Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were brutally stabbed to death in their Brentwood, California home on Sunday night, reportedly by their troubled 32-year-old son Nick who has battled addiction for most of his life.
Despite a Truth Social post made in bad taste, and factually inaccurate, by President Trump, Ryan chooses instead to remember the greatness of Reiner's art and indelible moments from landmark films he directed in the 1980s and 90s. Also, when America first saw Reiner as Michael Stivic opposite the iconic Caroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker on 'All In the Family,' television history was made.
Despite a Truth Social post made in bad taste, and factually inaccurate, by President Trump, Ryan chooses instead to remember the greatness of Reiner's art and indelible moments from landmark films he directed in the 1980s and 90s. Also, when America first saw Reiner as Michael Stivic opposite the iconic Caroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker on 'All In the Family,' television history was made.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Songs that made pays like us we hadn't made.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Those were the day.
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And you know.
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need no welfare sting.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Everybody pulled his weight.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
G r O Last su great bows. Both of us
of a certain age can remember the landmark television program
that was All in the Family, starring Carol O'Connor as
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Archie Bunker. And of course Norman Lear produced this program
at a time in our history in the nineteen seventies
when there was much turmoil in our society regarding Vietnam Watergate,
the darkness and depression of those years from a pop
culture standpoint, but also from an economic standpoint that led
into the Carter years. And you look back and Norman
(01:15):
Leair created this caricature that was Archie Bunker, that was
reflective of a generation that would be my grandfather's generation,
the greatest generation, the World War two generation that was
so set in his ways, that was pretty much overtly racist,
definitely politically incorrect. And yet what Norman Lear was able
(01:37):
to do was create a caricature that became a lovable
character and much the same way an anti hero maybe
years later, but in a much more violent degree of
tony soprano that you couldn't help but root for. And
the reason we revisit this all time American classic today,
of course, is with the tragic loss of Rob Reiner.
(01:59):
And I'll only briefly comment on his politics because I
don't think it's relevant to his contributions that he made
to American culture that were extremely significant. And it all
started with him on the couch talking to Archie Bunker
as the character Michael Stivich introduced in this for the
first time in this episode, and this is where he
(02:21):
gets the label meathead. Hey, yeah, how would you like
to try his hit chair? Be course, that one's mine.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
What kind of a name is Stivik? Where you're from?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Uh, Chicago?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
I mean, what's your nationality?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
To an America?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I mean where are your people from.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
They're from Poland. That would make you Polish? Then? Yeah,
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anything interesting in the paper?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
Yeah, two hundred arrested in Vietnam Day Peace demonstration two hundred.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
They should have thrown a whole bunch of them in
the cab. Who had that picture there? Here?
Speaker 9 (03:23):
They are throwing all kinds of junken deepers of the officers
of the law.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That secreting on the American flag. They haven't a piece
of pix one anyhow.
Speaker 10 (03:32):
Well, I think if they just don't like the idea
of America fighting an illegal and immoral war, well.
Speaker 11 (03:39):
If they don't like it, they can lump it, take
you down the road, and dump it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
What do you you're saying, America love her to leave it?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
That's right, it's a free country, sir Amb's great.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well that would include me too, mister Bunker in two.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
The U to you too, Well, what would our leaving solve?
Speaker 12 (04:05):
I mean, with or without protests, this country would still
have the same problems. What problems quo the war, the
racial problem, the economic problem, the pollution problem.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Come on, if you want to nit pick, nitpick, let
me tell you something, mister Punker. No, let me tell
you something, mister Stivick.
Speaker 11 (04:22):
You are a meat.
Speaker 13 (04:23):
Head, a meathead, dead from the neck up.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Just an all time American classic. And they would have
these debates on going throughout the program. Of course, Sally
Strauther is playing the daughter of Archie Bunker on the show.
Shan I just want to get your reflection having grown
up during that time as well, what an impact that
show made on American television, and maybe what impact that
show had on you personally.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Well, I've recently been compared to Archie, so thank you.
But if anyone listening now ever accidentally listened to Ross Kaminski.
We started doing a bit on the air that was
based on an ad libbed scene between O'Connor and.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Reiner that.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
O'Connor came in and saw him putting on one sock
and one shoe and went absolutely ballistic, what are you doing?
And he said, I'm a sock shoe sock shoe guy,
and it turned into a huge bit for us here
on Kaminski show.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow, I didn't know that that was the origin story
of that, because to this day I believe Ross does
that with guests. She'll ask could be any buddy on
the spectrum of politics, of pop culture, comedy, et cetera,
And he goes, are you a sock shoe sock shoe
person or a sock sock shoe shoe person? Right?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Even Tammy Duckworth Wigan I remember that particular one and
she said, it depends on what legs I'm wearing that day.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh yeah, because of course she's confined to a wheelchair
and is disabled from her service to our country. Remembering
Rob Ryan around this day, dead at the age of
seventy eight, and if you're hearing about it for the
first time, the details as reported by NBC are As
follows to this point. Nick Reiner, the son of movie
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director Rob Reiner, has been arrested now in connection with
the deaths of his parents, according to two law enforcement
sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, Rob Reiner and
Michelle Singer Reiner were found dead on Sunday with stab wounds.
A source close to the family told NBC News it
was not immediately known if Nick Reiner has legal representation.
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The death of Rob Reiner has shocked Hollywood stars and
his fans across the world. He built a huge reputation
through acting in and producing and directing a string of
hit movies in the eighties and nineties, which we are
going to revisit here today on this program, remembering the
contributions that he made to American film. Nick Reiner, aged
thirty two, has a long history with drug addiction, which
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began in his teens. He told people in an interview
in twenty sixteen that he spent period of weeks sleeping
rough on the streets and was in and out of
rehab for addiction treatment that started when he was fifteen.
These experiences inspired the twenty sixteen movie Quote Being Charlie,
which was directed by Rob Reiner, co written by Nick Reiner,
and featured actor Carry Els, famous for appearing in Reiner's
(07:18):
classic The Princess Bride as the main character's father. The
plot focuses on a young man struggling with addiction who
has been in and out of rehab. Nick told people
at the time, quote, now I've been home for a
really long time, and I've sort sort of gotten acclimated
back to being in la and being around my family.
Reiner reflected on the challenges in real life and how
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they influenced the movie in an interview with The La
Times in twenty fifteen. This is Rob Reiner saying, quote,
it was very, very hard going through it the first time,
with these painful and difficult highs and lows, and then
making the movie dredged it all up again. The protagonist
of Being Charlie struggles to find meaning or practical help
through a rehab program and Reiner and Singer told the
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La Times that this was directly inspired by how ineffective
such treatments were for their son. And continuing now with
Rob Reiner's comments from that time quote, when Nick would
tell us that it wasn't working for him, we wouldn't listen.
