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Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, and author. During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he acted on and contributed sketch material for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, starring Sid Caesar, writing alongside Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. Reiner teamed up with Brooks and together they released several iconic comedy albums beginning with 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (1960). Reiner was best known as the creator and producer of, and a writer and actor on, The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1965). Reiner formed a comedy duo with Brooks in "The 2000 Year Old Man" and acted in such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and the Ocean's film series (2001–2007). He co-wrote and directed some of Steve Martin's first and most successful films, including The Jerk (1979), and also directed such comedies as Where's Poppa? (1970), Oh, God! (1977), and All of Me (1984). Reiner appeared in dozens of television specials from 1967 to 2000, and was a guest star on television series from the 1950s until his death. He also voiced characters in animated films and television series, including the TV series Father of the Pride (2004–2005), in which he voiced Sarmoti, and was a reader for books on tape. He wrote more than two dozen books, mostly in his later years. He was the recipient of many awards and honors, including 11 Emmy Awards, one Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Reiner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A biopic about the early career of businessman Jerry Jones. From his unsuccessful beginnings as a pizza parlor guru, to his monumental purchase and complete reboot of the Dallas Cowboys Football team. After graduating from college in 1965, Jones borrowed a million dollars from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters union to open up a string of Shakey's Pizza Parlor restaurants in Missouri. This venture quickly failed, and Jones was given a job at his father's insurance company Modern Security Life of Springfield, Missouri. A few months later Jones tried to climb his way back into the driver seat of an entrepreneur career, but quickly failed again when he was unsuccessful at buying the San Diego Chargers. Jones finally reached success, whenever he opened his own oil and gas exploration business in Arkansas, Jones Oil and Land Lease. On February 25, 1989, Jones shocked the world when he purchased the Dallas Cowboys from H.R. "Bum" Bright for $140 million. Soon after the purchase, Jones fired longtime coach Tom Landry, and hired his former friend, Jimmy Johnson, as the new coach. The film follows the heavily criticized Jerry Jones throughout his extremely controversial career. The ending scene of the film fast forwards from the 1990's to 2009, where Jerry Jones speaks at the opening ceremony of the new Cowboys Stadium. Based on the book, King of the Cowboys: The Life and Times of Jerry Jones, by Jim Dent.
