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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Crystal remembered his best friend Rob Reiner in an extended and emotional in memoriam at the Oscars on Sunday, with Barbra Streisand honoring her friend and co-star Robert Redford by singing a snippet from their film “The Way We Were.”
Crystal opened the segment that was longer than usual because of the number of Hollywood heavyweights who died over the last year.
Crystal first met Reiner in 1975 when he guested on “All in the Family.”
“And it went so well, Rob said, ‘It was so much fun playing your best friend, why don’t we keep it going?’” Crystal said. “And it was a thrill seeing him evolve from a great comic actor to a master storyteller.”
Crystal recounted such Reiner films as “The Princess Bride, ”When Harry Met Sally, “A Few Good Men,” “Say Anything,” and “This is Spinal Tap.” The segment ended with over a dozen stars from those films — including Meg Ryan, Kiefer Sutherland, Fred Savage, Demi Moore, John Cusack and Ione Skye — standing together on stage.
Reiner, an actor-director, and his wife, photographer Michelle Singer, both in their 70s, were ...
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