We were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on
their wall, we listened to them when we should have
been listening to our son. Just a tragic series of events,
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the son Nick in custody and the double stabbing murder
of his mother and father and of course his father.
Rob Reiner a noted Trump critic, And yet again I
don't focus on the politics here because we have a
bigger and broader idea of what defines a person. Even
though Rob Reiner said some pretty crazy, outlandish, incendiary things
(08:44):
about the president, he would threaten to leave the country,
he was one that didn't actually do that if Trump
were to win the election again. But setting that aside,
and yes we can set that aside, we could look
back in time and recognize a guy that really hit
the scene with his trayal of Michael Stivick and all
in the family. But then as a director, revolutionized and
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really originated along with Christopher Guest and all of the
troop and the cast you talk about Harry Sheer and
Michael McKeon of the mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap
hit theaters in nineteen eighty four and would develop much
more of a cult following in the years that would
follow than it did at the time in theaters. But
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it was this very format that would become a hit
later on, with Christopher Guests producing such films as Waiting
for Guffman Beston's Show A Mighty Wind, And this was
the origin story of it all. As he portrays Marty
de Bergie does Rob Reiner in this intro to the
film This Is Spinal Tap.
Speaker 12 (09:47):
Hello, my name is Marty de Bergie. I'm a filmmaker.
I make a lot of commercials. That little dog that
chases the covered wagon underneath the sink that was mine.
In nineteen sixty six, I went down to Greenwich Village,
New York City, to a rock club called the Electric Banana.
(10:07):
Don't look for it, it's not there anymore. But that
night I heard a band that for me redefined the
word rock and roll. I remember being knocked out by
their exuberance, their raw power, and their punctuality. That band
was Britain's now legendary Spinal Tap. Seventeen years and fifteen
(10:31):
albums later, Spinal Tap is still going strong and they've
earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of
England's loudest bands. So in the late fall of nineteen
eighty two, when I heard that Tap was releasing a
new album called Smell the Glove and was planning their
first tour of the United States in almost six years
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to promote that album, well, needless to say, I jumped
at the chance to make the documentary, the if you
will rockumentary You're about to see. I wanted to capture
the sights, the sounds, the smells of a hard working
rock band on the road, and I got that, but.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I got more, a lot more.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
But hey, enough of my yakin, what do you say,
let's bookie.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
The sights, the sounds, the smells of life on the
road with Spinal Tap an absolute classic. If you haven't
seen it, or if you haven't seen it in a while,
definitely recommend revisiting it. It's just a classic of American cinema.
Gotta believe Shannon that you've seen Spinal Tap at some point.
This is Spinal Tap the film the originally one.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Of my favorite little hidden nuggets is the cold sores
that the band has at the opening and the closing
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Correct. Yes, little attention to detail throughout the film, it
makes it brilliant. There's so many cameos in this too
that you might not remember or recognize, including from an
actor who would later star in one of Rob Reiner's
all time hits, when Harry Met Sally. We'll have a
clip from that coming up, and that's Billy Crystal.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Mime is money.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Mime is money, as he converses with Dana Carvey, portraying
one of the mimes there in one of the opening scenes.
Of course, Bruno Kirby plays the limo driver in this
Bobby Fleckman portrayed by fran Dresher. She steals the show
a lot of those lines. And all of this was
based on a loose script and improvised, so that's what
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made it feel sound so conversational and really appear to
be like a real documentary. And it would culminate just
this past year with Spinal Tap two. The end continues
and Rob Reiner did all the publicity and touring that
went along with that. He put the hat back on
that he wore portraying the character. The director Marty de Bergie.
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Of course, he was the director both of the original
and of the sequel that came out not too so
much critical acclaim as the original does get a six
point five though on IMDb. I think that's relatively good,
especially for a sequel. Shannon mentioned one of the untold
moments that we kind of dig under the hood for,
but this is one of the over the top moments
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and Rob Ryner had a central role in this scene.
This one goes up to eleven. This is a top
to you know, what we use on stage.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
But it's very very special because if you can see, yeah,
the numbers all go to eleven. Look right across the board,
eleven or eleven, mostly eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Ams go up to ten. Exactly Does that mean it's louder?
Is that any louder?
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Well, it's one louder, isn't it. It's not ten? You
see most most blokes you're.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Gonna be playing at ten.
Speaker 14 (13:45):
You're on ten here, all the way up, all the
way up, all the way up.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go
from there?
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Well, I don't know exactly what we do is if
we need that extra push over the cliff, you know
we do put it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Up to a eleven exactly.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
One note, why don't you just make ten louder and
make ten be the top number and make.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That a little louder. These start to eleven, the pregnant pause.
It's everything. And also in this scene they cut away
from it. He's showing Nigel tough No portrayed by Christopher
Guesting and magically so all of his guitars and there's water.
He goes, don't touch it, don't look at it. I'm sorry.
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And playing the straight man there, Rob Reiner is Marty
de Bergie is everything. It makes the scene because it
allows Nigel toughnes it'll be so ridiculous in contrast here,
like this guy really believes what he's telling Marty de Bergie.
But we're all seeing this through the eyes of Marty
de Bergie, Like, dude, what do you talk about? This
one goes to eleven on the amplifier and then you
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know bands would have custom made amplifiers that went to eleven.
You need to extra push over the Cliff indeed remembering
Rob Reiner on this day, tragically murdered at the age
of seventy eight along with his wife last night. The
main suspect is his son Nick. I mean, it's just
so tragic on so many levels, especially this time of year.
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And then one more scene before we go to break
from another Rob Reiner classic, Mark Knopfleur with the soundtrack
on this Peter Falk playing the grandfather, Fred Savage as
the grandson reading him a book called The Princess Bride,
and this pivotal scene. We can sum it up simply
by saying, to the pain.
Speaker 15 (15:31):
But first things first, to the death, you know, to
the pain. I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Speaker 14 (15:43):
I'll explain, and I'll use small words so you'll be
sure to understand. You war tug faced buffoon.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
That maybe the first time in my life a man
has dared insult me.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It won't be the last.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
The pain means the first thing you lose will be.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
Your feet below the ankles, then your hands at the wrists,
next to your nose.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And then my tongue.
Speaker 15 (16:08):
I suppose I killed you too quickly the last time,
a mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't mean to duplicate. Tonight, I wasn't finished.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
By your right, and then my ears. I understand. Let's
get on with it.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why, So
that every shriek of every child, and seeing your hideousness,
will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at
your approach, every woman who cries out, Dear God, what
is that thing?
