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Estelle Reiner

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* The jazz singer, who also is Carl Reiner’s wife and Rob Reiner’s mom, performs Friday at LunaPark.

Movie Night: What we like to do is have an inauspicious dinner, like at the Stage Deli or the Chinese restaurant Yin Yang in Century City, and go to a movie with Mel and Anne Brooks. Of course we love comedies, but we like serious movies, too. The only ones I don’t like are the ones with lots of violence.

Fine Dining: If we’re having a good dinner, I like to go to a place like the Four Seasons Hotel because they have foie gras there, and that’s something I can’t get in most restaurants. But I usually follow it up with a vegetable plate. I also like the Grill in Beverly Hills. They have a huge menu and you can get almost anything you want.

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Party Time: We’ll have a party occasionally on Saturday night, and when we do we play games. It’s so un-Hollywood, I can’t tell you. One game is Celebrity, where you put a whole slew of names in a bowl and people pick one out and try to tell you in a couple of words who it is. We used to play a lot of Dictionary, where you make up definitions to a word. Now we play French Dictionary--it’s the same thing, but we figured you don’t really have to know the language.

Swing Time: It’s hard to get Carl to go out, but I see jazz people mostly, like at the Jazz Bakery or the Catalina Bar & Grill. I’ve been singing at LunaPark for a couple of years, about once a month. It’s a nice cabaret room where I do some standards and some other things that people don’t sing--raunchy songs like “One-Hour Mama” and “You Can Have My Husband, but Please Don’t Take My Man.”

Home Team: We also go to baseball games to see the Dodgers. We’ve had season tickets for years. Carl did the movie “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,” and he got paid with two tickets, so ever since we’ve been out in Los Angeles we’ve had the same two seats behind home plate.

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