The entertainment industry has lost a beloved figure with the passing of KTLA Entertainment Reporter Sam Rubin at the age of 64. Rubin was a fixture in Hollywood, known for his sharp wit and insightful commentary on all things entertainment. His career spanned decades, during which he interviewed countless celebrities and covered some of the biggest events in the industry.
Rubin's passion for entertainment was evident in every segment he delivered, and his dedication to his craft earned him respect from both his colleagues and viewers alike. His presence will be sorely missed on the red carpet and in the studio, as he brought a unique perspective to every story he covered.
Rubin joined the station’s morning news team in 1991. He conducted upbeat live interviews with actors and musicians from behind the anchor desk and was a mainstay at premiere red carpets and movie junkets. His final interview was with Jane Seymour on Thursday.
Seymour joined Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Ben Stiller, Guillermo del Toro, Kiefer Sutherland, Octavia Spencer and other Hollywood figures in mourning Rubin on social media.
The veteran actor said Rubin also had a talent for “getting you to open up like a flower.” Winkler added, “My heart goes out to his family, to you, his colleagues. He will be so missed. I am so overwhelmed that he won’t be here with us.”
In his interviews, Rubin often seemed like a fan who had lucked into a job as a entertainment journalist. Not that he wasn’t anything less than a very talented professional broadcast journalist. He just so clearly loved his work in a pinch-me-do-I-really-get-to-do-this way.
Often he might open an interview with some off-the-wall question to catch a media-trained entertainer off guard as a way to break the ice.
The longtime Los Angeles anchor herself wondered who would be able to fill the anchor chair that Rubin left behind.
“It will be very hard to move on past that, but he would want that. And he would want all of us to remember him and think of him and smile because he did that for other people,” Romero said. “He would give them light. What people are doing now is they’re giving him the light that he deserves.”
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