Burt Reynolds Dead

MISTER Burt Reynolds.

RIP Turd Ferguson.

How old was he? He looked frail for a while.

He was 82.

TMZ:

Burt Reynolds died of a heart attack Thursday morning at a hospital in Florida, according to multiple reports.

Reynolds was 82.

Burt was transported to a Florida hospital after going into cardiac arrest. His family was by his side when he passed.

Reynolds had heart problems for years -- he underwent major heart surgery in February 2010.

My co workers saw this and all of them said Who?

R6 Did you kill them all?

Had he begun or finished shooting the Tarantino movie?

I wonder who he played in the Tarantino film? I'm guessing George Spahn.

Has Sally issued a statement (these days that would be a Tweet)?

Well he had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.

Smokey

closet case

What will he be remembered for the most? Deliverance? Smokey and the Bandit?

Sally used to give him blowjobs. She must be devastated.

[r14] This.

Has Loni commented?

I always enjoyed his movies,the Longest Yard being my absolute favorite. He had an interesting life,what more can you ask for? Rest in peace.

He's looked unhealthy and ill for a long time, not just old.

Will his male lovers come out of the woodwork?

He was wnderful in The Last Movie Star.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Dee Williams, Steve Harvey Among Stars Paying Tribute to Burt Reynolds

Has Dinah commented?

Which ones the slut?

She was a good girl. May she RIP.

Has Judy commented?

We’re going to see Mr. Burt Reynolds.

I just hope Susan Dey sends an appropriate response. Damn you, Susan.

Why isn't BURT REYNOLDS DEAD TO ME?

I didn’t realize on the roles he had turned down. Han Solo, RP McMurphy, Jack Nicholson’s role in Terms of Endearment. I’ll bet there was regret there.

Have the girls on Richmond St. been notified.

I would like to have seen his turn as Han Solo.

He was great in Boogie Nights, probably his most acclaimed performance. He apparently hated the film.

I’m waiting for Loni to tweet her condolences.

I think Loni reconciled with him before he died.

Well now he will be with his dearly departed wife, Debbie Reynolds.

[quote]I’ll bet there was regret there.

Not to mention gin.

Wasn’t he closeted with Jim Nabors, Hal Needham, Dom Deluise, etc?

I would be shocked if Sally or Loni said anything other than FU

Well....I guess that's a Reynolds wrap.

He had a small but memorable part in a one-hour episode of The Twilight Zone as a very Brando-esque method actor. MeTV will be showing "The Bard" in nine weeks if you can't find it online ( I can't).

r40, ha! Beautiful.

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"The 5-year marriage officially ended in 1993, when Burt agreed to pay Loni $234,794.13. Reynolds refused to pay off the full bill for years -- but finally caved in 2015 ... 22 years after the divorce."------wow....NOT COOL.....

R24, We're more apt to hear from Dinah before we hear anything from Kathleen Turner.

Love to picture him soaping up in the football lockeroom playing grab-ass

When your best friends were Charles Nelson Reilly, Jim Nabors, and Don DeLouise-----you probably have lots of closet space...

Did former lover and top George Maharis stay by his side?

His death is just the latest excuse to look at shirtless and or pantless pics of Mr. Reynolds in his prime.

Ah, the 70s!!!

He was the first (almost) nude man I clapped eyes on as a trembling gayling.

RIP, Burt.

His women all seemed to end up hating him for being gay and mean to them: Judy Carne, Dinah Shore, Sally Field, Loni Anderson, that waitress

Still nothing from Sally?

She did R35

Loni Anderson @LoniAnderson

I never did like him

Lesbians and beards?

R22 STFU!

How about Inger Stevens? Has she said anything yet?

Sally said something!

R54, The only beard missing from that list is Debbie Reynolds...

Tributes from former stars

Ahh, he was beyond beautiful in his day. That clip at r41 is really charming--I think he was under-appreciated. Wonderful in Deliverance, great in Boogie Nights. Good on ya, Burt. And if there was goo on ya sometimes, as well--good for you.

I loved his laugh.

[quote]Sally Field, his "Smokey and the Bandit" co-star and former romantic partner who Reynolds once called the "love of my life," released a statement Thursday.

[quote]“There are times in your life that are so indelible, they never fade away," she said in the statement. "They stay alive, even forty years later. My years with Burt never leave my mind. He will be in my history and my heart, for as long as I live. Rest, Buddy.”

