Director Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele have been murdered by their grownup son Nick at their Los Angeles residence, in accordance with multiple reports. Per TMZ, the couple have been found Sunday afternoon (Dec. 14) and appeared to have “suffered lacerations per a knife.
The Los Angeles Police Division and Theft Murder Division are investigating. Nick Reiner reportedly struggled for years with drug habit and homelessness.
Rob Reiner, 78, was the son of legendary author/actor/director Carl Reiner. He starred from 1971-1978 because the lovable Michael “Meathead” Stivic on All within the Household, and went on to direct such beloved movies as Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Males and When Harry Met Sally. Nevertheless it was his stewardship of the pioneering 1984 rock’n’roll mockumetary This Is Spinal Faucet that cemented his place within the hearts of music followers.
Reiner directed, co-wrote and starred because the movie’s fictional director, Mary DiBergi, who chronicled a disastrous album launch and U.S. tour by fading U.Ok. rockers Spinal Faucet (Michael McKean, Christopher Visitor and Harry Shearer). The movie’s spot-on portrayal of rock’n’roll habits and clichés turned the stuff of legend — memorized on tour buses by bands all around the world and its dialog recited like Bible verse for many years ever since.
“We’re the primary technology that grew up on rock’n’roll — we love rock’n’roll! So to seek out that crease between paying homage and loving rock n’roll and on the identical time making enjoyable of it, that was a difficult line to stroll,” Reiner instructed Individuals earlier this yr. “Nearly the whole lot that occurs is taken from one thing that we both skilled with folks, as a result of within the late ’60s, the rock’n’roll world and the improv world, which is the place I come from, there was type of a cross-pollination there, so I used to be very a lot conscious of what goes on tour and what occurs, [and] we obtained tales from folks that we knew.”
A sequel, Spinal Faucet II: The Finish Continues, was launched in September and reunited Reiner with McKean, Visitor and Shearer, plus real-life musicians reminiscent of Paul McCartney and Elton John.
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