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Estelle Reiner, Orderer of Orgasms, Passes On at 94

1:42AM STV | Estelle Reiner, the woman who 20 years ago set the enduring standard for cameos by directors’ mums, has died at age 94. Wife of Carl, mother of Meathead, she rocketed to fame in 1989 as a witness to Meg Ryan’s epic fake orgasm in her son’s film When Harry Met Sally; her quip, “I’ll have what she’s having,” later ranked #33 among AFI’s Top 100 movie quotations. She’d previously appeared in small parts opposite Steve Martin (The Man With Two Brains) and Dom DeLuise (Fatso), also sustaining a late-blooming cabaret singing career on the side. Lesser known fact: Rob Reiner tells the New York Times today that his mother was the basis for Mary Tyler Moore’s Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Today, however, we remember her lunch preferences. We, too, will have what she’s having. Estelle Reiner, 94, Comedy Matriarch, Is Dead [NYT] More »

The Stanley Cup Had A Way More Fabulous, Celebrity-Filled Fourth Of July Than You Did

10:25AM Seth | The Stanley Cup—aka Canada’s Holy Grail, from which, legend has it, one sip of Labatt Blue renders the drinker immortal—took some time off from its current damnation home in Detroit to take in some local sunshine and glamour. Starting in Manhattan Beach at the home of former San Jose Shark Brad Stuart, the cup then bounced into its rental (a convertible Sebring) and hightailed it down to Chris Chelios’s place in Malibu. It stopped for breakfast at Coogie’s Beach Café, where a cup-struck Rob Reiner bashfully approached it and requested a photograph. But it was once it arrived at Bally’s gym owner John Wildman’s annual Fourth of July party that it really started getting caught up in the Hollywood fast lane, rubbing handles with the likes of Detroit’s own Kid Rock, David Spade, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Liotta, and Jeremy Piven. The Stanley Cup Journal blog reports: More »

Trade Roundup: Hillary Locks Up Crucial Meathead Endorsement

5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Rob Reiner officially endorses Hillary Clinton, immediately embracing her campaign’s talking points on Barack Obama: “Based on the experience I have had in politics, and I have been on the front lines in a lot of these fights, I came around to realising that we do need the most experienced and most qualified person to run the country.” [Variety] The much-anticipated premiere-night Nielsen deathmatch between NBC’s Bionic Woman remake and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy spin-off is won by Bionic; meanwhile, Kid Nation dropped off from its unspectacular debut numbers of last week. [THR] Mark your calendars, Michael Bay fans, because giant fucking robots are coming again, eventually: Paramount and DreamWorks have staked out June 26th, 2009 for Transformers 2. And the project stays even if Spielberg and his pals go. [Variety] Bonnie Hunt is getting a daytime talk show. [THR] And on the development battlefront, NBC and ABC set up competing, Famesque projects about young people chasing their performing arts dreams in NY. [Variety] More »