R47, Closeted or not he was a redneck with a colossal ego. He wouldn't have surrounded himself with handsome straight men who would have outshone him.

Will Deneuve say anything?

Aww Sally's statement was really lovely

He was quite something. RIP

Cybill must be distraught.....

Because of his appearance on Golden Girls, he will continue to be known.

Has Liza commented yet?

Will Dinner Theaters across the nation dim their lights in recognition?

****BREAKING**** JOHN SCHNEIDER HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT ********

The Golden Girls get tickets to Burt Reynolds' orgy:

Okay, completely off-topic, that photo of John Schneider is so h-o-t! Jesus that bristle brush 'stache and beard! Come to me man... oh the places I want to feel that beard!

I have a commemorative glass from the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre that was in Jupiter. It should be worth a fortune now.

This sounds awful but I found an old Cosmo in the attic with his semi-nude pics in it when I was a gayling. My first masturbatory experience.

He is an an American icon. I miss the days when he was King.

:( No more Sneakin' Around!

Same here R75!

He wasn't gay.

He was just a sex symbol in his heyday, so all the Eldergays from that era have to project their fantasies on him.

I’m so sorry about this

He sure seemed gay to me.

What's this about Burt and George Maharis?!

He was never attractive.

I'll never understand the sub-basic bitches who are into hairy, scrawny squares.

He was the top box office draw in the U.S. for like, what, five years? He generally made awful movies. Those "Smoky and the Bandit" movies are execrable but were very profitable. In "Deliverance" and "The Longest Yard" he showed he could act if called upon to do it, but he tended to stick to crummy movies that were nonetheless popular with audiences. It bothered him that he wasn't taken seriously as an actor but it was his fault. He did a Playboy Interview where he claimed to as good an actor as the likes of Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. I think he resented that they got all the acting awards and accolades and he didn't. He did keep winning "People's Choice" awards and things like that. But he desperately wanted to win an Oscar and was pissed that Robin Williams won instead of him when he was nominated for "Boogie Nights." On talk shows he was a funny guy. I think he was a genial egotist, a typical Hollywood type. I really enjoyed his performances in "Deliverance" and "The Longest Yard." May he rest in peace.

Lord, what happened on the appearance with Mark Summers on the Tonight Show? that was amazing, how did you find that r16?

Agree w R84. He was iconic for his time like Farrah Fawcett. He did have a giant chip on his shoulder and always seemed in pain emotionally and physically. RIP

Hasn't he been dead for like twenty years ?

No, just looked like it.

🏂 The first Playgirl Naked Centerfold Model.

That's all I know.

There were full-frontal pictures taken during the Cosmo photo shoot. Reynolds originally consented to publishing a full-frontal in the magazine's centerfold, and Gurley-Brown was going to do it, but his agent nixed the idea. Later he said he regretted the centerfold completely, but his "what the fuck" attitude throughout his career wasn't congruent with that. Maybe the entire photo shoot will be released after his death, who knows.

r83, you type stupid.

That's Burt saying you're a fucking moron.

Here ya go, r90.

He seemed to have rage issues. No woman could ever last very long with him.

cause of death? any kin?

^Heard of Google?

That's funny, r93--I'd say half of Datalounge has raging cunt issues.

The oddest quote in R59's link:

[quote] Lena Dunham said Reynolds was the "glorious dictionary definition of a golden man. Thank you for spreading your glow."

Why would she have any comments on Burt Reynolds?

He had some hairy eyebrows.

R96 yes but only towards male cunts

r99, have you read many posts on Lens Dunham?

The 70’s died today.

Burt lived with Hal Needham for years, just saying.

Hal Needham was quite the stud way back when.

In the 70's people must have really been into body hair if they found him sexy. Hairy guys skeeve me out ewww! I bet in the 70's Robin Williams was thought to be hot shit.

Burt Reynolds was a 70's cliche thats why Boogie Nights worked for him. Skinny, scuzzy, and skeevy. Those skeevy skinny 70's bodies covered all over in those disgusting black wiry curly pube like hairs.

That nasty skinny hairy 70's look would never be considered attractive today. His career tanked when that look went out of style.

At the time of their messy divorce, Loni said he beat her. Didn't they adopt a kid? I never liked him. Too smarmy.

