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In recent years, there has been much discussion on the topic of nepo babies -- the children of famous and powerful people finding their way into important roles in Hollywood or business. Perhaps, had the term been around in 1971, when Rob Reiner was cast as Michael "Meathead" Stivic on All in the Family, that accusation could have been directed at him. His father, Carl Reiner, was the creator of the Dick Van Dyke Show and a member of what has to be one of the greatest writer's rooms of all time, on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, which included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Joseph Stein (who would go on to write Fiddler on the Roof, among other things), and a half a dozen other comedy, Broadway, and film legends.