European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile most of Carl Reiners work these Days is behind the scenes viewers see on the Carl Reiners comedy show keeps going on by Bob Thomas associated press every show business career has a turning and Carl Reiners came when he joined televisions immortal your show of that when he realized he want Cut out to be a top by Reiner had established himself As a rising Young comic in night clubs and in such Broadway shows As Call me mister and inside then he encountered Sid i had been doing a double talk routine in making it sound As if i knew foreign Reiner when i heard Sid do his foreign i realized i would never be the top banana that he i was Happy to be one of the without that Carl Reiner might be playing second leads in to he has contributed a Rich vein of comedy in television the Dick Van Dyke show and films Godl dead men dont Wear All of his summer John Candy in his first starring is a lat summer release from Carl Reiner at 63 is the picture of a Man at peace with he is in demand to help fill the unending need for film he has been contentedly married since 1941 to Estelle who has lately resumed her singing he is proud of his three children write artist artist Lucas and actor director who blossomed Forth As a filmmaker with this is spinal son of a Bronx Reiner started in summer Stock before world War ii and acted with Maurice Evans army troupe throughout the another go was Howard who also joined your show of Reiner was Content to play straight Man to the wildly talented joining Neil Larry Mel Brooks and others of the gifted writing i became something of a Carl said in an Sid listened to whereas he sometimes didst listen to i had the last word with Sid just before we went and sometimes that was that pretty much what the director does he Butts in on other Peoples a director is like a father you can Tell All your troubles Hes a a busybody with his transition to films came when he and Mel Brooks performed their famed year old Man routine at a Hollywood we were a said Joe Fields said we should make a record of Edward Robinson came up and said he wanted to do it As a George Burns said Mel and i had better put it on record or hed steal then Ross the got the idea i should write a Reiner wrote the thrill of it All and the Art of love for then in 1967 made his debut As a director with enter based on his autobiographical novel about a Youthful his other films include the wheres Poppa the Jerk and the Man with two after a string of films with Steve Reiner was asked by Paramount if he would like to direct John the rotund Canadian who first attracted notice on sctt second City i had seen John on so Tyvand i thought he was tremendously said i also thought he was wonderful in Paramount sent me the summer rental script and do it if youll do when i had a meeting with i found out they had said id do it if he did working with John was the same As with we were like two people who spoke their own language in we could understand each other without saying a that natural because we came from the same kind of he with me with your show of this was a real Challenge for John his first starring and i mean he is virtually in every Candy portrays an overworked air traffic controller seeking a quiet Beach vacation with his Only to be harassed by Richard rip torn and a series of although Hes a regular on the to talk Carl Reiner rarely works As an actor these except for vignettes in his own he Hast even donned his Toupee for a few i played Repetto in Faerie tale theater for but that about he i miss and ill still do it when in he  find a role in summer rental but he still makes an appearance he sings Tangerine on the 20 stripes Magazine August