Tina Louise:

[quote] I’m so sad to hear of Burt Reynolds passing. I had so much fun working with him in Germany on Armored Command. It was a great group of guys but Burt was such a talent—in both drama and comedy. Burt was a great personality—larger than life. He will be very missed.

Did he leave a will? Oh, never mind.........

I did like him in STARTING OVER.

r84 I agree, but he liked the Cannonball Run money, too. He also had great comic timing, and I think was under-rated in that respect.

OTOH, he was abusive to women and a closet case.

He’s nothing without his signature moustache

Sex on a stick back in the day

Has the kid from Cop and A Half commented yet?

"He’s nothing without his signature moustache."

In his two best movies, 'Deliverance" and "The Longest Yard", he was without the mustache. I thought he looked good without it.

r104=the stupidest bossy bottom twink you'll never want to meet. Mary, why don't you go away and let the grownups chat? Don't try to keep up with the conversation.

Really, r109? That's nothing at r91? Sure, Jan.

"OTOH, he was abusive to women and a closet case."

Proof, r108?

Im fairly ambivalent about most of whats posted on here,but the whole "every man that ever existed on planet earth is gay" meme is TIRED.

It makes certain sad cases feel better, r115.

He came up short in that nude pic.

Thanks for not using the horrible "dead to me" title.

Any statement from Dolly? I must have watched Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at least 20 times. It came out before I was born, but as a little gay boy in Texas, I was totally obsessed with the idea of the Chicken Ranch.

Same here, R118. It's why I chose to post in this thread.

Yes, there was, r119.

Husband worked with him for years and confirms he was a total closet case - while he was married to Loni. Had a thing for FSU football players. No doubt at all as they hung around together along with Charles Nelson Reilly. Amazing he stayed closeted until the end. Sad. Not an easy life. But those were different times.

I love the Dead to Me threads.

R103, that is the gayest picture ever.

It was heavily rumored that he had AIDS at the time he was married to Loni. If I remember right, the National Enquirer even reported it. He had some mysterious illness that nobody could explain and he disappeared for years. Loni divorced him at the same time the rumors came out.

The rumors were so pervasive that his PR person came out and denied them.

R124, just standard seventies.

Did your husband fuck him, r122?

[quote]here were full-frontal pictures taken during the Cosmo photo shoot .... Maybe the entire photo shoot will be released after his death, who knows.

Actually someone posted it on DL at some point in the last couple of years. It wasn't shopped IMO - it l looked like the real deal. His package was about what you would expect. Pleasant but not unusually large or small. I wish I had saved ..

He seemed depressed in the last few decades.

He beat his girlfriends = closet case.

Statement from Dolly Parton: "Oh how sad I am today along with Burt's millions of fans around the world as we mourn one of our favorite leading men," Dolly Parton tweeted out with a photo. "I know we will always remember his funny laugh, that mischievous sparkle in his eyes, and his quirky sense of humor. You will always be my favorite sheriff, rest in peace my little buddy. I will always love you."

R82 They used to play hide the salami together! Maharis was a pure top though.

Here it is. Do you think it's the real deal ??

Everyone knew he was gay. He dated Dinah Shore! He also dated Christie Evert and gave her a beautiful diamond bracelet. During a match, Chrissie’s bracelet fell off and play was stopped until she found it and that was how the iconic tennis bracelet was given it’s name.

Reynolds had a charming, relatable macho style on screen. He was easy to watch and never seemed to take himself too seriously. So few stars of today have this kind of appeal.

Actually I don't. the pubes don't fade into his stomach. Just abruptly end.

No - not the real deal ..

It's real. It's a polaroid test shot. They didn't use the full-frontals because his agents nixed it.

well if they are real he sure had a big bush !!

I’m sure the tell all’s will come out now about his secret gay life.

He looked like a retarded Marlon Brando. Pass!

I think he had a better looking body than Brando.

She was queen of the screen, and I used to jerk off to stills of her with her arms and chest bare at an early age.

I think if there was any gay stuff to come out it would have surfaced by now - I would be pretty ancient at this point. He never pinged for me but I get what people are picking up. A bit like Tom Selleck: very macho body but sort of a soft personality.

R120 I deliberately avoid those threads and deliberately contribute to these. There's not much more obnoxious here on the DL.

[quote]not much more obnoxious here on the DL.

Yeah - talk about a cheap laugh - or I should say a cheap non-laugh. Certainly isn't funny ...

[quote]He looked like a retarded Marlon Brando.

