‘This is Spinal Tap’ director Rob Reiner has been killed

The director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered in their Los Angeles home. According to TMZ, the couple’s bodies were found yesterday afternoon and appeared to have “lacerations consistent with a knife.” The Los Angeles Police Department and the Robbery and Homicide Division are investigating.

Rob Reiner, 78 years old, he was the son of writer/actor/director Carl Reiner. He acted from 1971 to 1978 in the role of Michael “Meathead” Stivic in the television series “Archibald”he then directed highly successful films such as “Stand by Me”, “Misery Must Not Die”, “Code of Honor” And “Harry, meet Sally”. But his first directorial effort, in 1984, was linked to music with the false documentary, a parody of the hard rock scene, “This Is Spinal Tap”.

Reiner directed, co-wrote and played the film’s fictional director, Marty DiBergiwhich chronicled the British rockers’ disastrous album launch and U.S. tour Spinal Tap (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest And Harry Shearer), now in decline. The film’s apt portrayal of rock’n’roll behavior and clichés is legendary.

Speaking to People earlier this year about ‘Spinal Tap’ Rob Reiner he had stated: “We’re the first generation to grow up with rock’n’roll, we love rock’n’roll! So, finding that line between paying homage to and loving rock’n’roll and at the same time making fun of it, was a difficult line to walk. Pretty much everything that happens is drawn from something we experienced with other people, because in the late ’60s, between the world of rock’n’roll and the world of improvisation, which is where I come from, there was some sort of contamination, so I was very aware of what happens on tour, and we heard stories from people we knew.”