Paging Paul Reiser

12/24/1998 at 12:00 AM EST

Director Rob Reiner's new movie about marital discord, "The Story of Us," premiered last night at New York's Ziegfeld Theater. Its stars -- Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rita Wilson and Reiner himself -- were there, and Reiner gushingly introduced the two headliners, Willis and Pfeiffer, calling them "two actors who, I believe, are at the top of their game, who are doing the best work of their lives in this movie." Capping the gala evening (a fund-raiser for Reiner's and his wife Michelle's "I Am Your Child" charity, which draws attention to early childhood development), Reiner asked the crowd, "Is Paul Reiser here tonight? Somebody told me he was here. Is he here? If not, screw him! I don't care about him!"