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Will echo in your perfect ears. That is what the
pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing
in freakish misery forever I think you're bluffing. It's possible, pig,
I might be bluffing. Conceivable miserable vomitis, mass themony, lying
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here because I lack the strength to stand.
Speaker 14 (17:06):
Then again, perhaps I have the strength. After all, rock
your sword.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I have a seen.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Time up. I make it as tight as you like.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Hey, I thought it was with you. In that case,
what is worse than.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
This helping because there has no strength. I knew it.
I knew you were bluffing. I knew he was bluffing.
Carrie ELL's of course, as Wesley Chris Sarand and as
Prince Humperdink you heard as well Mandy Patinkin as a
Nigo Montoya. So many quotable moments from all of these
movies that will be reviewing. That goes to the writing,
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but it also goes to the directing of Rob Reiner
and the genius that these movies would become so many
e Miracle Max portrayed by Billy Crystal in this film
as well, and the notion of true love, that it's
a love story that a little boy hearing this story
doesn't want to hear about the kissing, but by the
end he has evolved to the point where his grandfather
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has brought him along that maybe it's not such a
bad thing after all. A fantasy and in this realm
Rob Reiner hits a home run. The rock documentary, the
rom con that we're coming up with after the Break
when Harry met Sally, the thriller that is Misery, which
was portrayed right here in Colorado, and the drama that
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was A Few Good Men. Rob Reiner really covered all
the bases, remembering his life after his murder allegedly by
his son stabbed a death along with his wife last
night Gone at the age of seventy eight, well much
more after this, including his words on the assassination of
Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
He first heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk, what
was your immediate gut reaction to it?
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Well, horror, absolute horror, And I unfortunately saw the video
of it, and it's beyond belief what happened to him,
and that sho had never happened to anybody. I don't
care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's
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not a solution to solving problems. And I felt like
what his wife said at the service, that the memorial
they had was.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Exactly right, totally. I believe, you know, I'm Jewish.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
But I believe in the teachings of Jesus, and I
believe in doing two others, and I believe in forgiveness.
And what she said to me was beautiful and absolutely
you know, she forgave his assassin, and I think that
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is admirable.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Rob Reiner commenting on the assassination of Charlie Kirk in
its immediate aftermath three months ago and three months later,
the famed director and former actor on All in the Family,
as he was best known, dead at the age of
seventy eight, along with his wife, allegedly stabbed to death
last night, murdered in their own home by their own son,
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Nick Reiner. He was thirty two. Just a terrible tragedy,
especially this time of year, but really a graceful note
that Rob Reiner struck there on Charlie Kirk. Hopefully that
we could all set aside political persuasions and our passions
and all of that, to know that these are human beings,
Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner, and no matter what your political
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affiliation is, that we recognize that first, that we don't
lose our humanity in this. And Rob Reiner didn't, and
I think that speaks well of him. And the fact
that it's even notable is concerning to me because there
were so many on the left that either tap danced
on Charlie's grave, made excuses or justified made excuses for,
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or justified the assassination of Charlie Kirk because of his rhetoric,
or downright celebrated it with viral videos just demonic and depraved.
But Rob Reiner was not part of that. There were
other members of Hollywood. Jamie Lee Curtis would be another
one that similarly reacted with the proper amount of horror
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and disgust that we do not politically target violence toward
our opponent, their adversaries in the political sense, their opponents
in the political realm. But we're all Americans, and Rob Reiner,
you know, he engaged in some very heated rhetoric about
his dislike for the president. I get that, But the
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response from President Trump here is very personal, and it's
very disappointing on true social to me that he put
up this morning quote. A very sad thing happened last
night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but
once very talented movie director in comedy star, has passed
away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the
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anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable
affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement
syndrome all in capital letters, sometimes referred to as TEDS.
He was known to have driven people crazy in capitals
by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with
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his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration
surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with the
Golden Age of America upon us perhaps like never before.
May Rob and Michelle rest in peace well could have
used without that middle part there, and the President had
no basis to make that assumption or jump to that conclusion.
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We know that their son Nick was very unwell, was
an addict, struggled with mental illness. Rehab didn't really help him.
Rob Reiner even went as far as to make a
movie about him and about addiction. And this is very
personal to me because my own father is a recovering
alcoholic and I had to deal with this, this very
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real disease and the blight that it puts on families,
but then also the hope for renewal and recovery that
his president my own father, who has been sober now
for over twenty one years, and I'm very proud of
him for that. But there's no place for this from
what President Trump is saying, to make it about him
or to make it about Rob Briner's obsession with him.
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There is no causational direct link between whatever Rob Reiner
said about Trump and his son Nick's mental illness that,
for whatever reason we don't know, he is in custody.
Police have arrested him as a primary suspect. There's almost
no doubt that this individual Nick did this, stabbed his
parents to death. The why we don't know yet. I
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always try to hold on this axiom of we don't
know what, we don't know yet. You don't jump to conclusions,
you don't get ahead of this story. Now, if you're
on a PR crisis team, you want to get in
front of the story. That's different than getting ahead of
the story. And President Trump gets ahead of it here
and it's in very poor taste, and I think that
needs to be called out. Switching back to the movies
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that Rob Reiner made Again Dead at the age of
seventy eight, victim of homicide by his own son's hand,
and there's nothing that you can say about that that
will make sense of it. And especially during this holiday season.
I really liked what Rob said there too, about he's Jewish,
but he believes in the tenets and teachings of Jesus
about the kindness element of that, and that's so nice.
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You know, there are people that are called Messianic Jews
that have some faith and at least who Jesus Christ was,
and perhaps that he was a prophet, but they don't
believe that he's the Sire. And then there are those
that do believe he's the Messiah, but they hold on
to the Jewish tenets of faith, in the practice, in
the adhere to both the Old Testament and the New.
