Rob Reiner Dead: 'The Princess Bride' Director Found Dead With Wife https://variety.com/2025/film/news/rob-reiner-dead-princess-bride-spinal-tap-1236608541/

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[–] 132 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Did Opie edit their link in the end? It looks the same now.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Oh hey, they did!  Musta forgot what platform they were posting on, lol.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago

    Stabbed? That's fucked up!

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    People has some helpful links at the bottom of their story. No, People, I don't like this, I don't want to read this:

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    [–] 24 points 11 months ago*

    De-Googled link.

    I had no idea that was his mom in "When Harry..."

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  • [–] 65 points 11 months ago

    Their son Nick is in custody for the crimes. RIP Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner. Reiner brought so much hilarity and joy.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Man, I remember when he played Archie's son-in-law Meathead, married to Archie's hot daughter, Gloria. And in real life his dad was Carl Reiner, another amazing genius.

    I genuinely expected Rob to live to 98, just like his old man did. This is horrible. RIP.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Spinal Tap II just came to HBO on Friday. Rob Reiner was amazing in that.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    Stand by me is one of my all time favorite movies. Evan as a kid the campfire scene where Chris talks about who stole the lunch money makes me tear up even today. It’s such a terrible thing to wake up to hear of Rob and Michelle’s death. RIP to you both, you may be gone but you will not be forgotten ever.

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  • [–] 75 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    “In June 2021, Reiner said that he was working on a 10- to 13-episode TV project covering the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The project, he said, would cover the leaders' childhoods up until the point where their lives cross.” ―https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reiner#Political_views

    Hmm 🧐.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Yay, more conspiracy theories - like we didn't have more than enough already.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Clearly a conspiracy theory because no one in the USA is ever killed because of their political activism.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Or killed because they had a son who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, has been in and out of rehab since 17 years old, and has been homeless multiple times.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Reports now coming in that it was their son, Nick. Tragic

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    [–] 74 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    God damn way to bury the lede with that title. He's an old guy I assume found dead in his home means he died like of old age or cardiac arrest or something. Not that it's potential double homicide.

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  • [–] 49 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    And reports now saying it's their son

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Hello, my name is Nick Reiner. You killed my father. Prepare to die...

    Well, this is awkward.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    It very well be true…but calling what People does “reporting” isn’t great. People was always a tabloid, but is now akin to TMZ as it struggles for relevance.

    “Source say”…then not including what any of the sources actually said is just hack.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not saying he didn't do it. In fact I'm pretty sure at the end of the day it will come out that he did.

    But Pepperidge Farm remembers when news reporters remembered to use the world "allegedly" in their headlines until after the trial was concluded.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I remember lots of over the top and ironic use of that term years after the Simpson trial, too, since nearly everyone thought he did it.

    It's still really wild how Norm Macdonald was one of the few people who wasn't a cowering pussy about it...but probably lost his job at SNL over it.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Inconceivable! Sorry but I think Rob would appreciate these kinds of jokes.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    Got an actual link to a story and not Google?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I had seen that Spinal Tap 2 just hit the digital format on the 12th. I wonder if that is at all related, assuming his son did it...

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