Rob Reiner Deserved a Happily Ever After

Rob Reiner Deserved a Happily Ever After

The first time I met Rob Reiner, back in the summer of 2018, in a restaurant near his home in Brentwood, I mock reprimanded him for setting the bar too high for us, the kids who grew up on his movies. If the first comedy you watch is This Is Spinal Tap, you are doomed ever after to disappointment. “Aw, but it really was all Chris and Michael and Harry,” he insisted, referring to Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, the film’s le…