Word: reiner
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...favorite scoundrel, Danny Ocean, the part once owned by Frank Sinatra. In Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to 2001's $183 million--grossing remake of the 1960 caper flick Ocean's Eleven, he is flanked again by Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould and Andy Garcia and newcomers Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bruce Willis--and they just make Clooney seem bigger. Even around Pitt, he's still the alpha male. When the Ocean's actors needed to get away from the crowds who waited outside their hotel, Clooney would shout...
...safer, simpler world. Maybe that's why what began as a video scrapbook of their joint 70th birthday celebration wound up an award-winning film, The Bronx Boys, which has appeared on Cinemax, played at a few film festivals and begun appearing on PBS stations this fall. Carl Reiner is the host of the film, which was edited and directed by Benjamin Hershleder, a filmmaker in his 30s. "They have something special, these 15 guys," Hershleder says...
...lifeguards in the Poconos and then in 1955 started in the mail room at New York City's William Morris Agency. Since 1974, they've been partners in Shapiro/West & Associates, a firm based in Beverly Hills, Calif., that produces films and TV shows and has managed such performers as Reiner, Jerry Seinfeld and the late Andy Kaufman...
Shapiro says The Bronx Boys started as "a record for our kids and grandkids to show them who we were, where we came from and what we valued." But when Shapiro's client--and uncle--Reiner heard about it, "he said he had to come," says Shapiro. "They gave him a mike, and he spontaneously interviewed everyone...
...home, one of Germany's biggest dilemmas is how to cope with the economic consequences of an aging population. "You're going to face a problem in the social-security system, because you have fewer people paying in and more people taking money out," says Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Klingholz says the solution is to increase immigration. A new immigration law will allow some 200,000 immigrants--highly skilled economic migrants and asylum seekers--into the country each year...