Word: reiner
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...final doubles match, junior David Lingman and sophomore Mark Riddell cruised early on, going up 7-2 versus Matias Marin and Reiner Neurohr. Baylor managed to roll off five straight games, however, to tie the score...
...Reiner, co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, was appalled when he saw his studio's film Proof of Life. It wasn't that he could predict the movie's demise at the box office. "I thought, 'Wow, why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising cigarettes to kids...
...Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking out of one script after the meeting, "but the actor insisted on smoking," she says. In fact, many movie stars can't leave their cigarettes in the dressing room. "Actors who smoke look for any reason to incorporate it into their characters," Reiner says. "You have directors who don't care about the social implications or are kowtowing to the actors...
...friendly meetings and cutely named awards fail, critics have a solution the industry will hate: require an R rating on movies that glamorize smoking. "If your movie has the F word twice, you get rated R," says Reiner. "But that's a lot less harmful...
...assembles a crew of 10 other men (hence Ocean’s Eleven) to steal $160 million from an impenetrably fortified vault holding cash reserves from the Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand casinos. Ocean runs the show, bringing in card-sharp Dusty (Brad Pitt), impersonator Saul (Carl Reiner) and pickpocket Linus (Matt Damon), among others, to complete...