Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. 'I will never understand why:" Jake Reiner opens up about parents' slaying and brother's arrest Honoree Rob Reiner poses with his wife, Michele, and children Jake, center, Romy and Nick at the Chaplin Award Gala in 2014. Nick was indicted after his parents were fatally stabbed in December. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Eight months after Rob and Michele Reiner were fatally stabbed in their Brentwood home, son Jake opens up, describing his parents' deaths and brother's arrest as a "living nightmare." A grand jury has indicted younger son Nick Reiner on double-murder charges with special allegations of lying in wait, leaving him facing life without parole or the death penalty. Jake recalls learning of the killings during a memorial, confronting the surreal crime scene at his childhood home and honoring his parents with sister Romy in an emotional Dodger Stadium first pitch. Eight months have passed since Rob and Michele Reiner were killed and their youngest son was arrested and charged with murder, but the couple's eldest son still feels he "will never understand why this happened." The children of film director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Reiner mostly have kept mum despite extensive coverage of the brutal stabbings of Dec. 14, 2025. In a television interview with ABC News, Jake Reiner, the eldest son, described the aftermath of the slayings and the arrest of his brother, Nick, as a "living nightmare." "Nobody really understands what it's like to go through something like that until you're living it," said Jake, 34. It feels like eight years at the same time. And it also feels like eight minutes because every moment that I wake up, I'm reminded of my reality."

In Sex Reviews, writers offer a sober critical assessment of the sex scenes in new films and television series. This installment contains spoilers for Babygirl. Nestled amid a nice little set of Christmas releases is Babygirl, an erotic thriller set during the holidays, written and directed by Halina Reijn of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies fame. The film stars Nicole Kidman as Romy, a work-addicted CEO of a robotics company, who lives with her play-directing, gray-goatee-sporting husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas) and two teenage daughters in a gorgeous Manhattan apartment. Romy's creeping dissatisfaction with the rounds of Botox, therapy, and meetings that make up her life comes to a head when she meets Samuel, an intern at her company, played by hyper-handsome English actor Harris Dickinson. In fits and starts, the Gen X Romy and Gen Z Samuel discover that they have a very particular type of chemistry: She wants to be told what to do, and he's willing to tell her.

In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which she appeared to promote Tesla's new A.I. robot, Optimus. In a video on X, captioned "Meet my new friend," Kardashian is seen engaging with Elon Musk's humanoid golem, which reportedly retails for around thirty thousand dollars, and whose metal torso is inscribed with the Tesla logo. "O.K., hi!" she says perkily, off camera, as she waves her manicured fingers just within frame--a motion that is immediately echoed by the robot. "Can you do this: 'I love you'?" she asks next, forming a half heart with her hand, proffering it to the robot to urge him to complete the shape, and gasping in awe as he eagerly complies. But Optimus, who in the video seems more than happy to be at his mistress's beck and call, appears less subservient in a series of pictures in which Kardashian, wearing spike heels and lingerie, poses beside him and a gold Tesla Cybercab.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Dean Kamen's DEKA R&D firm, with support from DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program, designed the advanced prosthetic LUKE Arm to give amputees "dexterous arm and hand movement through a simple, intuitive control system." The LUKE Arm, which stands for Life Under Kinetic Evolution but is also a reference to Luke Skywalker's bionic hand, "allows users to control multiple joints simultaneously and provides a variety of grips and grip forces by means of wireless signals generated by sensors worn on the feet or via other easy-to-use controllers."