All of us must have a lot of special memories of Rob Reiner's work and activism [View all]

I couldn't post anything last night. Couldn't bear to read more.

I'm old enough to remember watching All In The Family, and loving it. And just months ago I posted an interview he did about Spinal Tap II in the Lounge and Music Appreciation.

But the first memory that came to mind, last night, was of The Princess Bride. Which I'd first seen, and loved, when it was released in the 1980s.

And then saw or at least listened to dozens of times in the 1990s, because it was the favorite film of a niece of mine, and I did a lot of babysitting for my brother and sister-in-law then. My niece wanted to see the film almost every time she was here. If she was here for the weekend instead of the evening, she might watch it more than once.

It was such a magical film that she never got tired of it. And though I didn't watch it again all the way through with her after the first couple of times she watched it here - I appreciated that it kept her so happily distracted I could get some work done - I still always enjoyed what I saw or heard of the film, every single time she had it on. I don't know if that would have been true of any other film, but I doubt it.

Rob Reiner worked magic in countless lives, in so many ways.

I've been in tears much of this morning, catching up on social media and seeing all the messages about him. Way too many to share.

But this one I had to share.

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