Film director CARL REINER. He was a writer and appeared in Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." He's best-known to baby boomer audiences as the creator and writer of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He also staged several Broadway plays, including "Enter Laughing," which is based on his novel and which he later adapted to the screen. Since then, he has concentrated on film direction, specifically comedies. His films include "Where's Poppa?" "The Jerk," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," "All of Me" "Oh God," and "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool." (REBROADCAST FROM 3/2/89)Librettist, poet, playwright JACK LARSON. He got his start as an actor, playing Jimmy Olsen, the cub-reporter on the original "Superman" TV show. He was the librettist for "Lord Byron," an opera by Virgil Thompson (Koch International Classics, 1992). He's also written the versed plays, "The Candied House," and "Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul," and he has been a film producer. (REBROADACAST FROM 4/
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