What were Rob Reiner’s most iconic films?
While the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner have shaken Hollywood, some of their most iconic works are being remembered.
Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner were friends to Martin Scorsese, and their recent deaths fill the Oscar-winning filmmaker with “profound sadness.”
In a guest essay for The New York Times published Christmas Day, Scorsese paid tribute to his fellow director and reminisced about meeting for the first time and working together, though he also took a grave tone when discussing the Reiners’ suspected homicides.
“What happened to Rob and Michele is an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality,” Scorsese writes. “The only thing that will help me to accept it is the passing of time.”
Scorsese called Reiner and himself “Eastern transplants” who got to know each other during the early 1970s when Scorsese moved to LA from New York City and met Reiner and then-wife Penny Marshall.
“Right away, I loved hanging out with Rob. We had a natural affinity for each other,” Scorsese recalls in his essay. He remembered Reiner as “hilarious and sometimes bitingly funny, but he was never the kind of guy who would take over the room.”
Scorsese’s favorite Reiner movie was the “very special” Stephen King adaptation “Misery,” “beautifully acted” by Kathy Bates and James Caan, though Scorsese admits that the mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap” is “in a class of its own. It’s a kind of immaculate creation.”
The Oscar-winning director also harkened back to casting Reiner as Leonardo DiCaprio’s on-screen father in the 2013 drama “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Not only was Reiner a “master of comedy,” Scorsese felt he innately knew his character: “The man loved his son, he was happy with his success, but he knew that he was destined for a fall.”
Law enforcement and prosecutors have alleged that the Reiners’ 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, used a knife to fatally stab his parents. Following his Dec. 14 arrest on suspicion of first-degree murder, he remains behind bars without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 7.
Scorsese was moved by “the delicacy and openness” of Rob Reiner during filming. “Now, it breaks my heart to even think of the tenderness of Rob’s performance in this and other scenes.”
Contributing: KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY
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