In the hushed gathering where stories of Hollywood’s golden eras still lingered, no one quite anticipated that Micky Dolenz — the last voice of the Monkees’ irreverent joy, now tempered by decades — would rise unannounced to sing a gentle, unbroken farewell to Rob Reiner and his beloved wife, the room falling into a profound and shared silence as one generation quietly surrendered two of its enduring storytellers to memory.
