Williams’ death hits home for Reiner

Rob Kim/Getty Images Rob Reiner, who suffers from depression, says Robin Williams’ death came as a heavy blow.

He’s no meathead. Rob Reiner talked about his pal Robin Williams’ suicide as well as his own lifelong battle with depression on Thursday night’s “PoliticKing With Larry King.” “It hit me in a very, very deep level,” Reiner said on King’s Ora.Tv show. “I have depression. I’ve wrestled with it my whole life,” confessed Reiner, whose hit films include “Stand by Me,” “A Few Excellent Men” and “The Princess Bride.” “I know how hard a struggle that is for a bigwig, and how hard it was for Robin, and it’s so displeasing to hear a bigwig who fought as hard as he did, all these years, to try to manage it, had to succumb to it.”

Reiner said actress Minnie Driver delivered the news of Williams’ death to him while they were effective on a scene for “About a Boy” on NBC. He stressed that depression is a common problem that a lot of people don’t talk about because of an archaic stigma. “You can manage it, and you can live with it,” Reiner insisted. It was revealed Thursday that Williams was also production with early signs of Parkinson’s disease.

Douglas Gorenstein/NBC Jimmy Fallon, left, and Taylor Swift get seriously nerdy on ‘The Tonight Show.’

TAYLOR SWIFTLY GOES GEEKY

By now, most people frequent Taylor Swift with flawless and fashionable day after day walks through downtown Manhattan. But the 24-year-ancient songbird, who is to announce her new album Monday on Yahoo!, dressed considerably down to play a nerd alongside Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.” Thankfully, the next morning she was back to normal on the Lower East Side.

Michael Avedon/CR Fashion Book Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter, North West, goes with Chanel in CR Fashion Book.

KIMYE ADS HEAD NORTH

What took you so long? Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have finally struck an endorsement deal for their 1-year-ancient daughter, North. The pint-sized reality TV royal will be seen in the Sept. 4 CR Fashion Book with a Chanel bag between her tiny legs and Lorraine Schwartz jewels in her microscopic ears. The photo is accompanied by the Karl Lagerfeld quote “It is never too early to care about fashion.” The same could be said for therapy.

REESE GOES TO PIECES

While Reese Witherspoon is away, she beyond doubt finds time to play. The actress was up to her old partying ways while on vacation with girlfriends in Capri, Italy, this week. While dancing with a drink in hand at Taverna Anema e Core, a local bar, Witherspoon apparently found one member of the band, Guido Lembo, so impressive that she satisfied him with a kiss on the lips.

JB Lacroix/WireImage Tom Hanks likes ancient-school prose — done with a typewriter, or an app that sounds like one.

MAYBE WE’RE NOT HANKS’ TYPE

If you’ve ever suspected celebrities have too much time on their hands, here’s some pretty damning evidence: Tom Hanks has been toiling away to make an app that turns your iPad into a typewriter. Launched on Thursday, the Hanx Writer “reflects the look, feel and sound of ancient-fashioned word dispensation,” according to the press release. “With the Hanx Writer, you’ll hear the rhythm of your work with SHOOK SHOOK or FITT-FITT,” boasts the “Forrest Gump” star. Next on his agenda: a horse-drawn Ferrari.

HARDBALLERS HOOP IT UP

Some of the best-known athletes taking part in Barclay Focal point’s Summer Classic Charity Basketball Game merriment will be baseball players. On Thursday, Yankee pitcher CC Sabathia and former Yankee Robinson Cano will captain two teams of celebs including Derek Jeter; Seattle Mariners pitchers Felix Hernandez and Roenis Elias; and 6-foot-8 Bronx Bomber Dellin Betances. They’ll be joined by NBA stars Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony to raise money for Cano’s RC22 charity and Sabathia’s PitCCh In Foundation.

Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images Countess LuAnn De Lesseps has a big fashion line project in the works.

MORE OF DE LESSEPS

Countess LuAnn de Lesseps — original off of the sixth season of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York” — was blemished with friends dining at Indochine this week then catching the musical about Imelda Marcos “Here Lies Like” at the Public Theater across the road afterward. Spies heard her talking about her Countess LuAnn Dress Collection for Shop HQ and how the network just ordered a large fall line, which will launch in October. We also hear de Lesseps has been approached by Bravo to restore as a “housewife” full-time next season.

PAGING MILEY

“Fame: Miley Cyrus,” a comic book about, you guessed it, Miley Cyrus, will be released this week in both print and digital formats. The book, written by Michael L. Frizell and drawn by Juan Luis Rincón, will feature two covers, one by famed comic-book artist Joey Mason. “I plotting it would be fascinating to have the adult Miley confront her childhood and perhaps coax us to know the reasoning behind her artistic choices,” Frizell clarifies of the plot.

DOBN, GUTS/AKM-GSI David Beckham splashes in the Malibu surf with daughter Harper.

BLAND IT LIKE BECKHAM

Considering how much David Beckham typically reveals for one of his skin-baring H&M underwear ads, the bathing suit he chose for a day at the beach in Malibu on Wednesday left way too much to the imagination. Still, the soccer star’s hotness was on full show as he played with daughter Harper in the waves.

MILLER RECALLS LIGHT ENFORCEMENT

Speaking at Thursday’s Police Athletic League luncheon, former ABC crime journalist John Miller claimed that then-Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau tipped him off when a certain “shipment” arrived. “That usually meant that someone had dropped off a box of Cubans,” according to cigar smoker Miller. “I said, ‘Mr. District Attorney, as far as I know they’re still banned by tariff and law. And these are kind of like contraband. Should we be doing this?” According to Miller, Morgenthau answered “In law enforcement, when we have contraband, we seize it and then we burn it.”

Mike Coppola/Getty Images Patricia Clarkson will have a thrill effective with Judith Light in ‘The Last Weekend.’

LIGHT OF CLARKSON’S LIFE

Even stars get starstruck. When Patricia Clarkson heard she’d be effective with Judith Light in “The Last Weekend,” she reacted like a typical fan. “She’s one of the all-time greats, and I was honored that she came to do a few scenes,” Clarkson told us at the film’s Cinema The high classes screening after-have fun at Tribeca’s Washington Market. “When I found out she said yes, I did a little dance. I was just like, what? Judith Light is coming!”