Martin Scorsese shared a heartfelt tribute to the late Ron Reiner - from one director to another. "Rob Reiner was my friend, and so was Michele," Scorsese, 83, wrote in an essay published via The New York Times on Thursday, December 25. "From now on, I'll have to use the past tense, and that fills me with such profound sadness. But there's no other choice." Scorsese reflected on meeting Rob in the early 1970s through mutual friends in Los Angeles. "Rob and I were both Eastern transplants, in a way.