Rob Reiner Death

As a lifetime baseball fan and Dodgers fanatic, Rob Reiner would appreciate the following statistic more than anyone: He began his career by going seven-for-seven. In his first seven at-bats, he had seven hits. No, not just hits, achievements. Consider the following list: This Is Spin…

“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night,” Michelle Obama said of Rob and Michele Reiner on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight. The Reiners were found slain from apparent knife wounds in their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon. Late last night, the Reiners' 32-year-old son Nick was arrested…

While he is remembered mostly for his movie classics like This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men and The American President, Rob Reiner also was largely responsible for a TV classic, the 1989 NBC comedy series Seinfeld. A day after…

The worlds of entertainment and politics have been mourning iconic director-actor Rob Reiner and wife Michele Reiner after the couple’s killing yesterday, with tributes pouring in from former collaborators, friends and governmental figures. Now, late-night figures are adding to the chorus of voices…

The 1992 courtroom drama A Few Good Men goes down as Rob Reiner’s highest-grossing movie at $243 million worldwide, but also his most Oscar nominated with four. Featuring a knockout ensemble including Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, stand-up comedian Kevin Pollak in a breakout serious role, Kevin Bacon…

Sally Struthers, the Gloria Stivic to Rob Reiner’s Michael “Meathead” Stivic on All in the Family, weighed in on the latter’s death over the weekend, telling Deadline, “There are no words. This is beyond devastating and my heart is with their family.”  Struthers starred in 157 of 202 episodes of…

Less than a day after Rob Reiner and his wife were slain in their Los Angeles home, Donald Trump has attacked The American President director. In fact, Trump doubled down Monday on the killing of Reiner, attacking the acclaimed filmmaker who the LAPD says was murdered by one of his…

The LAPD plans to present its conclusions in the killing of Rob and Michele Reiner to the L.A. County District Attorney’s office tomorrow. At the same time, with the director’s son Nick Reiner in custody for murder, the police have changed the suspect’s status to no bail. “As a result of the…

I found myself this morning typing the words “Rob Reiner Appreciation” and first, not believing I have to do this on such a sad occasion, but also due to the irony I felt because as a huge fan of this man and his work I have often felt he was never…

UPDATED with latest: Colleagues, friends, fans across Hollywood are aghast over the sudden deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner, who were found slain in their Brentwood, CA home Sunday. Several actors who starred in Reiner’s cinematic canon have shared their sympathies including This…

Kathy Bates, who broke out in Rob Reiner’s 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery, as obsessed fan Anna Wilkes, a role which delivered her a Best Actress Oscar, exclaims, “He changed the course of my life.” Reiner and his wife Michele were found at their Brentwood home yesterday with several…

UPDATE, with video: Whoopi Goldberg gave an emotional tribute to her late friend and Ghosts of Mississippi director Rob Reiner on today’s episode of The View, and followed it with an outraged response to Donald Trump’s self-serving statement that the slain Hollywood icon died as a result of “his…