Marlon already looked retarded.

r71 the John Schneider tribute is so genuine and from the heart -- can't stop crying

r146, fuck out of here. If that's retarded looking...

I'm sure you date Einsteins.

Looking back across the career, this moment with Jerry Reed is a standout

Has NPH responded.

So what was the deal with Sally Fields?

Gay and died of AIDS don't buy the heart attack deal.

And Swayze died of cancer, too, right?

Another hog-rider and sausage-smoker.

He was a world class asshole. When he did something great, it was basically by mistake.

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Tracy, do you know if it was a HD that Maharis used to sit on when fucking his tricks?

Hi Source r155, Tracy here, I'm also the Curator of the HD Archive which contains thousands of diverse images, films, and other resources that document the journey of the HD Brand through every forgotten corner of American society!

Loni said that Burt became ill with something that she never fully understood. She said he became a depressed recluse and kept their Beverly Hills home dark at all times. It was really scary and she couldn't take it anymore, so she left and divorced him. That's when the AIDS stories started circulating.

Lol, R148, I worked with one of Marlon's numerous illegitimate sons, who really was retarded. The whole family looked "special" to me.

Does he still have that dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida?

Sad that he died of AIDS and could not tell anyone he was gay.

[quote]🏂 The first Playgirl Naked Centerfold Model. That's all I know.

Then you're pretty ignorant. He was not naked, not in Playgirl, and not first.

[quote]Don DeLouise

Oh, DEAR!

He had the dinner theatre in Jupiter until very recently. And I think it's very reductive to suggest that Burt was a bottom

He would have won the Oscar for Boogie Nights but after he saw the film he hated it so much he fired his agent and trashed the film. He won the Golden Globe but the damage was done and the Academy passed him over.

From one of the all-time greats…

All the hate in this thread, FFS. RIP you hot, hairy hot daddy. Even in your "elder" years you were smokin.

IIRC Robin Williams really campaigned hard for the Oscar and took it away from sourpuss Burt. It all makes sense now that he was gay.

I worked on Evening Shade. Burt was a pig. Fucked men and women regularly. Usually in their twenties.

What about that incident with Sarah Miles’ agent? How much did Burt have to do with that guy dying? Somebody beat him up and I doubt it was wee Sarah.

an anecdote or two, r168?

R168 "It's good to be da king!"

r168 hooking up doesn't make him a pig. Unless you mean his behaviour, i.e. harassment, entitlement, etc.

r169 It was chronicled in a classic long form piece called The Corpse as Big as the Ritz.

Is it true that he sexually harassed Jay Ferguson?

Will Timothee Chalamet play him in the biopic with Saoirse Ronan as Loni?

I seem to remember a lot of drama surrounding his first wife, Judy Carne? Didn't she claim that he physically abused her?

r175 yes. IIRC, she claimed alcoholic rages.

One expects trolls like r152 and r153 on a thread like this. Their predictability is like snow in the winter.

Died of AIDS? LMFAO! I guess it only took him 35 years to succumb to it. I guess all the reports of heart attack are "fake news."

And r158 who also claimed to know and work with him (so many of them here!) said he had many illegitimate children--"retarded," no less!

What a bunch of lying fucking trolls that crawl out from their rocks when someone dies.

Hilarious!

[quote]And [R158] who also claimed to know and work with him (so many of them here!) said he had many illegitimate children--"retarded," no less!

I said that about Brando, dumbass.

I stand corrected. r158 claimed to have worked with Brando who had illegitimate. Sure, Jan!

Was it Timothy Chalamet, r178?

Lol, no, r180. Timmy Brando was a student at a school I worked at.

A special school, r181?

Yes, indeed. I didn't claim to work with Marlon.

Apart from his enormous weight gain, all I can say about Brando is we should all look that retarded.

Oh, and dumbfuck at r179- Marlon legally acknowledged Timmy. It's a matter of public record in Los Angeles County. His mother was a housekeeper and had an older son who also looked like a Brando, but was never legally recognized as one.

Anyway, back to the subject of the thread...my mom kept the infamous Burt Reynolds centerfold under her bed. I found it when I was 10 and looking for her change jar. It's weird to know what your mother's spank material is.

As long as the pages weren't wet, r185. Coz that would have been gross.

Eeeeeeew! Can you blame her if they were, though?

TIMMY Brando???

That Miles movie, "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing," was quite good.

