
The pair then got into a spot of trouble when they produced The Columbus of Sex (1969) and were charged and fined with making and exhibiting an “obscene” film after showing it one time to the student body.

Fox acquired it and screened it in theaters before Peter Yates’ John and Mary (1969), starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow. He met Reitman for the first time in 1966 at McMaster University in his hometown, and he starred as a Mac freshman in the short film Orientation (1968), which Reitman wrote and directed. Survivors also include his wife, British Columbia native Ilona Herzberg, a producer on films including The River Wild, Evan Almighty, Waterworld, Rachel Getting Married and Feds, the 1988 comedy that starred Rebecca De Mornay and Mary Gross and was the only feature her husband directed in Hollywood.īorn in Hamilton, Ontario, Goldberg was the older son of Irwin, an aeronautical engineer, and Audrey, an artist.

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