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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.
Carl Reiner
Danny Whale
for Danny Whale in The Pines of Rome
Suggested by audreyhepburn2004
Set in a frozen Arctic landscape where aurora lights shine across the beautiful night sky. Introducing three Humpback Whales are about, Two big and one small and their little baby who appears to be feisty and loves to swim around and jump high out of the water The baby Humpback follows his parents to the surface where they jump and splash in and out of the Arctic waters until they rise out and fly except the baby Humpback. After a few jumps, he finally manages to get airborne and joins his parents. He suddenly spots a group of seagulls and decides to fly with them but instead makes them annoyed. The angry seagulls chase after until the Baby Humpback escapes into the water and becomes trapped inside a huge iceberg. Surrounded by frozen icy walls, the Baby Humpback appears unhurt but all alone in the dark icy caves. He begins to explore the cave searching for a way out. Beneath the cave's waters are many spiky icicles in every direction. He rises to the surface and sees his mother's shadow whose on the other side of the ice walls. The Baby Humpback desperately tries to get to her and follows his parent's shadows to a light. Once he swims inside it, he begins to float to where the light is shining from and is reunited with his parents. As the brightest star flashes, the three whales return to the waters and join a larger pod of humpback whales. Soon millions of humpbacks take to the sky and fly across a forest landscape to the top of the clouds. They fly towards a storm cloud where bright light is shining from it until finally, they rise out of the waters where the star shines like a night sun rise.
