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  The Guardian

  Mel Brooks on losing the loves of his life: ‘People know how good Carl Reiner was, but not how great’

  From best friend Carl Reiner to wife Anne Bancroft, the great comic has had to face great loss. But even in the middle of a pandemic, the 95-year-old is still finding ways to laugh

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  The Independent

  Q&A: Mel Brooks, 95, is still riffing

  Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir

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  The Guardian

  Mel Brooks announces his first memoir at the age of 95

  Mel Brooks announces his first memoir at the age of 95. All About Me!, to be published on 30 November, will cover everything from the film director’s military service to his long comedic partnership with Carl Reiner

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  The Telegraph

  Why Dick Van Dyke was the true marvel of WandaVision

  “If someone from the UK sees me, they are on me like a pack of wolves,” joked Dick Van Dyke, who always accepted the mockery over his role in Mary Poppins with good grace, admitting he’d delivered “the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema”. Even so, the man who played Bert the chimney sweep remains indubitably popular. Paul Bettany, the London-born actor who plays Vision in WandaVision, said he drew on the American, one of his “favourite stars”, for inspiration in the hit Disne

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  The Guardian

  Work is not just about ‘output’ but shared endeavour. Let’s not turn our back on the office

  Work is not just about ‘output’ but shared endeavour. Let’s not turn our back on the office. The virtual workplace is no substitute for real people gathering and being creative

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  The Guardian

  The best interviewees? Give me an actor in their winter years with a few scores to settle

  The best interviewees? Give me an actor in their winter years with a few scores to settleOlder stars make the best subjects, and Carl Reiner will live on in my pantheon of greats

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  The Independent

  Carl Reiner: Giant of American comedy who didn’t need the spotlight

  Carl Reiner was one of the most influential and prolific figures in post-war American comedy, writing, producing, directing and acting over seven decades.In a career rich with distinction, one would have to single out his eight-year association with Sid Caesar in the 1950s, the long-running Dick Van Dyke Show, which he produced, wrote and appeared in throughout the 1960s, and the four films he later directed with Steve Martin – The Jerk, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Man with Two Brains and All

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  The Independent

  Francis Bacon triptych fetches $84m during live-streamed auction

  A Francis Bacon triptych has sold for $84.6m at auction.The artwork was sold during a live-streamed event organised by Sotheby’s on Monday.

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  The Telegraph

  Why Carl Reiner loved Mel Brooks: 'If he doesn’t come over, I don’t know what to do with myself'

  For the past decade, comedian and director Mel Brooks would drive from his home in Santa Monica to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills to have dinner and watch television with Carl Reiner, who died on Monday at the age of 98. The pair had been best friends for seven decades. “I got friendship, love and free food,” Brooks joked. Even social distancing requirements could not dampen their desire to talk every day, and the long-time pals found ways to keep up their routine during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Veteran TV performer, writer and director Carl Reiner dies aged 98

  He created The Dick Van Dyke Show.

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