fund programs for preschoolers. "Politicians like to say children are the future," Reiner says, "but what have they done for them? Everyone knows that the first three years of life...
...Reiner, 51, is author and chief promoter of one of the more ambitious pieces of social legislation ever crafted on a state level. Picking up where the U.S. Congress left off when a proposed $368 billion federal tobacco lawsuit settlement was killed in June, Prop 10 would add a 50[cent] tax to each pack of cigarettes sold in California. The money, up to $700 million a year, would be channeled into antitobacco programs and early-childhood health and education. The higher prices would result in an estimated 25% drop in smoking--and consequent savings in the state...
Rachel's birth virtually collided with last year's media blitz about new brain research that warned of the need to provide our youngest citizens with a rich array of stimulating experiences. Everyone from Rob Reiner and Robin Williams to the Clintons embraced the cause. The White House even held a baby-brain summit. As a new mom, I was intrigued--and unnerved--by the scientific breakthroughs and dire warnings about the consequences of ignoring them...
...votes you've sent us by mail, e-mail time100@time.com and through our website time.com) We also again convened a panel of luminaries with Charlie Rose as host, which was broadcast on his great PBS show; this one, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, included Sheryl Crow, Rob Reiner, Anna Deavere Smith, our art critic Robert Hughes and Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstine. Then, in a series of occasionally contentious (but stimulating) meetings, we sat down to choose a final list of 20 with our partners at cbs News, who are producing an hour prime-time...
Also on hand are performances of works the artists never recorded commercially, such as Fritz Reiner's elegant, pastoral reading of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and the lyrical and propulsive performance of Chopin's Concerto No. 1 by Bruno Walter and Arthur Rubinstein, who, under contract to different labels, were never permitted to record together. There are David Oistrakh and Dimitri Mitropoulos in their nonpareil, rivetingly intense U.S. debut of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, and memorable farewells like the thrilling immolation scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in 1952 with Walter and Kirsten Flagstad in her last appearance with...