Not (only) stabbed but throats slit.

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-wife-michele-throats-slit-family-member-argument/?fbclid=IwdGRleAOs9DFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeCKwYlgDJu2FlWmlZFV-lLagwa1SRRPpg3AvBjkfCpIM7Vhk7nqnhhavR7n8_aem_X2OXMH8PQko-I7pHrLajmg

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Not only that, it entirely possible to like an actor or a director for their on-screen work regardless of their personal politics.

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Sheesh I hope so. I think Chris Pratt is hilarious, but I can't imagine limiting my viewing to stuff with just him, Patricia Heaton and Kelsey Grammer.

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you left out Dean Cain, Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Adam Sandler

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Reiner became an angry, delusional, TDS-filled jackass, and he parroted the kind of nonsense that fills the minds of actual nut jobs who do things like attempt to assassinate anyone with an R by their name.

Sad this is how he and his wife went out, but honestly I don't feel a thing.

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But many of us do.

So true

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Reiner became an angry, delusional, TDS-filled jackass, and he parroted the kind of nonsense that fills the minds of actual nut jobs who do things like attempt to assassinate anyone with an R by their name.

Sad this is how he and his wife went out, but honestly I don't feel a thing.

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I don't feel a thing like sadness or depression or loss or whatever that he's dead.

It's still, to me, a cruel shame that he died the way he did.

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annie88 said:

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Some reports saying it a robbery murder.

We will just have to see.

It's sad that Rob Reiner became so weirdly insane about Trump because he directed some really good movies as well as being a good actor.

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Just sad to see this is how he goes out of he was murdered. Dont care who it is. No one deserves to go out like this.

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the last few minutes had to be so terrifying and evil

almost incomprehensible the evil and pain.

yikes.

he should have left hollywood moved to Tennessee and never seen his son again.

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As a parent... I'm not sure abandoning my child would not be as much torment.

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Archie Bunker was an amazing character!

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You know, I was about five when that show started and maybe 13 when it went off the air. I can remember it being on TV at night and a lot of it going over my head, especially the political stuff. But I still remember thinking Archie was funny. Edith was brilliant, and the constant bickering between him and meathead worked well. Even though Rob Reiner became such a putz in later life, but I certainly don't wish him dead.

His father Carl Reiner, who just died a few years ago, played Alan Brady on the Dick Van Dyke show. The show was originally supposed to be with him as the star, but it didn't test well.

A lot of people hated Archie's character, but if you really look back on it now it's brilliant. Because they weren't portraying him as being a really smart guy or being in the right they were making fun of him, but Carol Connor did the role so well that even though sometimes he said things that both right and wrong it was done in such a good way.

I have a lot more appreciation for it now.

I actually liked the Jeffersons spinoff on it. I thought George Jefferson was funny. Again a lot of it went over my head. I even remember in the early years the woman that played his mother was hilarious.

Fun fact. The woman that played Helen Willis on the Jeffersons was Lenny Kravitz' mother.

Now that I'm recalling all this, I feel pretty damn old.

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One of the differences between conservatives and lefties is we can see and understand someone's humanity. Regardless of what a true nutjob he was this is a tragedy and extremely sad. Prayers for all those affected.

Comedic genius:

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annie88 said:

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Some reports saying it a robbery murder.

We will just have to see.

It's sad that Rob Reiner became so weirdly insane about Trump because he directed some really good movies as well as being a good actor.

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Reiner was a nutjob LONG before Trump came around.

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He was extremely liberal leaning, but I would never say nut job. Seriously he directed some great movies. He just literally became unhinged with Trump.

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Disagree. He was one of the nuttiest and loudest lefties out there.

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annie88 said:

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annie88 said:

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Some reports saying it a robbery murder.

We will just have to see.

It's sad that Rob Reiner became so weirdly insane about Trump because he directed some really good movies as well as being a good actor.

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Reiner was a nutjob LONG before Trump came around.

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He was extremely liberal leaning, but I would never say nut job. Seriously he directed some great movies. He just literally became unhinged with Trump.

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Disagree. He was one of the nuttiest and loudest lefties out there.

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Yes he was a loud lefty and I didn't agree with any of his politics.
But I'm saddened to find out he is gone.
Prayers for the family.

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Not (only) stabbed but throats slit.

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/rob-reiner-wife-michele-throats-slit-family-member-argument/?fbclid=IwdGRleAOs9DFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeCKwYlgDJu2FlWmlZFV-lLagwa1SRRPpg3AvBjkfCpIM7Vhk7nqnhhavR7n8_aem_X2OXMH8PQko-I7pHrLajmg

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Good lord. I know the call came in 3:30pm, but surely that had to have been an attack in their sleep overnight to get them both like that. What a sick individual.

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Comedic genius:

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Now THAT'S comedy gold.

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milner79 said:

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Now THAT'S comedy gold.

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I think I remember that from when it originally aired. Since I have never bothered to watch reruns.

