EXCLUSIVE: It’s now that point of the yr when In Memoriam lists are being compiled and posted commemorating those that handed in 2025. For New York Occasions readers selecting up the paper as we speak, amidst tributes to Diane Keaton, David Lynch, Angie Stone and 20 others, two names had been noticeably absent from the Grey Woman’s “The Lives They Lived” part.
Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.
For a Hollywood neighborhood deeply saddened and shaken by the December 14 homicide of the Reiners, because the tributes to the lengthy married duo from presidents, producers, administrators, actors, brokers and collaborators have made clear the previous two weeks, the Distress director and his photographer partner’s nonappearance on the NYT Magazine’s eccentric annual tally has raised quite a lot of eyebrows.
“Is it as a result of they had been violently killed?” one C-Suiter texted me this AM as he sat right down to learn his Sunday paper. One other business insider puzzled if the Martin Scorsese penned Christmas Day op-ed on his friendship with fellow filmmaker Reiner was the substitute for a “The Lives They Lived” piece.
Neither principle is true. It was, like so many issues, all about timing.
“The Lives They Lived is a New York Occasions Journal function,” the NYT’s Danielle Rhoades Ha informed me as we speak. “Although the print publication date is Dec. 16, the content material was finalized and despatched for publication on Dec. 11 — three days earlier than Rob Reiner’s dying,” the SVP Communications added.
Actually, apart from the breaking information A bit, many of the usually hefty NYT is totally locked in and printed days earlier than it hits newsstands and doorstep. The overwhelming majority of the Sunday version’s articles can be found on the paper’s web site normally three or 4 days beforehand, together with “The Lives They Lived.”
Found lifeless by their daughter Romy and a pal on December 14 on the couple’s Brentwood dwelling, the Reiners had been killed by a number of stab wounds. Within the hours that adopted on that first evening of Hanukkah, police tracked down and arrested the Reiner’s youngest son Nick.
Set for a full listening to on January 7, the 32-year-old, who has very publicly fought drug dependancy for over a decade, has now been charged with two depend of first-degree homicide. Because the LA County DA made clear on December 16, the presently incarcerated with out bail Nick Reiner faces the potential of the dying penalty or life behind bars with out parole if discovered responsible.
Over the previous two weeks, the NYT has printed and posted round 50 articles on the Reiners’ deaths, legacy and response to their murders since that tragic evening of December 14 The paper has additionally had detailed protection on Nick Reiner‘s arrest and subsequent costs because the 78-year-old director and the 68-year-old photographer had been reported deceased.
The final SNL of 2025 noticed a on-screen tribute to Reiner, who hosted the NBC late-nighter’s third ever episode in 1975, on the finish of its December 21 airing. Tributes to the When Harry Met Sally director and All within the Household actor are anticipated on the Golden Globes and the March 15, 2026 Oscars.
Whereas a variety of public figures from as far throughout the political spectrum as John Cussak to James Woods, to not point out shut Renier mates like Barack and Michelle Obama (who had been purported to have dinner on December 14 with the Reiners at ex-Ambassador James Costos and Micheal Smith’s LA dwelling) Billy Crystal, Larry David, Meg Ryan and AITF co-star Sally Struthers, have provided reward for Reiner and condolences on his dying, a petulant Donald Trump has lashed out on the filmmaker twice in fast succession.
On December 15, lower than 24 hours after the Reiners’ mangled stays had been discovered, Trump referred to as The American President director “deranged” and “unhealthy for America” for his advocacy and critiques of the shamelessly skinny skinned ex-Apprentice host.
