Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carl Reiner just couldn't believe that Mel Brooks was 2000 years old. In the pair's famous 1960s comedy routine, "The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Man, Reiner observes incredulously, "Sir, you really don't look 2000." Undaunted, Brooks retorts, "Well, I take care of myself." Still not satisfied, Reiner demands that Brooks produce a birth certificate of some kind. Brooks answers, "We didn't have that then". Reiner prompts his subject, "So you were primitive." Nodding, Brooks elaborates, "We were primitive; we were atavistic; we were--what is the word I'm searching for--dumb...
...Reiner said that the main goal of his program is really to educate the public on the issues...
Audience members expressed mixed reactions to Reiner's address...
...mandating anything--we're not telling people how to raise their children, we're just giving them the access to the information," Reiner said...
...solve the need for money, Reiner said he plans to turn toward citizens, corporations, private investors and state coffers and to propose plans to redirect tax dollars...