February 25
Wednesday, 7 PM

Depending on whom you talk to, Carl Reiner is best known as a co-star on the legendary television program, "Your Show of Show"… and as the creator and co-star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"… or as The Interviewer of "The 2000 Year Old Man"…or a director of feature films, including "The Jerk," "All of Me," "Oh, God!," and "Where's Poppa" … or as father of actor-writer-director-producer Rob Reiner and husband of jazz vocalist Estelle Reiner…or as the recipient of twelve Emmy Awards…or…

His feature film credits as a director include: "The Comic," four films with Steve Martin; and "The One and Only," with Henry Winkler; "Sibling Rivalry," with Kirstie Alley. His motion picture acting credits include a starring role in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians are Coming," and featured or cameo roles in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," and "The Slums of Beverly Hills."

His first novel, "Enter Laughing," was published in 1958, and chronicles Reiner's frustrations as a young machinist helper in the millinery trade and his eventual entry into show business. The book subsequently became the basis for a Broadway play and a feature film of the same name. His second novel, "All Kinds of Love," was published in 1993. His third, "Continue Laughing" in 1995. "How Paul Robeson Saved My Life," a book of short stories, was published in 1999. His latest book, "My Anecdotal Life," was published in April 2003 and his new children's book, "Tell Me a Scary Story," will be published in Fall 2003.

Annie Reiner is a Renaissance woman-- a poet, playwright, painter and psychotherapist. "Beyond Rhyme and Reason" is her fourth book of poems. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is also the author of a book of short stories, "This Nervous Breakdown is Driving Me Crazy." Her first dramatic work "Mirage à Trois," was produced in 1999 at the Santa Monica Playhouse. Comedy legend Mel Brooks wrote about this play, "If Freud, Prandello and Groucho Marx sat down to write a play together, this would be it. Insightful, imaginative and witty."

She is also the author of four children's books, which she also illustrated. One of these, "Dancing in the Park," won the Parent's Choice Golden Award for Best Children's Audio of 1996. An accomplished painter, Reiner has had four one-woman shows of her work in Los Angeles galleries from 1986-1998. In addition to hr literary and artistic pursuits, Ms. Reiner maintains a psychoanalytic private practice and has published her writings on psychoanalysis in the Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, and in a psychoanalytic anthology entitled Work and Its Inhibitions.

Her most recent play, "Family Drama," will be produced in Chicago in September, 2004.