Grotesque, Shocking, Ghastly

Rob Reiner…good God. Murdered. Late Sunday afternoon the famed director, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found stabbed to death in their flush Brentwood home on South Chadbourne Ave. (south of Sunset).

Reiner’s 32 year-old son Nick, who co-wrote Being Charlie, a decade-old, well-intentioned family melodrama, directed by the elder Reiner and based on Nick’s own teenaged struggle with drugs and homelessness, has been identified as the assailant. Being Charlie premiered at TIFF in September ‘15. Nobody saw it, a critical bust. streaming on Fandango.

YouTube link…this is getting more and more surreal.

10:45 am Monday: Talk about psychotic and deranged behavior…President Trump has posted that “anger” triggered by the elder Reiner’s intense, years-long criticism of Trump’s policies and impulsive style of governing was somehow a factor in his killing.