I met my hero Carl Reiner in a sushi bar on Sunset and Gower many years ago. I thanked him for his movie “The Man With Two Brains” and for his message that what is truly beautiful is on the inside – a hard thing to hold onto as the only (and very overweight) woman in the writer’s room of a sitcom in production next door. He took my hand and said “my dear, you are absolutely beautiful inside and out. And funny, too!” That was the day I stopped being “the girl in the room” and for the first time ever, fully and confidently claimed my seat at the writer’s table. Thank you, Mr. Reiner. May you rest in joy and laughter.
