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Enter Laughing. Carl Reiner's autobiographical novel about a stage-struck Jewish boy's first taste of ham was one of the delights of Broadway in 1963, thanks to Joseph Stein's knowing dramatization and to a winning performance by Alan Arkin as the fumbling hero. Now Reiner has directed a film version that sticks closely to the words of the play but destroys much of its sly insight into the dawning of awareness in darkest Bronx...
...COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Thirteen first-ranking comedy stars bring back the routines that made them famous. Bob Newhart reverts to his hilarious role as "The Driving Instructor," Shelley Berman repeats "Is Your Mommy Home?" and Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks revive their "2,000-Year-Old Man." Phyllis Diller, to absolutely no one's surprise, just does what comes naturally...
Wednesday, April 5 SID CAESAR, IMOGENE COCA, CARL REINER, HOWARD MORRIS SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Stars of the oldtimer "Your Show of Shows" come back to spoof rock 'n' roll groups, the Paris tourist and Italian opera. The Billy Williams Quartet comes with them...
...Karajan." More to the point, everybody knows that it is Bing who calls the tunes at the Met. Great conductors usually have egos to match, and the inevitable collision between Bing and the baton men caused such autocratic maestros as George Szell and the late Fritz Reiner to boycott the house...
...Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming." In an isolated old house on Gloucester Island, somewhere off the New England coast, an ordinary American comedy writer (Carl Reiner) is breakfasting with his wife (Eva Marie Saint), ignoring his young son, and dreaming of his return to ulcerization. Vacation is about over, but the excitement has just begun, for some dark and menacing creatures have emerged from the surf. Even as Reiner bolts his toast, one is wheezing, squeaking and sniffling around in the garage outside...