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Billy Crystal Revealed the Details of His Final Conversation With Rob Reiner

The longtime friends knew each other for close to 50 years.

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Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner first met when Crystal guest-starred on the classic CBS sitcom All in the Family in January 1976. The episode “New Year’s Wedding” featured Crystal as Reiner’s character’s best friend, Al Bender, in what also happened to be Crystal’s television debut. The pair quickly struck up a real friendship that lasted nearly 50 years. As you’ve probably heard by now, Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home this past December of an apparent homicide.

On the April 12 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Crystal opened up about the loss of his longtime friend........

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