Beverly Hills

Did you know? To the world Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks were inseparable for seven decades. In Reiner's final years Brooks came over nearly every evening: dinner together, "Jeopardy!", then a movie. Reiner's very last evening, June 29, 2020, was the same – in front of the TV, beside his oldest friend.

Did you know? When Peter Falk was three, his right eye was removed because of a tumor – for the rest of his life he wore a glass eye that gave him his unmistakable gaze. As a boy playing baseball, after an umpire called him out, he plucked out the glass eye, handed it over and said: "Here, I think you need this more than I do."

Did you know? Before Billy Wilder won six Oscars in Hollywood, he scraped by as a paid ballroom dance partner — a "taxi dancer" — in 1920s Berlin.