A sad loss.
ETA: Not arson as I assumed from the involvement of firefighters, but his son has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
For those who may not recognise the name, Rob Reiner directed “This is Spinal Tap”, “The Princess Bride”, and “When Harry Met Sally”, among others.
A great comedic talent.
Also, a great champion of liberal causes.
And his mother (turn on the sound)
Not sure where you are getting arson out of that. Fire departments are also first responders.
The BBC report said that a homicide investigation had been opened.
I caught Sky News briefly earlier and they said alleged stabbing.
I thought it was about the guy from Jaws originally… The “we’re gonna need a bigger boat” actor.
That’s Roy Scheider.
I read or heard that their son was suspected of stabbing them. That would be very sad.
I just assumed arson by the fact that the fire brigade were there and it was said to be homicide.
We will see in due course.
Yes, I was relieved to find it wasn’t him. Then saddened to find he’s already dead.
That is news to me. But his father Carl, was a great comic actor in the 50s and 60s. I would say that Carl was more famous as a comedian than Rob , but Rob was a great director and producer. His acting career was pretty much limited to playing Archie Bunker’'s son on ‘‘All in the Family” which was game changing TV in the states from the late 60s to early 70s. I probably watched every episode.
Over the years he has often talked about it and how nervous he was with his mother there! She plays it beautifully dead pan.
From Reddit:
Nora Ephron wrote the original deli scene without any orgasm talk. But then in discussion with Rob Reiner and co-producer Andrew Scheinman she told them that most women sometimes fake orgasms, so Rob and Andrew wrote a conversation about fake orgasms and added it to the scene in the script. And then Meg Ryan came up with the idea of them not just discussing it, but Sally actually faking one aloud in the restaurant. And then Billy Crystal came up with the final “I’ll have what she’s having” punchline.
Here’s what Ephron wrote in her intro to the published screenplay:
And much as I would like to take full credit for what Sally says in the movie, the fact is that many of her best moments went into the script after the three of us began work on it together. “We told you about men,” Rob and Andy said to me one day. “Now tell us about women.” So I said, “Well, we could do something about sex fantasies.” And I wrote the scene about Sally’s sex fantasy. “What else?” they said. “Well,” I said, “women send flowers to themselves in order to fool their boyfriends into thinking they have other suitors.” And I wrote the scene about Marie sending flowers to herself. “What else?” Rob and Andy said. “Well,” I said, “women fake orgasms.” “Really?” they said. “Yes,” I said. There was a long pause. I think I am correct in remembering the long pause. “All women?” they said. “Most women,” I said. “At one time or another.”
A few days later, Rob called. He and Andy had written a sequence about faking orgasms and they wanted to insert it at the end of the scene that was known (up to that time) as the andirons scene. He read it over the phone. I loved it. It went into the script. A few weeks later, we had our first actors’ reading, and Meg Ryan, who by then was our Sally, suggested that Sally actually fake an orgasm in the delicatessen at the end of the scene. We loved it. It went into the script. And then Billy Crystal, our Harry, provided the funniest of the dozens of funny lines he brought with him to the movie; he suggested that a woman customer turn to a waiter, when Sally’s orgasm was over, and say: “I’ll have what she’s having.” The line, by the way, was delivered in the movie by Estelle Reiner, Rob’s mother. So there you have it—a perfect example of how The Process works on the occasions when it works.
As was his father, Carl Reiner. So much talent in that family gene pool. A true loss.
Trump’s classy reaction on Truth Social:
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”’
Well, at least he got an RIP at the end…could have been worse.
Trump can fuck off. And I make no apology for my use of that language.
He’s blaming their deaths on the “fact” that they have “Trump Derangement Syndrome”? Really?
It just HAS to be all about him doesn’t it.
He has no style, class or empathy.
Is that for real?? Wtf!
The son has been arrested.
Thank you that clarifies it, I have edited my original post.