I'm not sure what Rob's exact religious feelings were. He
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kind of touched on them there, but I thought that
was a really nice touch as well, and a really
nice touch here in an uproarious rom com, most of
which I think, you know, guys are adverse to watching
something like Love. Actually you're like, I don't know about this,
but when Harry met Sally was one of those that
bridged the genders. I think women loved it and men
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loved it. Men felt like they could relate to Billy
Crystal and Bruno Kirby, and women felt like they could
root for in cheer on a Meg Ryan or a
Carrie Fisher. It was such a well constructed film from
start to finish, and in interspersed throughout the movie are
these actual couples, many of them elderly, telling their stories
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about how they met, how they fell in love, how
they made their marriages work after all these years. And
here is one of the closing scenes. In fact, I
believe it is the closing scene to the film, and
it takes place on New Year's Eve. Of course we'll
be celebrating that in just a couple of weeks. But
this again shows that the sheer genius of Rob Reiner
as a director, and of course the writing that went
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into it, the talent that performed at Billy Crystal. His
character is he's just so cynical about love that even
when he tells the woman he loves that he loves her,
it comes across this cynical. This is just brilliant.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I'm sorry, Harry.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
I know it's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I know you're feeling lonely, but you just can't show
up here, tell me you.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Love me and expect that to make everything all right.
It doesn't work this way.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
How does it work?
Speaker 11 (26:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Not this way? How about this way.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I love that you get cold when it's seventy one
degrees now. I love that it takes you an hour
and a half to order a sandwich. I love that
you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're
looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after
I spend a day with you. I can still smell
your perfume on my clothes, and I love that you
are the last person I want to talk to you
before I go to sleep at night. And it's not
because I'm lonely. And it's not because this New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I came here tonight.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Because when you realize you want to spend the rest
of your life with somebody, you want the rest of
your life to start as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You see, that is just like you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
You say things like that, and.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
You make it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you, Harry,
I really hate you.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
What does this song mean my whole life? I don't
know what the song means. I mean, should all the
acquaintance be forgotten? Does that mean that we should forget
all acquaints? It doesn't mean that if we happen to
forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible
because we've already forgotten.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that
we forgot them or something.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Anyway, it's about old friends, just a wonderful, ending, humorous
till the last Channon? Is this one rom com that
you can actually tolerate? When Harry met Sally.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
I am actually a rom com guy. It's the top
of the list.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Really, this one is okay, there it is and again
directed by the great Rob Reiner, who we are remembering
after his tragic murder last night. He and his wife
killed in their own home, stabbed to death allegedly by
their own son, Nick, who had mental health problems addiction issues.
He was thirty two years old. Rob Reiner dead at
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the age of seventy eight. One last time out for
this hour we'll come back. Remember two more all time
great films that Rob Reiner directed after this on Ryan
Schuling Live That from The Princess Briane, the music arranged
by Mark Knopp Fleur different singer there and you can
hear that song, I believe in the end credits of
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that all time classic film from nineteen eighty seven. Remembering
Rob Reiner, the director on this day after his brutal
murder on Sunday evening at the hands it would appear
of his own son Nick at the age of thirty two,
stabbing to death both his parents, his mother and his father,
and Rob Reiner leaving us at the age of seventy eight,
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but leaving behind a legacy of filmmaking that's difficult to match.
And it crossed so many genres, including this one. A
thriller inspired for Stephen King in the book that he
originally wrote by Colorado, much the same way that The
Shining was. It was kind of a favorite destination for
Stephen King and the premise of this James Cons's character
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is a writer, Paul, and he is out here in
Colorado during a very tough time of the year weatherwise.
His car wrecks in a snowstorm. This Annie is out
there just happens to save him. And this is a
pivotal scene after which Paul, who had been cared for
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by Annie, but she did not like the fact that
he was trying to escape from his room and she
wanted him right where she could keep her eyes on him.
And then she made sure of it at the end
of this scene.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Wow, So if you I could just stay in place
in lad Boy.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I know you've been out.
Speaker 16 (31:09):
Why you've been out of your room or I haven't, Paul,
my little ceramic penguin in the study always faces due south.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
Is this what you're looking for? I know you've been
out twice.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Paul.
Speaker 16 (31:36):
First, I couldn't figure out how you did it. But
last night I found your key. I know I left
my scrap book out. I can imagine what you might
be thinking of me. But you see, Paul, it's all okay.
Last night it came so clear. I realize you just
need more time. Eventually you'll come to accept the idea
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of being here.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Paul.
Speaker 16 (32:02):
Do you know about the early days of the Kimberly
diamond mines? Do you know what they did to the
native workers who stole diamonds.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Don't worry, they didn't kill them.
Speaker 16 (32:12):
That would be like junking and Mercedes just because it
had a broken spring. No, if they caught them, they
had to make sure they could go on working.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But they also had to make sure they could never
run away. The operation was called hobbling.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
What if you think I'm not doing it for God?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Trust me, it's for the best. Almost done, Just one
more God, I love you, Kathy based an unforgettable performance
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is Annie and of course James Kahn is writer Paul
Sheldon and with the Hobbling there she mashes both of
his legs while he's secured in a bed with a
large Mallet Hammer, Swings and Connects. Just a harrowing tale
and a great movie based on a Stephen King novel.
Another one you might recall from nineteen ninety two. Again,
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all of these movies share one common threat, and that
is they are very quotable, They are very memorable, and
they are indelible images in your mind, created in our
own pop culture. This one was star studded in nineteen
ninety two, starring Jack Nicholson as Colonel Jessup and Tom
Cruise as the prosecuting JAG attorney. In this absolutely unforgettable courtroom.
Speaker 14 (33:57):
Scene, Lieutenant Kin record of the code red, because that's
what you told Lieutenant Kendrick to do.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Cut these guys, look, Shunner, trans your honor. You dufted
the log book yourself in coll Jessen, do you water
the code? You don't have to answer that question. I'll
answer the question you want answers. I think I'm entitled.
You want answer what the truth? You can't handle the truth? Son.
Speaker 17 (34:26):
We live in a world that has walls, and those
walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg.
Speaker 17 (34:35):
I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.
You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You
have that luxury, You have the luxury of not knowing
what I know that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives,
and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
To you, saves lives.
Speaker 17 (34:57):
You don't want the truth because deep down in places
you don't talk about it parties, you want me on
that wall. You need me on that wall. We use
words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as
the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use
them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor
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the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises
and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that
I provide, and then question the manner in which I provided.
I would rather you just said thank you and went.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
On your way.
Speaker 17 (35:31):
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
And stand a post.
Speaker 17 (35:35):
Either way, I don't give a.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Damn what you think you are entitled to. Did you
order the code writ I did the job. Did you
order the code rudder? Goddamn right, I did? Wow. Jack
Nicholson They're a powerful performance on the witness stand. You know,
as far as courtroom dramas go, a Few Good Men
is about as good as it gets. There's your Jack
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Nicholson tie in there well again remembering the life of
Rob Reiner, murdered on Sunday night along with his wife,
presumably by his own son, Nick, As Fox News is
now reporting, the LAPD has arrested Nick Reiner, the thirty
two year old son of seventy eight year old Rob Reiner,
in connection with his parents murder. Our prayers go out
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to Rob Reiner, his family, his fans, and all of
us who enjoyed so many of his films over all
these years. Rob Reiner dead at the age of seventy eight.
