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As you’ve definitely heard by now, legendary actor-director Rob Reiner and his spouse, Michele Singer, have been murdered at their dwelling in Brentwood on Sunday.
The couple’s 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested in connection together with his dad and mom’ deaths.
There’s nonetheless an ideal deal that we don’t find out about this horrific scenario, however because the investigation continues, Reiner’s many well-known buddies and collaborators are selecting to concentrate on his inventive and humanitarian legacy, quite than the grisly circumstances of his demise.
Hollywood A-listers pay tribute to a fallen legend
Over the course of his a long time within the trade, Reiner labored alongside lots of Hollywood’s greatest and brightest in movies as beloved and diverse as Stand By Me and A Few Good Males.
At present, lots of the stars with whom he collaborated took to social media to share recollections of a person who was as beloved for his kindness as for his expertise.
“I’m horrified listening to this horrible information. Completely devastated. I cherished Rob,” wrote Kathy Bates, who starred in Reiner’s movie Distress and acted alongside him in 1998’s Major Colours (by way of Individuals).
“He was sensible and type, a person who made movies of each style to problem himself as an artist. He additionally fought courageously for his political opinions. He modified the course of my life.”
“Love you, Rob. Sincerely,” wrote Jerry O’Connell, who starred as Vern Tessio in Reiner’s 1986 movie Stand By Me.
“OMG THIS IS HORRIBLE NEWS! IM SO SORRY 4 ROB & HIS WIFE, & THEIR CHILDREN & THE WHOLE REINER FAMILY! ALL I CAN SAY IS IM SHOCKED & SADDENED, BUT I #LOVE U ROB! U WILL B 4EVER MISSED! #RIPROBREINER,” tweeted Corey Feldman, who performed Teddy Duchamp in the identical movie.
“Rob was a pal and collaborator by way of a lot of my life. He was humorous, he was sensible, he was a mensch. When he got here to see the comedy act I used to be in, and, later, the musical comedy I had co-written, his giggle was uproarious and audible across the block,” wrote Harry Shearer who collaborated with Reiner on the comedy traditional This Is Spinal Faucet.
“He was an ideal collaborator, and when the 4 of us proposed concepts for the movies, he was the one who wrote them on 3×5 playing cards, and arranged them right into a film. And Michele was an excellent pal to my spouse Judith. That is unspeakable, the stuff of Greek tragedy,” Shearer continued.
In his later years, Reiner put in visitor activates a few of TV’s hottest reveals, together with The Bear and New Woman, on which he performed the daddy of star Zooey Deschanel.
“My coronary heart is damaged. Rob Reiner was absolutely the warmest, funniest, most beneficiant of spirits,” Deschanel wrote on Instagram Monday morning.
“A very good human being. An unimaginable artist and such a playful and enjoyable collaborator. I cherish the time we spent working collectively and the numerous movies he made which have formed who I’m,” she continued, including:
“Rob and his beautiful spouse Michele have been all the time so form and it introduced me a lot pleasure any time I used to be fortunate sufficient to see them.”
“Christopher and I are numb and unhappy and shocked in regards to the violent, tragic deaths of our expensive buddies Rob and Michele Singer Reiner and our ONLY focus and care proper now’s for his or her kids and fast households and we are going to provide all help attainable to assist them,” wrote Jamie Lee Curtis, who performed Deschanel’s mom on the present.
“There shall be loads of time later to debate the artistic lives we shared and the nice political and social impression they each had on the leisure trade, early childhood growth, the combat for homosexual marriage and their world take care of a world in disaster. We have now misplaced nice buddies. Please give us time to grieve.”
Numerous stars have praised Reiner’s life and work in the present day, however one of the crucial shifting tributes was additionally one of many shortest:
The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes wrote merely, “No phrases…” alongside a photograph of his director’s chair standing alongside Reiner’s on the set of the traditional movie.
Our ideas exit to Rob Reiner and Michele Singer’s family members throughout this extremely troublesome time.
