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Reiner news started breaking around 6:30 PT last night. LAT couldn't get it in today's print edition?

L.A. Daily News, OCR and Long Beach stripped it on top of A1.
 
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SixToe said:
NY Post hed: "All In The Family"

Good gracious. On par, of course.

It also has a story about the "insane and disgraceful" post by Pres Felon
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It’s horrible, but it might be their greatest headline ever in their very specific category.
 
wicked said:
I wish. I’m kinda ashamed. I’ve never been a Spinal Tap guy. (That’s also not blue font.)
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Spartan Squad said:
That’s fair. I asked mainly because Rob Reiner (along with directing) also was in the film as a documentarian director following the band. The famous “This one goes to 11” scene is Christopher Guest and Reiner going back and forth.
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It's easy to scoot Spinal Tap over into Christopher Guest's body of work as a writer and director.

outofplace said:
Of course, Trump's response was unhinged hate.
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Jealousy is an ugly emotion. Reiner was insanely talented, a good person, and loved by family and friends.
 
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HanSenSE said:
Ton paraphrase Dana Bash on CNN this morning, he set the bar low and has gone under that.
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This is when the Dems too often IMO hew to the sainted High Road and don't take advantage of the situation to loudly and relentlessly say what a terrible POS he is every moment of every day.

Dems have a "Got Milk?" campaign attitude and need Carville + Atwater.
 
Yes. Gavin is the new Carville. I like Pritzker and Shapiro too.

But Gavin Newsom is very good at what he does trying to stoke the passions of Dems.
 
Back to Reiner ...

Impossible to imagine what went on and the psychosis of his son to do this. Just unimaginable.

Trying to think of my favorite movie. I've never seen Spinal Tap. Hard to argue about his talents with eight of his first 10 movies being hits or successes. Definitely an industry stalwart.

Picking a favorite out of that first run is tough.
 
Everything that I think of that he's done makes me go, "OK, that's got to be No. 1" and then the next one comes up and I think the same thing.

Just a remarkable run.

And the podcast series he did on the JFK assassination with Soledad O'Brien? That may be my favorite of anything he ever did.
 
A few weeks ago I went to a hockey game with a friend. As he was driving his phone rang and he grimaced and he said he needed to take it. The guy on the other end instantly just starts rambling and I have no idea what he's talking about but I did pick up he was wandering a grocery store after getting arrested the night before about 50 miles away and then taking a bus back to the store. My friend hung up and said he had to call the guy's parents to let them know where he was. Then he told me the full story. The guy is in his mid 40s, drugs, mental health problems, tons of arrests, some violent incidents. He's the kid of my friend's neighbors, who are in their 80s. The dad thanked my friend for calling and you could just hear the anguish in his voice. They've apparently been getting the guy help for decades and it just never fully sticks and as I listened to the whole thing it was just so depressing and I was thinking, there's no way it ends well. Whether it's for the parents or the kid.

And of course I know a few other families with similar situations. You just never expect it to reach the level of violence as with the Reiners but for the poor families dealing with issues like this I'm sure it's something that haunts their thoughts as a possibility.

It's been mentioned a lot online but the first seven movies he directed are just stunning: Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. The hours of enjoyment I've gotten out of watching those--since I've watched pretty much all of them a dozen or more times or dozens and dozens when it comes to Tap, Stand By Me, Bride and A Few Good Men--is incredible. And while he didn't reach those heights with his feature films lately, he still did great work as an actor and with things like the Albert Brooks documentary, which was fantastic. And that's not even getting into his activism. RIP to Rob and Michele.
 
I don’t think anyone has mentioned this yet, but Reiner was instrumental in getting Seinfeld on the air — and probably more important, keeping it on the air in its early days when its ratings weren’t good and the network wanted to cancel it.
 
I read somewhere that Rob and his wife had mentioned to a reporter years ago that they feared pretty much this exact demise.
So sad.
 
SixToe said:
Back to Reiner ...

Impossible to imagine what went on and the psychosis of his son to do this. Just unimaginable.

Trying to think of my favorite movie. I've never seen Spinal Tap. Hard to argue about his talents with eight of his first 10 movies being hits or successes. Definitely an industry stalwart.

Picking a favorite out of that first run is tough.
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When Harry Met Sally. Sweet as can be.
 
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