Stay tuned, Ryan Schuling live right here on six thirty
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By the way, Glenn Miller plays.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Songs that made pays like us we hadn't made.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Those were the day.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Giles were gus on woman.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Mister we could use in the private hoover again, didn't
need no welfare sting.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Everybody pulled his weight.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
G r O Last su great bows. Both of us
of a certain age can remember the landmark television program
that was All in the Family, starring Carol O'Connor as
(00:52):
Archie Bunker. And of course Norman Lear produced this program
at a time in our history in the nineteen seventies
when there was much turmoil in our society regarding Vietnam Watergate,
the darkness and depression of those years from a pop
culture standpoint, but also from an economic standpoint that led
into the Carter years. And you look back and Norman
(01:15):
Leair created this caricature that was Archie Bunker, that was
reflective of a generation that would be my grandfather's generation,
the greatest generation, the World War two generation that was
so set in his ways, that was pretty much overtly racist,
definitely politically incorrect. And yet what Norman Lear was able
(01:37):
to do was create a caricature that became a lovable
character and much the same way an anti hero maybe
years later, but in a much more violent degree of
tony soprano that you couldn't help but root for. And
the reason we revisit this all time American classic today,
of course, is with the tragic loss of Rob Reiner.
(01:59):
And I'll only briefly comment on his politics because I
don't think it's relevant to his contributions that he made
to American culture that were extremely significant. And it all
started with him on the couch talking to Archie Bunker
as the character Michael Stivich introduced in this for the
first time in this episode, and this is where he
(02:21):
gets the label meathead. Hey, yeah, how would you like
to try his hit chair? Be course, that one's mine.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
What kind of a name is Stivik? Where you're from?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Uh, Chicago?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
I mean, what's your nationality?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
To an America?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I mean where are your people from.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
They're from Poland. That would make you Polish? Then? Yeah,
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anything interesting in the paper?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
Yeah, two hundred arrested in Vietnam Day Peace demonstration two hundred.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
They should have thrown a whole bunch of them in
the cab. Who had that picture there? Here?
Speaker 9 (03:23):
They are throwing all kinds of junken deepers of the officers
of the law.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That secreting on the American flag. They haven't a piece
of pix one anyhow.
Speaker 10 (03:32):
Well, I think if they just don't like the idea
of America fighting an illegal and immoral war, well.
Speaker 11 (03:39):
If they don't like it, they can lump it, take
you down the road, and dump it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
What do you you're saying, America love her to leave it?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
That's right, it's a free country, sir Amb's great.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well that would include me too, mister Bunker in two.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
The U to you too, Well, what would our leaving solve?
Speaker 12 (04:05):
I mean, with or without protests, this country would still
have the same problems. What problems quo the war, the
racial problem, the economic problem, the pollution problem.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Come on, if you want to nit pick, nitpick, let
me tell you something, mister Punker. No, let me tell
you something, mister Stivick.
Speaker 11 (04:22):
You are a meat.
Speaker 13 (04:23):
Head, a meathead, dead from the neck up.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Just an all time American classic. And they would have
these debates on going throughout the program. Of course, Sally
Strauther is playing the daughter of Archie Bunker on the show.
Shan I just want to get your reflection having grown
up during that time as well, what an impact that
show made on American television, and maybe what impact that
show had on you personally.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Well, I've recently been compared to Archie, so thank you.
But if anyone listening now ever accidentally listened to Ross Kaminski.
We started doing a bit on the air that was
based on an ad libbed scene between O'Connor and.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Reiner that.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
O'Connor came in and saw him putting on one sock
and one shoe and went absolutely ballistic, what are you doing?
And he said, I'm a sock shoe sock shoe guy,
and it turned into a huge bit for us here
on Kaminski show.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow, I didn't know that that was the origin story
of that, because to this day I believe Ross does
that with guests. She'll ask could be any buddy on
the spectrum of politics, of pop culture, comedy, et cetera,
And he goes, are you a sock shoe sock shoe
person or a sock sock shoe shoe person? Right?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Even Tammy Duckworth Wigan I remember that particular one and
she said, it depends on what legs I'm wearing that day.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh yeah, because of course she's confined to a wheelchair
and is disabled from her service to our country. Remembering
Rob Ryan around this day, dead at the age of
seventy eight, and if you're hearing about it for the
first time, the details as reported by NBC are As
follows to this point. Nick Reiner, the son of movie
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director Rob Reiner, has been arrested now in connection with
the deaths of his parents, according to two law enforcement
sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, Rob Reiner and
Michelle Singer Reiner were found dead on Sunday with stab wounds.
A source close to the family told NBC News it
was not immediately known if Nick Reiner has legal representation.
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The death of Rob Reiner has shocked Hollywood stars and
his fans across the world. He built a huge reputation
through acting in and producing and directing a string of
hit movies in the eighties and nineties, which we are
going to revisit here today on this program, remembering the
contributions that he made to American film. Nick Reiner, aged
thirty two, has a long history with drug addiction, which
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began in his teens. He told people in an interview
in twenty sixteen that he spent period of weeks sleeping
rough on the streets and was in and out of
rehab for addiction treatment that started when he was fifteen.
These experiences inspired the twenty sixteen movie Quote Being Charlie,
which was directed by Rob Reiner, co written by Nick Reiner,
and featured actor Carry Els, famous for appearing in Reiner's
(07:18):
classic The Princess Bride as the main character's father. The
plot focuses on a young man struggling with addiction who
has been in and out of rehab. Nick told people
at the time, quote, now I've been home for a
really long time, and I've sort sort of gotten acclimated
back to being in la and being around my family.
Reiner reflected on the challenges in real life and how
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they influenced the movie in an interview with The La
Times in twenty fifteen. This is Rob Reiner saying, quote,
it was very, very hard going through it the first time,
with these painful and difficult highs and lows, and then
making the movie dredged it all up again. The protagonist
of Being Charlie struggles to find meaning or practical help
through a rehab program and Reiner and Singer told the
(08:00):
La Times that this was directly inspired by how ineffective
such treatments were for their son. And continuing now with
Rob Reiner's comments from that time quote, when Nick would
tell us that it wasn't working for him, we wouldn't listen.
We were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on
their wall, we listened to them when we should have
been listening to our son. Just a tragic series of events,
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the son Nick in custody and the double stabbing murder
of his mother and father and of course his father.
