Michele Singer Reiner, photographer and creative partner to Rob Reiner, dead at 70

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Michele Singer Reiner, who was killed along with her husband, filmmaker Rob Reiner, on Sunday at their home in Los Angeles, was a photographer who moved from still images into filmmaking and later into producing, with work that blended performance, politics and persuasion.She was 70.Singer Reiner was gigging as a photographer in the late 1980s, visiting film sets as part of her income.

One of those sets was “When Harry Met Sally …,” the romantic comedy Rob Reiner was directing in New York, a film that would go on to become one of the era’s defining hits.Having divorced actor and director Penny Marshall eight years earlier, Reiner said he noticed his future wife across the set and was immediately drawn to her.Scripted by Nora Ephron, the film was originally written to leave its central couple, played by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, separate, crossing paths over the years without ending up together.

But after meeting Singer Reiner, Reiner reconsidered.He rewrote the final scene so the characters reunite and marry, an ending that helped make the film a beloved classic.

California Rob Reiner, a Hollywood scion who directed films including ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and ‘The Princess Bride,’ was found dead with his wife Sunday in Brentwood.He was 78.The two married in 1989, months after the film’s release.

They went on to have three children: Jake, born in 1991; Nick, born in 1993; and Romy, born in 1997.Hours after the couple were found dead at their Brentwood home, Nick Reiner — who had struggled for years with substance-abuse issues — was taken into custody and booked into Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of murder, according to jail records.He had spoken publicly about getting sober by 2015, when he worked with his father on “Being Charlie,” a semi-autobiographical film about addiction and recovery that Rob Reiner directed and Nick co-wrote.After their...