{"id":2204630,"date":"2025-12-18T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204630"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:52:08","slug":"a-brief-conversation-with-rob-reiner-about-fathers-friendship-and-living-a-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-brief-conversation-with-rob-reiner-about-fathers-friendship-and-living-a-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Conversation With Rob Reiner About Fathers, Friendship and Living a Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">I interviewed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001661\/\">Rob Reiner<\/a> twice in the last six months, both times about \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088258\/\">Spinal Tap<\/a>\u201d \u2014 once solo and once with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001302\/\">Christopher Guest<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0571106\/\">Michael McKean<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0733427\/\">Harry Shearer<\/a>, 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 \u2014 their chemistry and occasional crankiness as septuagenarian-plus friends is palpable \u2014 it was a brief conversation we had before the solo interview that has resonated, even prior to his and his wife\u2019s shocking deaths last week.<\/p>\n<p>We started off talking about our fathers \u2014 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\u2019s house, and mentioned that he\u2019d just gotten home from work at his law firm, which he still runs at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Rob then told the story of how his father,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed Rob Reiner twice in the last six months, both times about \u201cSpinal Tap\u201d \u2014 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 \u2014 their chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2204631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2204630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/A-Brief-Conversation-With-Rob-Reiner-About-Fathers-Friendship-and.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204632,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204630\/revisions\/2204632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}