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(4,674 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,537 posts)Croney
(4,674 posts)TNNurse
(6,931 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)democrank
(11,112 posts)Thank you for posting this, Arkansas Granny.
7962
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(81,556 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 21, 2019, 03:49 PM - Edit history (1)
Went to his house to interview him for some upcoming project. He showed me into the living room. We sat on the sofa and talked while I recorded the conversation on my tape recorder. He was very very dear and delightfully funny as Id expected, me being a longtime fan.
Then he wanted to take a break. Want an egg cream? he asked. I said sure! He stood up and walked over to the corner of the room to the built-in bar. Stepping behind it, he proceeded to get out the seltzer water and the U-Bet chocolate syrup. Stirred it up in a pitcher with a long-handled spoon. Then he lifted the spoon to his mouth to taste it (thats the way Mom and Dad did it when they wanted to test how something tasted - what you do when the recipe is in your mind or your past experiences). He clearly approved of what hed just brewed. Stuck the spoon back into the pitcher again and stirred some more. Then poured two glasses and we toasted each other with an authentic chocolate egg cream.
And as chocolate egg creams go, it was, of course, delicious. Yet not quite as much so as the very idea of sharing an authentic chocolate egg cream with the likes of Carl Reiner. One that was personally made BY Carl Reiner!
The only thing missing from such an intoxicating moment was Mel Brooks.
Arkansas Granny
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(81,556 posts)Or give you a cooking lesson. I remember him doing a kind of play-by-play as he was mixing up our drinks, describing how you put this in - about this much - and then you stir it up like this, and add some of this, and then ...
I discovered Carl Reiner as a kid watching the Dick Van Dyke Show. Didnt know a lot about him back then and I was too young to have watched Your Show of Shows. I learned about The 2000 Year Old Man during college radio, and his other work beyond that. Still absolutely love pretty much ANYTHING by Mel Brooks, and anything by Mel Brooks usually had the Reiner touch in there somewhere too.
And frankly, I dont remember much about the interview with him, but that moment at the bar drinking home made egg cream with him - I will NEVER forget that!
And it was delicious, too! Thats one memory that quite literally leaves a good taste in the mouth.
7962
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(81,556 posts)When you cover the entertainment beat, the craziest - and most mind-blowing stuff can happen at the most random moments. This was like the extra treat you take home in a doggie bag after a great meal.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)A national treasure.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)spanone
(135,915 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)......I see the Trump Presidency as more the culmination of a festering disease that's been here a long time in America.
We were lied into the Viet Nam War. Lied into the Iraq War. The Republicans have been denying human caused climate change for a long time with a "both sides" analysis in the MSM. Deregulation of the banking system, and the idea that cutting taxes on the 1% helps the rest of us is all based on lies, spin and more lies. People of Color could tell Carl a lot about systemmic racism in America----creating another kind of immense lie that is 400 years old.
Lies in many ways, mixed with the distraction of entertainment, is the miasma Americans have been breathing for years---until it results in the monster that is Trump.
Trump is shockingly new and different and yet, at the same time---inevitable-- given our history of denial, racism and arrogance on the world stage.