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The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.

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Ivan Reitman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 27
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