per the New York Post. <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI always enjoyed his company. I met him at his Dad\u2019s in 1975,\u201d Idle continued. \u201cHe was telling me about filming at Stonehenge and his thoughts for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reiner\u2019s father was comedy legend Carl Reiner. <\/p>\n
Idle said, \u201cThis is so awful. I shall miss him. A clever, talented and very thoughtful man. So awful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deadline reported that Reiner, director of iconic films like \u201cA Few Good Men,\u201d \u201cThe Princess Bride\u201d and \u201cSpinal Tap,\u201d was working on a reboot of the famous British comedy series \u201cFawlty Towers,\u201d starring Idle\u2019s \u201cMonty Python\u201d alum John Cleese. <\/p>\n
Reiner and his wife were set to produce the reboot through Reiner\u2019s Castle Rock Entertainment.<\/p>\n
Reiner shot to fame as the hippie son-in-law Michael \u201cMeathead\u201d Stivic on the legendary TV show \u201cAll in the Family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rob and Michele Reiner were discovered stabbed to death by their daughter, Romy, in their Brentwood, Ca., home on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Romy Reiner told police that a \u201cdangerous\u201d relative should be sought in the killings. <\/p>\n
Authorities later arrested the Reiners\u2019 son, Nick, in the slaying. <\/p>\n
Nick has a history of drug addiction and homelessness, the police said. <\/p>\n
The Reiner family has released a statement after the killings. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,\u201d the family told Variety. \u201cWe are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMonty Python\u201d star Eric Idle has revealed that he spoke to director Rob Reiner for an hour on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-72056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}