Rob Reiner a noted Trump critic, And yet again I
don't focus on the politics here because we have a
bigger and broader idea of what defines a person. Even
though Rob Reiner said some pretty crazy, outlandish, incendiary things
(08:44):
about the president, he would threaten to leave the country,
he was one that didn't actually do that if Trump
were to win the election again. But setting that aside,
and yes we can set that aside, we could look
back in time and recognize a guy that really hit
the scene with his trayal of Michael Stivick and all
in the family. But then as a director, revolutionized and
(09:05):
really originated along with Christopher Guest and all of the
troop and the cast you talk about Harry Sheer and
Michael McKeon of the mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap
hit theaters in nineteen eighty four and would develop much
more of a cult following in the years that would
follow than it did at the time in theaters. But
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it was this very format that would become a hit
later on, with Christopher Guests producing such films as Waiting
for Guffman Beston's Show A Mighty Wind, And this was
the origin story of it all. As he portrays Marty
de Bergie does Rob Reiner in this intro to the
film This Is Spinal Tap.
Speaker 12 (09:47):
Hello, my name is Marty de Bergie. I'm a filmmaker.
I make a lot of commercials. That little dog that
chases the covered wagon underneath the sink that was mine.
In nineteen sixty six, I went down to Greenwich Village,
New York City, to a rock club called the Electric Banana.
(10:07):
Don't look for it, it's not there anymore. But that
night I heard a band that for me redefined the
word rock and roll. I remember being knocked out by
their exuberance, their raw power, and their punctuality. That band
was Britain's now legendary Spinal Tap. Seventeen years and fifteen
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albums later, Spinal Tap is still going strong and they've
earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of
England's loudest bands. So in the late fall of nineteen
eighty two, when I heard that Tap was releasing a
new album called Smell the Glove and was planning their
first tour of the United States in almost six years
(10:51):
to promote that album, well, needless to say, I jumped
at the chance to make the documentary, the if you
will rockumentary You're about to see. I wanted to capture
the sights, the sounds, the smells of a hard working
rock band on the road, and I got that, but.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I got more, a lot more.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
But hey, enough of my yakin, what do you say,
let's bookie.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
The sights, the sounds, the smells of life on the
road with Spinal Tap an absolute classic. If you haven't
seen it, or if you haven't seen it in a while,
definitely recommend revisiting it. It's just a classic of American cinema.
Gotta believe Shannon that you've seen Spinal Tap at some point.
This is Spinal Tap the film the originally one.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Of my favorite little hidden nuggets is the cold sores
that the band has at the opening and the closing
of the movie.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Correct. Yes, little attention to detail throughout the film, it
makes it brilliant. There's so many cameos in this too
that you might not remember or recognize, including from an
actor who would later star in one of Rob Reiner's
all time hits, when Harry Met Sally. We'll have a
clip from that coming up, and that's Billy Crystal.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Mime is money.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Mime is money, as he converses with Dana Carvey, portraying
one of the mimes there in one of the opening scenes.
Of course, Bruno Kirby plays the limo driver in this
Bobby Fleckman portrayed by fran Dresher. She steals the show
a lot of those lines. And all of this was
based on a loose script and improvised, so that's what
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made it feel sound so conversational and really appear to
be like a real documentary. And it would culminate just
this past year with Spinal Tap two. The end continues
and Rob Reiner did all the publicity and touring that
went along with that. He put the hat back on
that he wore portraying the character. The director Marty de Bergie.
(12:52):
Of course, he was the director both of the original
and of the sequel that came out not too so
much critical acclaim as the original does get a six
point five though on IMDb. I think that's relatively good,
especially for a sequel. Shannon mentioned one of the untold
moments that we kind of dig under the hood for,
but this is one of the over the top moments
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and Rob Ryner had a central role in this scene.
This one goes up to eleven. This is a top
to you know, what we use on stage.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
But it's very very special because if you can see, yeah,
the numbers all go to eleven. Look right across the board,
eleven or eleven, mostly eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Ams go up to ten. Exactly Does that mean it's louder?
Is that any louder?
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Well, it's one louder, isn't it. It's not ten? You
see most most blokes you're.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Gonna be playing at ten.
Speaker 14 (13:45):
You're on ten here, all the way up, all the
way up, all the way up.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go
from there?
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Well, I don't know exactly what we do is if
we need that extra push over the cliff, you know
we do put it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Up to a eleven exactly.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
One note, why don't you just make ten louder and
make ten be the top number and make.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That a little louder. These start to eleven, the pregnant pause.
It's everything. And also in this scene they cut away
from it. He's showing Nigel tough No portrayed by Christopher
Guesting and magically so all of his guitars and there's water.
He goes, don't touch it, don't look at it. I'm sorry.
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And playing the straight man there, Rob Reiner is Marty
de Bergie is everything. It makes the scene because it
allows Nigel toughnes it'll be so ridiculous in contrast here,
like this guy really believes what he's telling Marty de Bergie.
But we're all seeing this through the eyes of Marty
de Bergie, Like, dude, what do you talk about? This
one goes to eleven on the amplifier and then you
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know bands would have custom made amplifiers that went to eleven.
You need to extra push over the Cliff indeed remembering
Rob Reiner on this day, tragically murdered at the age
of seventy eight along with his wife last night. The
main suspect is his son Nick. I mean, it's just
so tragic on so many levels, especially this time of year.
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And then one more scene before we go to break
from another Rob Reiner classic, Mark Knopfleur with the soundtrack
on this Peter Falk playing the grandfather, Fred Savage as
the grandson reading him a book called The Princess Bride,
and this pivotal scene. We can sum it up simply
by saying, to the pain.
Speaker 15 (15:31):
But first things first, to the death, you know, to
the pain. I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Speaker 14 (15:43):
I'll explain, and I'll use small words so you'll be
sure to understand. You war tug faced buffoon.
Speaker 15 (15:52):
That maybe the first time in my life a man
has dared insult me.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
It won't be the last.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
The pain means the first thing you lose will be.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
Your feet below the ankles, then your hands at the wrists,
next to your nose.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And then my tongue.
Speaker 15 (16:08):
I suppose I killed you too quickly the last time,
a mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't mean to duplicate. Tonight, I wasn't finished.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
By your right, and then my ears. I understand. Let's
get on with it.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why, So
that every shriek of every child, and seeing your hideousness,
will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at
your approach, every woman who cries out, Dear God, what
is that thing?
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Will echo in your perfect ears. That is what the
pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing
in freakish misery forever I think you're bluffing. It's possible, pig,
I might be bluffing. Conceivable miserable vomitis, mass themony, lying
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here because I lack the strength to stand.
