Actor Daryl Sabara talks with Kid Reporters Nia Mariso and Ethan White. (Photo: Jen Boggs)

Tuesday, May 2—It was a beautiful spring day in New York City for the movie premiere of Keeping Up With the Steins at the Tribeca Film Festival. The producer, writer, director, and stars were all on hand to promote the comedy.

The first person to come down the red carpet was Doris Roberts, who plays the grandmother, Rose Fiedler. She said that her role in Keeping Up With the Steins was nothing like her character in Everybody Loves Raymond. "This woman is very nice," Roberts said of her character. "This woman is very caring and loving. She's a great grandma. She keeps her mouth shut."

Next was Daryl Sabara, who plays Benjamin Fiedler. I asked him if he'd gotten any ideas for his own bar mitzvah from this movie.

"This movie definitely convinced me not to have a huge party, even though I didn't want one anyway," he said. "The movie taught me that it's about responsibility and family."

In the movie the dad jokes about getting "17 cent" to play at his son's bar mitzvah, so I asked Daryl if he was going to get a big name performer for his own party. He laughed. "That would be pretty cool," he said. "But I think who we [he and his twin brother, Evan] got was a little cooler." (He didn't reveal who that was!)

Then came the father-and-son duo, Garry Marshall and his son, Scott. Scott, who directed the movie, said he enjoyed telling his dad what to do. I asked Garry Marshall, who plays the grandfather in the movie, why he always had to have a basketball court on the set of the movie. He said that it relieves stress.

Actor Jeremy Piven talks with Kid Reporters Nia Mariso and Ethan White. (Photo: Jen Boggs)

Jeremy Piven hit the red carpet last. He guzzled a large cup of coffee between questions from reporters. He told us he needed the caffeine because he hadn't slept in a while. "Don't drink coffee," he advised. "I didn't drink coffee until I was 27. Just say no!"

Was Piven's own bar mitzvah anything like the one in the movie? Not at all, he said.

"I grew up in a theater family in a very eclectic part of Chicago," he explained. "My bar mitzvah was in the basement."

He said he hadn't gone to too many bar mitzvahs when he was growing up, either.

"After this movie, though, I feel like I've lived like 13 bar-mitzvah lifetimes," he said.