Friends are calling me in shock this evening…and not just friends who knew Rob Reiner well. The man was enormously well-liked…as an actor, a director, an activist and just a very pleasant, happy (most of the time) human being. I didn't know him very well but he was the kind of person you'd run into and you could just start talking to him like the two of you knew each other. His father was like that, too.
No one deserves to die like that but it's especially inappropriate for someone as creative and funny and friendly as Rob Reiner. He was a good man…a very good man.