Sitting, from left, film director Rob Reiner, teacher Janice Hall, and Assemblywoman Wilma Chan, D-Oakland, read a story to 5-year-old children in 2004, at St. Vincent's Day Home in Oakland, Calif. Reiner championed a state initiative to raise tobacco taxes to pay for children's education and health care. Today, we mourn the deeply tragic death of Rob Reiner, a man known best for an impressive range of film classics.