If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017)

Jack and I loved this delightful documentary in which Carl Reiner talks with other nonagenarians to prove how vital they still are.

Reiner (born in 1922, covered in The Jerk) talks with Mel Brooks (born in 1926, mentioned in Mr. Peabody & Sherman, won his Oscar for writing The Producers (1967), and some of his best writing/directing/acting includes 139 episodes of Your Show of Shows (1950-54), 138 of Get Smart (1965-70), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), History of the World: Part I (1981), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), The Producers stage musical (2001), and four 2004 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm), Stan Lee (born in 1922, last blogged for Avengers: Infinity War), Dick Van Dyke (born in 1925, his Dick Van Dyke Show was my favorite when I was a kid--he made 158 episodes (1961-66) and 72 of The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971-74) and I also loved his work in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Mary Poppins (1964--and he'll be in the 2018 remake), Divorce American Style (1967), and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), to name a few), Kirk Douglas (born 1916, Oscar-nominated for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Lust for Life (1956), and known for Spartacus (1960), Seven Days in May (1964), Tough Guys (1986--I had a little uncredited job on that picture), and Greedy (1994), just to name a few), Fyvush Finkel (1922-2016, profiled in A Serious Man), Norman Lear (born 1922, Oscar winner for writing Divorce American Style (1967), his other work includes 208 episodes of All in the Family (1971-79), 135 of Sanford and Son (1972-77), 324 of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (January 1976-July 1977!), 48 of Fernwood Tonight (1977), 141 of Maude (1972-78), 133 of Good Times (1974-79), and 253 of The Jeffersons (1975-1985)), Betty White (also 1922, covered in The Proposal), and many more.

Directed by Danny Gold and written by Gold and Michael Mayhew (both new to me though they're not newcomers), this is available to HBO subscribers and, I imagine, will be on Netflix eventually.

We saw it the day after seeing RBG (a youngster, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in 1933) and heartily recommend it, along with 100% of Rotten Tomatoes' critics (I say "Bah!" to the audience average of 63%).