Veteran Hollywood director, wife found dead in LA home, murder suspected

Veteran Hollywood director Rob Reiner (78) and his wife Michele Singer were found dead at their Los Angeles home on Sunday, according to reports.

The bodies, found side by side, indicated a homicide where both the victims were reportedly stabbed to death, revealed initial investigation.

Reiner was known for the 1980s’ classic ‘When Harry Met Sally’, a movie that exhibited how Michele changed his life.

The movie almost had quite a different ending, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

During an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, Reiner had revealed that his and Nora Ephron’s script originally had a sadder ending for Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan).

“It was going to be the two of them seeing each other after years, talking and then walking away from each other,” Reiner told Wallace, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I had been married for 10 years. I’d been single for 10 years, and I couldn’t figure out how I was ever going to be with anybody, and that gave birth to ‘When Harry Met Sally’.”

Reiner continued, “I met my wife Michele, who I’ve been married to now for 35 years. I met her while we were making the film, and I changed the ending.” When Wallace asked if fans have Michele to thank for the tear-jerker finale, Reiner said, “That’s right.”

Since ‘When Harry Met Sally’ was released in 1989, the final moments of the film have gone down in rom-com history as some of the most iconic ever.

To this day, the movie is a beloved rom-com, and Crystal thinks the reason why is “because it’s the truth”.

He had told ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ when celebrating the film’s 30th anniversary in 2019, “It’s an amazing movie, I have to say, because there’s no plot. In typical romantic comedies, they go through so much: their adversity, he had to move, he got drafted, he’s in the Army, he came back, they found each other again – no. The obstacle in this movie is themselves.”

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