Speaker 14 (17:06):
Then again, perhaps I have the strength. After all, rock
your sword.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I have a seen.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Time up. I make it as tight as you like.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Hey, I thought it was with you. In that case,
what is worse than.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
This helping because there has no strength. I knew it.
I knew you were bluffing. I knew he was bluffing.
Carrie ELL's of course, as Wesley Chris Sarand and as
Prince Humperdink you heard as well Mandy Patinkin as a
Nigo Montoya. So many quotable moments from all of these
movies that will be reviewing. That goes to the writing,
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but it also goes to the directing of Rob Reiner
and the genius that these movies would become so many
e Miracle Max portrayed by Billy Crystal in this film
as well, and the notion of true love, that it's
a love story that a little boy hearing this story
doesn't want to hear about the kissing, but by the
end he has evolved to the point where his grandfather
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has brought him along that maybe it's not such a
bad thing after all. A fantasy and in this realm
Rob Reiner hits a home run. The rock documentary, the
rom con that we're coming up with after the Break
when Harry met Sally, the thriller that is Misery, which
was portrayed right here in Colorado, and the drama that
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was A Few Good Men. Rob Reiner really covered all
the bases, remembering his life after his murder allegedly by
his son stabbed a death along with his wife last
night Gone at the age of seventy eight, well much
more after this, including his words on the assassination of
Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
He first heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk, what
was your immediate gut reaction to it?
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Well, horror, absolute horror, And I unfortunately saw the video
of it, and it's beyond belief what happened to him,
and that sho had never happened to anybody. I don't
care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable. That's
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not a solution to solving problems. And I felt like
what his wife said at the service, that the memorial
they had was.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Exactly right, totally. I believe, you know, I'm Jewish.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
But I believe in the teachings of Jesus, and I
believe in doing two others, and I believe in forgiveness.
And what she said to me was beautiful and absolutely
you know, she forgave his assassin, and I think that
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is admirable.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Rob Reiner commenting on the assassination of Charlie Kirk in
its immediate aftermath three months ago and three months later,
the famed director and former actor on All in the Family,
as he was best known, dead at the age of
seventy eight, along with his wife, allegedly stabbed to death
last night, murdered in their own home by their own son,
(20:48):
Nick Reiner. He was thirty two. Just a terrible tragedy,
especially this time of year, but really a graceful note
that Rob Reiner struck there on Charlie Kirk. Hopefully that
we could all set aside political persuasions and our passions
and all of that, to know that these are human beings,
Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner, and no matter what your political
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affiliation is, that we recognize that first, that we don't
lose our humanity in this. And Rob Reiner didn't, and
I think that speaks well of him. And the fact
that it's even notable is concerning to me because there
were so many on the left that either tap danced
on Charlie's grave, made excuses or justified made excuses for,
(21:33):
or justified the assassination of Charlie Kirk because of his rhetoric,
or downright celebrated it with viral videos just demonic and depraved.
But Rob Reiner was not part of that. There were
other members of Hollywood. Jamie Lee Curtis would be another
one that similarly reacted with the proper amount of horror
(21:53):
and disgust that we do not politically target violence toward
our opponent, their adversaries in the political sense, their opponents
in the political realm. But we're all Americans, and Rob Reiner,
you know, he engaged in some very heated rhetoric about
his dislike for the president. I get that, But the
(22:17):
response from President Trump here is very personal, and it's
very disappointing on true social to me that he put
up this morning quote. A very sad thing happened last
night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but
once very talented movie director in comedy star, has passed
away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the
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anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable
affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement
syndrome all in capital letters, sometimes referred to as TEDS.
He was known to have driven people crazy in capitals
by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with
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his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration
surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with the
Golden Age of America upon us perhaps like never before.
May Rob and Michelle rest in peace well could have
used without that middle part there, and the President had
no basis to make that assumption or jump to that conclusion.
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We know that their son Nick was very unwell, was
an addict, struggled with mental illness. Rehab didn't really help him.
Rob Reiner even went as far as to make a
movie about him and about addiction. And this is very
personal to me because my own father is a recovering
alcoholic and I had to deal with this, this very
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real disease and the blight that it puts on families,
but then also the hope for renewal and recovery that
his president my own father, who has been sober now
for over twenty one years, and I'm very proud of
him for that. But there's no place for this from
what President Trump is saying, to make it about him
or to make it about Rob Briner's obsession with him.
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There is no causational direct link between whatever Rob Reiner
said about Trump and his son Nick's mental illness that,
for whatever reason we don't know, he is in custody.
Police have arrested him as a primary suspect. There's almost
no doubt that this individual Nick did this, stabbed his
parents to death. The why we don't know yet. I
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always try to hold on this axiom of we don't
know what, we don't know yet. You don't jump to conclusions,
you don't get ahead of this story. Now, if you're
on a PR crisis team, you want to get in
front of the story. That's different than getting ahead of
the story. And President Trump gets ahead of it here
and it's in very poor taste, and I think that
needs to be called out. Switching back to the movies
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that Rob Reiner made Again Dead at the age of
seventy eight, victim of homicide by his own son's hand,
and there's nothing that you can say about that that
will make sense of it. And especially during this holiday season.
I really liked what Rob said there too, about he's Jewish,
but he believes in the tenets and teachings of Jesus
about the kindness element of that, and that's so nice.
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You know, there are people that are called Messianic Jews
that have some faith and at least who Jesus Christ was,
and perhaps that he was a prophet, but they don't
believe that he's the Sire. And then there are those
that do believe he's the Messiah, but they hold on
to the Jewish tenets of faith, in the practice, in
the adhere to both the Old Testament and the New.
I'm not sure what Rob's exact religious feelings were. He
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kind of touched on them there, but I thought that
was a really nice touch as well, and a really
nice touch here in an uproarious rom com, most of
which I think, you know, guys are adverse to watching
something like Love. Actually you're like, I don't know about this,
but when Harry met Sally was one of those that
bridged the genders. I think women loved it and men
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loved it. Men felt like they could relate to Billy
Crystal and Bruno Kirby, and women felt like they could
root for in cheer on a Meg Ryan or a
Carrie Fisher. It was such a well constructed film from
start to finish, and in interspersed throughout the movie are
these actual couples, many of them elderly, telling their stories
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about how they met, how they fell in love, how
they made their marriages work after all these years. And
here is one of the closing scenes. In fact, I
believe it is the closing scene to the film, and
it takes place on New Year's Eve. Of course we'll
be celebrating that in just a couple of weeks. But
this again shows that the sheer genius of Rob Reiner
as a director, and of course the writing that went
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into it, the talent that performed at Billy Crystal. His
character is he's just so cynical about love that even
when he tells the woman he loves that he loves her,
it comes across this cynical. This is just brilliant.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I'm sorry, Harry.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
I know it's New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I know you're feeling lonely, but you just can't show
up here, tell me you.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Love me and expect that to make everything all right.
