“[Reiner]'s comedic touch was beyond compare, his love of getting the music of the dialogue just right, and his sharpening of the edge of a drama was simply elegant. For the actors, he loved them. For ...

“After these first two movies, I get a meeting with Dawn Steel, who was the head of Paramount at the time,” Reiner recounted during the Directors on Directing panel with Paul Feig at San Diego ...