"The horrific news from Los Angeles Sunday night, that filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Reiner, 70, were found murdered in their Brentwood home and that their own son, Nick, stood charged with their deaths capped a weekend of violent news. A shooter at Brown University killed two and wounded nine. The violence at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia left 15 dead and 40 injured."
"On our TV and movie screens, Reiner came to represent a friendly face of the American liberal left. Reiner rose to stardom in the 1970s on the blockbuster sitcom All in the Family. It happened alongside that of actors like Alan Alda on M*A*S*H, Bea Arthur on Maude, Esther Rolle on Good Times, and Bonnie Franklin on One Day at a Time -all during a run of topically minded primetime TV programming that amplified liberal politics at a moment unlike any other in"
Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele, 70, were found murdered in their Brentwood home, and their son Nick was charged with the killings. The murders occurred amid a weekend that included a shooter at Brown University, an attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia, and an ambush in Syria that killed two American soldiers and a translator. Reiner gained prominence from the late 1960s onward, writing for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and starring as Mike Stivic on All in the Family. His career symbolized a friendly liberal presence in mainstream primetime television and helped bring topical political discourse to popular entertainment.
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