A well-regarded writer for both TV and movies in the 70s–his curriculum vitae includes The Carol Burnett Show and Mel Brooks’ 1977 Hitchcock parody High Anxiety (in which he cameoed as Dennis, the high-strung bellboy), Barry Levinson made the leap into the director’s chair with 1982’s Diner, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in late-50s Baltimore.

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