about the movie, i picture steve carrell as one of the characters. reading it, i was alternating for that character. any idea who willpeckerman? who would you like to? >> brad pitt. >> i knew that was your answer. [laughter] >> thank god it is radio. >> alan is the film guy. >> i just hope this does better than the last time i had a book that was going to be a movie. i am not sure i want to be connected with it an alan zweibel film. a number of years ago, our son adam was about seven years old. he was at that age where at the dinner table, he would look across at me and my wife, and just an expression on his face, you could tell what he was thinking. like, i could do better than these two, you know? so i wrote this little novella, a fable about a 9-year-old boy who declared himself a free agent from his parents. he went all over the world offering his services as a son to the highest bidding mothers and fathers. it did ok. i send it to rob reiner for a blurb. he called me and said i am and director now. he did "stand by me," "when harry met sally," a

about the movie, i picture steve carrell as one of the characters. reading it, i was alternating for that character. any idea who willpeckerman? who would you like to? >> brad pitt. >> i knew that was your answer. [laughter] >> thank god it is radio. >> alan is the film guy. >> i just hope this does better than the last time i had a book that was going to be a movie. i am not sure i want to be connected with it an alan zweibel film. a number of years ago, our son adam was about seven years old. he was at that age where at the dinner table, he would look across at me and my wife, and

. >> shall we say with steve carrel said about you?ely man. >> and you've been with the same woman for 30 years? >> yes. >> lovely, smart, attractive, long-suffering woman. why haven't you married her yet? >> well, we are, really. we are. >> and yet, you're not. >> well, i mean, we've -- we share everything. >> do you think you ever will? >> never say "never." there's no reason that we're not getting married other than there's no point. i'm not digging my heels in saying we can't get married. there's just no point. we don't want our families to meet. that's the thing. >> how do you show your romantic side? >> i don't know. should it be -- is there a definition? i think i am a romantic. i think i'm very romantic 'i mean, the fact that we've been together for 30 years. we're soulmates. no one knows as much about me. no one loves me as much. and that's mutual. i don't think you can get morrow man tick than that. i think that buying someone a card once a year is irrelevant. it doesn't do it for me. that's not romance. that's a tick on a ca