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b'For this pairing, we\'re saluting someone whose films we\'ve reviewed several times on this podcast. We lost director/producer Ivan Reitman on February 12th of 2022. And so, we\'re dedicating this pairing to some of the few films Reitman has produced and directed that we haven\'t already reviewed! First up, the movie that established the tradition that would become known as the "Bill Murray speech," it\'s 1979\'s "Meatballs!" Directed by Reitman, and written by Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg, Janis Allen, and Harold Ramis, Murry stars as Tripper, the head counselor at Camp Northstar, who adopts a young loner, Rudy Gerner (played by Chris Makepeace) and helps him survive his first summer at camp. Also starring Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Kristine DeBell, Sarah Torgov, Jack Blum, Keith Knight, Cindy Girling, Todd Hoffman, Margot Pinvidic, and Matt Craven, this film established the genre of the hijinks-filled screwball summer camp comedy! And with a fantastic score by renowned composer Elmer Bernstein, you have a classic that still stands as an entertaining and amusing story in the 21st century!'