It doesn't work this way.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
How does it work?
Speaker 11 (26:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Not this way? How about this way.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I love that you get cold when it's seventy one
degrees now. I love that it takes you an hour
and a half to order a sandwich. I love that
you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're
looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after
I spend a day with you. I can still smell
your perfume on my clothes, and I love that you
are the last person I want to talk to you
before I go to sleep at night. And it's not
because I'm lonely. And it's not because this New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I came here tonight.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Because when you realize you want to spend the rest
of your life with somebody, you want the rest of
your life to start as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
You see, that is just like you, Harry.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
You say things like that, and.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
You make it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you, Harry,
I really hate you.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
What does this song mean my whole life? I don't
know what the song means. I mean, should all the
acquaintance be forgotten? Does that mean that we should forget
all acquaints? It doesn't mean that if we happen to
forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible
because we've already forgotten.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that
we forgot them or something.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Anyway, it's about old friends, just a wonderful, ending, humorous
till the last Channon? Is this one rom com that
you can actually tolerate? When Harry met Sally.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
I am actually a rom com guy. It's the top
of the list.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Really, this one is okay, there it is and again
directed by the great Rob Reiner, who we are remembering
after his tragic murder last night. He and his wife
killed in their own home, stabbed to death allegedly by
their own son, Nick, who had mental health problems addiction issues.
He was thirty two years old. Rob Reiner dead at
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the age of seventy eight. One last time out for
this hour we'll come back. Remember two more all time
great films that Rob Reiner directed after this on Ryan
Schuling Live That from The Princess Briane, the music arranged
by Mark Knopp Fleur different singer there and you can
hear that song, I believe in the end credits of
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that all time classic film from nineteen eighty seven. Remembering
Rob Reiner, the director on this day after his brutal
murder on Sunday evening at the hands it would appear
of his own son Nick at the age of thirty two,
stabbing to death both his parents, his mother and his father,
and Rob Reiner leaving us at the age of seventy eight,
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but leaving behind a legacy of filmmaking that's difficult to match.
And it crossed so many genres, including this one. A
thriller inspired for Stephen King in the book that he
originally wrote by Colorado, much the same way that The
Shining was. It was kind of a favorite destination for
Stephen King and the premise of this James Cons's character
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is a writer, Paul, and he is out here in
Colorado during a very tough time of the year weatherwise.
His car wrecks in a snowstorm. This Annie is out
there just happens to save him. And this is a
pivotal scene after which Paul, who had been cared for
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by Annie, but she did not like the fact that
he was trying to escape from his room and she
wanted him right where she could keep her eyes on him.
And then she made sure of it at the end
of this scene.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Wow, So if you I could just stay in place
in lad Boy.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I know you've been out.
Speaker 16 (31:09):
Why you've been out of your room or I haven't, Paul,
my little ceramic penguin in the study always faces due south.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
Is this what you're looking for? I know you've been
out twice.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Paul.
Speaker 16 (31:36):
First, I couldn't figure out how you did it. But
last night I found your key. I know I left
my scrap book out. I can imagine what you might
be thinking of me. But you see, Paul, it's all okay.
Last night it came so clear. I realize you just
need more time. Eventually you'll come to accept the idea
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of being here.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Paul.
Speaker 16 (32:02):
Do you know about the early days of the Kimberly
diamond mines? Do you know what they did to the
native workers who stole diamonds.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Don't worry, they didn't kill them.
Speaker 16 (32:12):
That would be like junking and Mercedes just because it
had a broken spring. No, if they caught them, they
had to make sure they could go on working.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But they also had to make sure they could never
run away. The operation was called hobbling.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
What if you think I'm not doing it for God?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Trust me, it's for the best. Almost done, Just one
more God, I love you, Kathy based an unforgettable performance
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is Annie and of course James Kahn is writer Paul
Sheldon and with the Hobbling there she mashes both of
his legs while he's secured in a bed with a
large Mallet Hammer, Swings and Connects. Just a harrowing tale
and a great movie based on a Stephen King novel.
Another one you might recall from nineteen ninety two. Again,
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all of these movies share one common threat, and that
is they are very quotable, They are very memorable, and
they are indelible images in your mind, created in our
own pop culture. This one was star studded in nineteen
ninety two, starring Jack Nicholson as Colonel Jessup and Tom
Cruise as the prosecuting JAG attorney. In this absolutely unforgettable courtroom.
Speaker 14 (33:57):
Scene, Lieutenant Kin record of the code red, because that's
what you told Lieutenant Kendrick to do.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Cut these guys, look, Shunner, trans your honor. You dufted
the log book yourself in coll Jessen, do you water
the code? You don't have to answer that question. I'll
answer the question you want answers. I think I'm entitled.
You want answer what the truth? You can't handle the truth? Son.
Speaker 17 (34:26):
We live in a world that has walls, and those
walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg.
Speaker 17 (34:35):
I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.
You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You
have that luxury, You have the luxury of not knowing
what I know that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives,
and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
To you, saves lives.
Speaker 17 (34:57):
You don't want the truth because deep down in places
you don't talk about it parties, you want me on
that wall. You need me on that wall. We use
words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as
the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use
them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor
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the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises
and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that
I provide, and then question the manner in which I provided.
I would rather you just said thank you and went.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
On your way.
Speaker 17 (35:31):
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
And stand a post.
Speaker 17 (35:35):
Either way, I don't give a.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Damn what you think you are entitled to. Did you
order the code writ I did the job. Did you
order the code rudder? Goddamn right, I did? Wow. Jack
Nicholson They're a powerful performance on the witness stand. You know,
as far as courtroom dramas go, a Few Good Men
is about as good as it gets. There's your Jack
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Nicholson tie in there well again remembering the life of
Rob Reiner, murdered on Sunday night along with his wife,
presumably by his own son, Nick, As Fox News is
now reporting, the LAPD has arrested Nick Reiner, the thirty
two year old son of seventy eight year old Rob Reiner,
in connection with his parents murder. Our prayers go out
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to Rob Reiner, his family, his fans, and all of
us who enjoyed so many of his films over all
these years. Rob Reiner dead at the age of seventy eight.
Stay tuned, Ryan Schuling live right here on six thirty
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