{"id":314184,"date":"2026-03-05T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:19:10","slug":"meg-ryan-and-billy-crystal-to-reunite-for-oscars-tribute-to-rob-reiner-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314184\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal to reunite for Oscars tribute to Rob Reiner: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reiner, met his future wife during production of the film, with their romance prompting him to change the movie\u2019s original ending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner was allegedly seen behaving erratically at a party he attended with his parents at the home of comedian Conan O\u2019Brien the evening before their killings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A massage therapist reportedly arrived at the Reiners\u2019 home for an appointment the following morning. However, when the couple did not answer the door, the therapist contacted their daughter, Romy, who discovered her father\u2019s body. Paramedics later informed her that her mother had also been killed.<\/p>\n

Nick Reiner was arrested that night<\/a> and faces two counts of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s deaths prompted an outpouring of grief across the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

Crystal and a group of Rob Reiner\u2019s frequent collaborators, including Martin Short, Albert Brooks and Larry David, released a joint tribute, calling Reiner a master of his craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsorbing all he had learned from his father Carl and his mentor Norman Lear, Rob Reiner not only was a great comic actor, he became a master storyteller,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no other director who has his range. From comedy to drama to \u2018mockumentary\u2019 to documentary he was always at the top of his game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe charmed audiences. They trusted him. They lined up to see his films.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the Reiner tribute, Variety reported the Oscars were also in negotiations with Barbra Streisand to sing a tribute to Robert Redford, her The Way We Were co-star who died last year, aged 89<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Zealand viewers can watch the Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O\u2019Brien, live on Disney+ on Monday, March 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reiner, met his future wife during production of the film, with their romance prompting him to change the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95,17466,430,168,14218,3936,156,2082,7568,70733,111,139,1536,69,2584,116559,1560,17182,9874,77461,5128,21499,61,20838,4518],"class_list":["post-314184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-and","tag-billy","tag-celebrities","tag-ceremony","tag-crystal","tag-director","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-honour","tag-meg","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-oscars","tag-reiner","tag-report","tag-reportedly","tag-reunite","tag-rob","tag-ryan","tag-slain","tag-to","tag-tribute","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}