I interviewed Rob Reiner twice in the last six months, both times about “Spinal Tap” — once solo and once with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, his longtime friends and the actors/bandmembers in the film. While both of those interviews are excellent, funny and essential for fans of the film — their chemistry and occasional crankiness as septuagenarian-plus friends is palpable — it was a brief conversation we had before the solo interview that has resonated, even prior to his and his wife’s shocking deaths last week.
We started off talking about our fathers — we were on a Zoom, it was a beautiful Friday in late June, and Rob asked where I was calling from. I said my dad’s house, and mentioned that he’d just gotten home from work at his law firm, which he still runs at the age of 89.
Rob then told the story of how his father,…
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