Overview
- The New York Times published Scorsese’s remembrance on December 25, offering a personal reflection on Rob and Michele Reiner.
- Scorsese recalls meeting Rob Reiner in the early 1970s and writes that they shared an immediate connection and a New York sensibility.
- He cites Misery as his favorite Reiner film and praises This Is Spinal Tap, while noting he cast Reiner in The Wolf of Wall Street.
- In the essay, Scorsese writes that “what happened to Rob and Michele is an obscenity, an abyss in lived reality.”
- Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead on December 14, the medical examiner attributed their deaths to multiple sharp-force injuries, and their son Nick has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder with an arraignment set for January 7.