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Ivan Reitman: Years
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Reitman was up for a second Emmy for The Late Shift, which chronicled the true story behind the late night television wars between The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The David Letterman Show. After impersonating him for years, Ottawa-born Rich Little got to play Johnny Carson in the made-for-television movie.
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Reitman continued exploring film throughout his teens. As a 15-year-old, he made an award-winning public service announcement about AIDS that aired on national TV. He ... made another onscreen appearance in “Dave†(1993). The political satire starred Kevin Kline as both the U.S. President and his spitting image, a down-to-Earth small business owner who takes over when the President slips into a coma. Of all of Ivan Reitman’s movies, “Dave†(made during his son’s formative teen years) was closest in tone and style to the younger Reitman’s later films.
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In 1996, Reitman was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles, a television adaptation of the Broadway play. In the same year he took on the seemingly impossible task of producing Space Jam, a combination live action/animation movie starring Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan. Another comic pairing up came in 1997's Father's Day with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams.
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One thing that has changed dramatically since Reitman last roamed the streets of Manhattan as a filmmaker is the level of security that blankets the city. In the 17 years that have transpired between Ghostbusters II and Girlfriend, the Big Apple has had a big bite taken out of it.
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