AITF was the first show where I saw the weirdness of what became the LGBTQ community. Archie's side job was driving a cab. One day a woman passed out in his cab, and he gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She came by the house to thank him for saving her life. During her visit to the house, she told them she was a transvestite which made Archie mad and confused the hell out of Edith. Quite frankly, I was confused as hell too.

A few years later came the TV show Soap which included Billy Christal as a gay person. IMO, Soap was a way funnier TV show, maybe the funniest show I have ever seen. Bob was that show's lightning rod, but it was hard to hate a ventriloquist dummy.

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Muy said:

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Reiner became an angry, delusional, TDS-filled jackass, and he parroted the kind of nonsense that fills the minds of actual nut jobs who do things like attempt to assassinate anyone with an R by their name.

Sad this is how he and his wife went out, but honestly I don't feel a thing.

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while that is mostly all true, I still feel like you should have a little more compassion. Nobody deserves to have their throat slit by their child

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Nobody in the world or the history of the world? Plenty of people that deserved it.

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i just had this conversation with my 10 year old grandson, I'm a sock\shoe person, he is a sock\sock person.

son is said to now be in custody.

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i just had this conversation with my 10 year old grandson, I'm a sock\shoe person, he is a sock\sock person.

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What's it like knowing that your 10 year old grandson already has life figured out better than you do?

Such a classic!

And for the record, it's sock/sock, then shoe/shoe.

This isn't even up for debate.

I bet sock/shoe people drive in the left lane without passing people, too.

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My understanding was this whole bit was ad-libbed. Reiner and O'Conner were just running with it. Still one of the funniest exchanges in any sit-com.

I think we learned that Meathead wasn't acting on All in the Family.

I just don't want to know any more about this. I cannot fathom the level of evil required for a grown man to go into his parents home and murder them in cold blood.

I never cease to be disappointed in how disappointing human nature is.

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Comedic genius:

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If you enjoy comedy and the acting genius of Carroll O'Connor, get a copy of 'The Cheyenne Social Club' with Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, & O'Connor. It's one of the best comedies ever made.

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I was in Dublin in 2014 after Robin Williams' death. I've never forgotten this article in the Irish Times Sunday paper...

Why the death of Robin Williams triggers an unquestioned outpouring of grief The Irish Times

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The death of Robin Williams was a sad event...

I was sorry to hear the news, but I did not cry or experience anything like proper grief. After all, I am not related to Robin Williams. I have never met Robin Williams. I know nobody directly affected by his loss.
That all seems sane enough. Out there in the wider world, however, millions of strangers found themselves "devastated" and "bereft" at the news. A random sampling of Twitter drags up a surprising number of users who "can't stop crying".

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There were reports of women flinging themselves from windows when actor Rudolph Valentino croaked in 1926. But the princess of Wales's death [Diana] marked the point at which recreational grieving reached epidemic proportions.

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'recreational grieving' is the takeaway phrase I still use all the time after mass shootings, untimely deaths of people from my TV, etc...like most people, I can barely manage my own emotional life, much less take on (at some minor level) the optional burden of having feelings for these unfortunate people.

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milner79 said:

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Comedic genius:

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If you enjoy comedy and the acting genius of Carroll O'Connor, get a copy of 'The Cheyenne Social Club' with Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, & O'Connor. It's one of the best comedies ever made.

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He was also great in Kelly's Heroes.

Recreational grieving.

Accurate term. My first observation of it was when Elvis died.

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I was in Dublin in 2014 after Robin Williams' death. I've never forgotten this article in the Irish Times Sunday paper...

Why the death of Robin Williams triggers an unquestioned outpouring of grief The Irish Times

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The death of Robin Williams was a sad event...

I was sorry to hear the news, but I did not cry or experience anything like proper grief. After all, I am not related to Robin Williams. I have never met Robin Williams. I know nobody directly affected by his loss.
That all seems sane enough. Out there in the wider world, however, millions of strangers found themselves "devastated" and "bereft" at the news. A random sampling of Twitter drags up a surprising number of users who "can't stop crying".

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There were reports of women flinging themselves from windows when actor Rudolph Valentino croaked in 1926. But the princess of Wales's death [Diana] marked the point at which recreational grieving reached epidemic proportions.

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'recreational grieving' is the takeaway phrase I still use all the time after mass shootings, untimely deaths of people from my TV, etc...like most people, I can barely manage my own emotional life, much less take on (at some minor level) the optional burden of having feelings for these unfortunate people.

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I don't know about everyone but you have to realize that it's not always 'recreational'. For many of us growing up, these shows were in our family, in our living room, every day. They were part of our life. As such, these characters and actors are part of our family in a way. We didn't live in a time when we could just stream whatever. We had to force ourselves to allow a slot in life to watch TV and these shows/actors. I still get surprised when I see Alan Alda at his age, old, etc because I still know the very young and snarky Hawkeye from MASH. It is not unusual, in fact, I consider it psychopathic, to not feel some level of sorrow or loss over things like this.

I'll bet there's a majority of psychologists who'll disagree. It's probably neurotic to voyeuristically involve your emotions...

If there's a usable takeaway for me, it's that there's significant risk in having addicts and criminals in and around your family.