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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nRemembering Hollywood greats Rob and Michele Reiner<\/p>\n
The tragic deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner have shocked the entertainment world and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Billy Crystal<\/a> is getting vulnerable about how he’s processing the death of close friend Rob Reiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n “There’s so many moments that when something good happens, or [I think] ‘Isn’t that crazy?’ I want to pick up the phone and call [him] and say, ‘Did you see it?’ Because that’s what we would do,” the 78-year-old actor said during his April 14 appearance<\/a> on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Crystal remembered his “When Harry Met Sally\u00a0\u2026<\/a>” director, who died at 78<\/a> alongside wife Michele Reiner<\/a> in a suspected double homicide<\/a> in December, as “hilarious, devoted, opinionated in the best way, fighting for the truth for our country.”<\/p>\n “We could talk about everything. He was an uncle to my kids,” Crystal told Colbert.<\/p>\n The “City Slickers” actor, who is promoting his upcoming one-man show on Broadway<\/a>, also opened up about his final conversations with Reiner during Oscars host Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party<\/a> the night before the Reiners’ killings.<\/p>\n Crystal appeared to get choked up at the top of the interview, when Colbert asked about the ensemble tribute to Reiner during the Oscars last month.<\/p>\n “I know it must be a very difficult thing to talk about because he was such an incredible friend to you, such an incredible artist, beloved by so many, and [the Reiners’ deaths] came in such a shocking and terrible way,” Colbert said after Crystal struggled to find words for several seconds.<\/p>\n “No, I’m good. It was shortly after the tragedy. We had spent the night before together and talking about our careers together,” Crystal said. “We were talking about the movie business and how it’s changed, and how people don’t go to theaters like they used to. And we talked about the fact that you can’t control how a movie is gonna do.”<\/p>\n “What you can control is the experience of making it. And the experiences that we had together and that he had with the casts of his other movies was so extraordinary. He said that’s something you always have,” he continued. “Hits are great to have, but it’s the people that you hold on to.”<\/p>\n