![]() Playing Michael “Meathead” Stivic from 1971 to 1976 on the most watched television series of the time, Norman Lear’s All in the Family, Rob followed in the footsteps of his comedian-actor-producer father Carl Reiner and actress-singer mother, Estelle. He’d come from television, where the script is always changing and evolving as actors try new lines in real time during filming, often with a live audience. That’s when they switched the characters’ last names and made him Jewish and her Gentile instead.Īs for Harry, a long line of popular young actors at the time turned down the role, including Tom Hanks, Albert Brooks, Michael Keaton, and most painfully, Richard Dreyfuss.īut with Rob, it was a whole new world. In the beginning, she recalled, Sally was to be Jewish and Harry was to be Gentile, but then “Rob fell in love with so Elizabeth McGovern was going to play it,” Nora said. Just as Nichols had done, Rob invited Nora to be a part of the production process. Like their protagonists, getting the timing right was key. Nora worked with Nichols on making Heartburn the movie in 1986.įor Rob and Nora, it was a lot of hurry up and wait for a number of years. ![]() ![]() In the years that passed, Rob went off to make two cult-classics: Stand by Me (1986) and The Princess Bride (1987). Nora owned Sally, and Rob owned Harry, and that meant they could both be invested in their story.
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