It was not the best start to the day to wake up and find that Rob Reiner and his wife Michele had been murdered, apparently by their son Nick, who'd co-written the drug addiction drama Being Charlie in 2015 which his dad directed.
Rob and his films were never far away from us. We lately saw him in Sleepless in Seattle. We were thinking how great it must have been to have this former actor and son of a great comedian and genuinely nice guy direct you.
In Aaron Sorkin's screenplay, there's an American President who couldn't be more unlike the present one, who's already hit the headlines making thoroughly disparaging remarks about Reiner that even Republicans have abhorred. Would a President's ratings really start falling if he began dating? I wouldn't have thought so. Nor do I believe that just because a President was in a wheelchair (Woodrow Wilson) he wouldn't have been voted for - this is a slight distortion as he suffered the stroke while he was still in office, which left him incapacitated.
Reiner (I read) thought Stand By Me his first real achievement as it was a film unlike any his father had made.
William Goldman's beloved story The Princess Bride was the second choice. Billy Crystal as the medicine man is hilarious. "Andre was by far the most popular figure I have ever been around on a movie set." (William Goldman.)
"As you wish."
It was also an editor Robert Leighton double bill. And he is I'm sure as gutted as the rest of us.
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