Rob Reiner and wife murdered

Speechless. This was not a good weekend.

So completely horrifying, so terribly sad.

It's horrifying when anyone is killed in this way, but when it's someone who is familiar and has been for decades, someone who seemed to be such a solid citizen who has done so many good things both professionally and personally it's just shocking.

I just watched the late news and apparently the official reports are that the police have no one in custody, but everything is always more complicated when celebrities are involved so they could just be slow releasing any info about suspects.

Sigh.

((((((((((((((((  Reiner Family & Friends )))))))))))))))

Unbelievable. WTF world 

Trump's a sick bastard. No link but his truth social post.

I'm reading their son Nick was arrested. What a horrible way to go.

RIP Rob and Michele Reiner.

Just so sad.  RIP.

And that social media post is one of the most vile and unhinged moments in presidential history.   Guy really needs help and if any member of Congress doesn't condemn that, they are as bad as he is.

This just sucks.  I was a six year old when All In The Family first aired.  It had a profound impression on my sense of comedy, ethics  and sociology.  Rob was the last of the main cast members still living.  He and Michele (and his first wife Penny Marshall) went on to create many landmark films.   As Harry Shesrer said,  "Rob still had more work to be done, and it's a loss."

R.I.P. Rob and Michele.  Thanks for the good you created.

Holy fuck,...is that TS post real?   Derangement hitting new levels.   

I believe Sally Struthers is still alive, Dave.

Holy fuck,...is that TS post real?  <<<

I would't put anything past him at this point.

You're right, Judit, Sally Struthere is 78 and still living.  She and Rob Reiner were the same age.  I has a brain fart and was thinking of Loretta Swift, who passed earlier this year.

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they react when someone dies.” -- Charlie Kirk 

NPR is re-airing a Fresh Air interview tomorrow concerning Rob's family life and career that was conducted a few months ago.

I has a brain fart and was thinking of Loretta Swift<<<

Well, Gloria does have hot lips

Sock Sock Shoe Shoe

https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk?si=kFnh5v55f3Xp8Db8

I just watched Spinal Tap II on Saturday - really enjoyed it, made me laugh out loud a few times and forget about the ills of the world. Then the next day this happens...ugh.

Just watched Spinal Tap Ii.  It is worthy.  Better than Jaws 2 as far as sequels go and that was a decent sequel.

^^^That’s funny.

Every time i put on my shoes i think of that episode.

i was 11 when that aired, and never forgot it.
I sometimes go sock shoe sock shoe just to mix it up.

RIP Meat Head. :(

"Talk about mud flaps: my baby's got em" 

Anyone read Heather Cox Richardson?  Her article today was spot on.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2025

“For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character. And although I have not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I’ve been here three years and three days. And I can tell you, without hesitation, being president of this country is entirely about character.”

In 1995 the late Rob Reiner— who, along with his wife Michele Singer Reiner, lost his life yesterday— directed The American President, written by Aaron Sorkin. In the film, President Andrew Shepherd, a widower, is facing a challenge from Republican presidential hopeful Senator Bob Rumson, who attacks Shepherd by focusing on the activist past of the woman he is dating, lawyer and lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade.

The final scene of the film is a speech by the president rejecting the pretended patriotism of his partisan attacker, who is cynically manipulating voters to gain power. It is a meditation on what it means to be the president of the United States.

“For the record, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU,” Shepherd says to reporters at a press conference, “but the more important question is, why aren’t you, Bob? Now, this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question, why would a senator, his party’s most powerful spokesman, and a candidate for president choose to reject upholding the Constitution?”

“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve got to want it bad, ‘cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say: You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as a land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now, show me that. Defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.”

“I’ve known Bob Rumson for years, and I’ve been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn’t get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it. Bob’s problem is that he can’t sell it. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only, making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it.

“That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.”

“We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people. And if you want to talk about character, Bob, you better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card.… This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your 15 minutes are up.”

(I read Heather Cox Richardson and think her columns are always spot on.)

I read heather cox richardson and mostly agree with what judit said

Stephen King remembers Rob Reiner and Stand By Me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/culture/stephen-king-rob-rein... (Gift link)

never would have imagined that, thanks Mike

stand by me is like my all time #1 character study type movie

it's a *perfect* film. not a single wasted second or word in it.

Thanks Mike. Loved this part. 

Nostalgia can be dangerous when it’s up close. I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but it feels true.

Martin Scorsese remembers Rob Reiner:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/opinion/culture/martin-scorsese-rob-r... (gift link)