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Until Sunday’s shocking double murders, few families seemed more isolated from the dark side of life than the Rainers.
for decades, rob renner And his father, Carl, embodied a gentle, optimistic spirit American culture, whether dick van dykeTheir adorable antics on the show named after them and created by Carl, or the openly sentimental ending to Rob’s “When Harry Met Sally…”, are now seen as the kind of romantic comedies they don’t make anymore. Carl Reiner called his son his favorite director, while Rob remembers being so impressed by his father that he wanted to change his first name to Carl.
This was a dynasty that was free of jealousy, skepticism and anger, or ambulances and police tape and 911 calls. Carl Reiner was married to his wife, estelleFor over 60 years; Rob to his wife, Michelle, since 1989. Few people would have imagined that “booked for murder” would appear in a sentence about any of them. But on Monday, Los Angeles police announced that 32-year-old Nick Renner was in custody on suspicion of murdering his parents, Rob and Michelle.
“He was one of my closest friends,” Maria Shriver wrote on the threads. “We laughed together, cried together, played together, dreamed together. We had dinner together last week, and they were in the best place of their lives.”
Actor-producer Rita Wilson wrote in an Instagram post that “it is impossible to reconcile the tragedy of his death with the beauty he gave the world.”
Renners never pretended to like everyone. Carl Reiner, who died in 2020, appeared two years ago in an anti-Donald Trump ad urging like-minded citizens to vote during the midterm elections. Rob Reiner was a liberal who for years described Trump as a threat to democracy, and on Monday the president labeled him a victim of “Trump derangement syndrome.”
But Rainers’ politics, even at his most angry, was rooted in persuasion and civic engagement, the belief that the right words could bring justice and liberation. In “A Few Good Men”, Robb’s adaptation of the Aaron Sorkin play, an inexperienced Navy defense lawyer outwits a bullying commander into confessing his complicity with the death of a young private. “The American President”, released in 1995 by the Renner-Sorkin collaboration During the Presidency Bill Clinton‘s first stint, was a liberal fairy tale about a vacillating chief executive who rediscovers his principles – and finds love with an environmental lobbyist.
Former President Barack Obama wrote on X, “In every story he (Rob Reiner) wrote, he had a deep belief in the goodness of people – and a lifelong commitment to putting that belief into action.”
As liberal Mike Stivic on “All in the Family”, Reiner constantly argued with his bigoted father-in-law, Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O’Connor), but never seemed to reconcile with him. After a particularly heated argument, Stivic’s mother-in-law, Edith (Jean Stapleton), explains to him that Archie’s anger stems from resentment that Mike is young and has his life ahead of him.
When he sees Archie again, Mike hugs him: “I understand,” he says.
It appears that Nick Renner’s acknowledged struggles have also been resolved. In his teenage years, he was in and out of treatment facilities and at times homeless. But by 2015, the two had worked together on “Being Charlie,” a semi-autobiographical film about a young addict and his tensions with his famous father. Both would say that the project brought them closer. The movies have proven to be a mutual passion, Nick Reiner told People magazine at the time. Rob Reiner told The Associated Press that he has faced up to his mistakes as a parent.
“We didn’t go into it thinking it would be therapeutic or bring us closer, but it turned out that way,” Rob Reiner told the AP. “It forced us to understand ourselves better than ever before. I told Nick when we were making it, I said, ‘You know what, no matter what happens with this thing, we’ve already won. It’s already been good.'”