Martin Scorsese mourns Rob Reiner, condemns his murder as an 'obscenity'
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, lost their lives on Sunday, December 14, when they were allegedly killed by their son, Nick Reiner. Since then, several celebrities have remembered the late couple and the good times they shared.
Much like most of Hollywood, filmmaker Martin Scorsese also fondly remembered his friend, Rob Reiner, in a New York Times essay published on December 25.
The Academy Award winner recalled his and Rob Reiner’s friendship and professional bond, as he slammed the couple’s murder by calling it an “obscenity.”
Martin Scorsese talks about grief after the Reiners' deaths
Towards the end of the New York Times essay, Scorsese said what happened to Rob and Michele was an obscenity, and "an abyss in lived reality."
He said that the only thing that would help him accept the couple’s demise was the “passing of time.”
Scorsese stated that much like all of Rob and Michele’s friends, he had to be “allowed” to imagine them “alive and well.”
The director believed that one day he would be at a dinner or a party and find himself next to Rob and hear him laugh. He added that he could see Reiner’s “beatific face and laugh at his stories” and relish the late director’s “natural comic timing.”
“And feel lucky all over again to have him as a friend,” he added.
Martin Scorsese recalls early friendship with Rob Reiner
Scorsese wrote that he and Rob Reiner got to know each other in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. He said that he and Rob were both “Eastern transplants” and said that the late director moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was young.
He added that Rob came from New York "show business royalty" as his mother was a “wonderful singer and actress” while his father was on 'Your Show of Shows'.
Recalling the early days of their friendship, Martin Scorsese said that he loved “hanging out” with Rob Reiner and said they had a “natural affinity” for each other. He described Reiner as “hilarious” and “bitingly funny” but not someone who would “take over the room.”
“He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment,” he added.
