does one actually direct Don Rickles, or do they just let him loose?
BS: I got in trouble for that. He’s a dear friend of mine now, and we’re very close. I really love him. It’s hard not to. But I’d turned two cameras on him and just let him talk, and I said that we’d just cut it together afterward. And everybody got mad at me. The director, George Folsey, said, “Ah, I can make something out of it.” But I always knew he could make something out of it. I mean, you shoot two hours of straight footage of a man riffing for a two-minute monologue, you’re going to wind up with something as long as you can get his hands and his energy to match. And George Folsey’s a masterful editor and was able to do it. But I got in trouble. I shot the entire week’s budget of film that day shooting Don Rickles, and I got in trouble. BE: But wasn’t it worth it for you, ultimately, just to watch him? BS: Oh, I love him. Love him. My dear friends Jeff Garlin and Jeff Ross…for Jeff Garlin’s birthday, we asked him what he wanted, and he said, “I want you and Jeff Ross to come wit