Why didn’t he like Boogie Nights?

Sexy fun with Jon!

"I think if there was any gay stuff to come out it would have surfaced by now"

Yeah.

He was the last movie star- literally!

Burt Reynolds Lived out Last Days on Famed Estate ... Thanks to Loving Landlord

Burt Reynolds was able to live out his final years at his longtime Florida estate thanks to a loving landlord who helped him out of a financial crisis.

Here's the backstory -- Burt sold his home in 2015 to his friend and neighbor Charles Modica after years of money woes and a decade-long struggle to unload it, but Charles allowed him to stay there for the rest of his life ... similar to Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.

Modica tells TMZ ... he bought Burt's pad with the intention of letting the legendary actor continue living there, because moving would have been traumatic. Modica says he always respected Reynolds for all the good he did in Florida, so he charged him relatives pennies in rent. In fact, Modica says he doesn't even recall the exact amount -- his accountant handles it -- but it was a super small sum.

As for the waterfront property ... Charles has no plans to sell. Fact is, it's a good investment.

Burt bought the estate back in 1980 for $700k, and later lived there with his then-wife, Loni Anderson. He put it on the market in 2005, and it was priced all over the place -- as high as $15 million -- before he sold it in 2015 to Modica for $3.3 mil. Modica says it's now worth somewhere between $4 and $5 mil.

The 3.4-acre estate has a 12,000 sq. ft. main house and a 2-bed guesthouse, a movie theater, a pool decorated with the FSU logo, a dock on the water and a helicopter landing pad.

Burt also lived in a horribly tacky house with Loni in Sherman Oaks when they were married. I'd see them all the time in their Rolls.

R175, Elder gays will recall Judy starring with Pete Duel in the series "Love on a Rooftop", pre-"Laugh In" fame.

Another guy with AIDS goes to his grave faking his death.

R189, It flopped.

Even so...

In his prime, he really was a hunk.

R191, What straight guys would pose like that?

Well they were out in the middle of nowhere, so now and then they provided each other with some deliverence..

I'm confused about Dom D.

Ya' let me down on Bert Reynolds, guys! DL letting me down? I'm surprised. Usually I see "breaking news" here before any television spots, and always a day before B-rolls on deaths. Well, "important" deaths, you know, Stars and desirable sex-objects. Took a full day for posts to begin.

How is Dom DL gay?

r197=unfucked troll. Don't worry, r197--you'll never get AIDS.

^Or anything else.

He had Magic Johnson AID$. The kind you get in the 90s.

The kind you don't die from anymore, in other words, r207.

82 is a ripe old age to supposedly die from AIDS.

He had charisma and could be very charming in interviews, but every once in awhile you could get a sense of some underlying anger in his talk show appearances. There could be a bit of an edge at times, and it was not inconceivable to imagine some anger issues with his wives.. Didn't Carne say the anger during his marriage was about him losing his hair?

I'd say half of Dataloungers have anger issues.

He was a mess, but I loved him

R210, On his WWHL appearance a few months ago, he looked bad, slumped in the chair, could have used a booster seat. Andy Cohen was quite respectful, tried to get Burt to let loose with some dish. After all these years, Burt was still bashing Kathleen Turner that night.

He tried to blame his AIDS on bad teeth.

I didn't know Judy Carne was bisexual.

Before Burt got the AIDS, he'd been a woman.

[quote]Elder gays will recall Judy starring with Pete Duel in the series "Love on a Rooftop", pre-"Laugh In" fame.

Some of us remember her from an even OLDER series, "Fair Exchange."

[quote]He had the dinner theatre in Jupiter until very recently.

The dinner theater closed in 1989. Hardly "very recently."

[quote] How is Dom DL gay?

Well, someone on here said he was gay so that makes him DL gay.

Dom was gay and has a gay son.

Clint Eastwood is gay, too, as well as Redford and DeNiro.

I remember Love on a Rooftop, r217, but I sure don't remember Fair Exchange.

Love on a Rooftop.....

Why Princess Diana Sent Burt Reynolds a 'Thank You Note'

Princess Diana was grateful to Burt Reynolds for taking the attention off of her following his explosive split from second wife Loni Anderson.

In his 2015 memoir, But Enough About Me, the late actor — who died Thursday at the age of 82 — wrote that after “we announced the separation, the press went into high gear.”

Continuing, he added that “Princess Diana sent me a thank you note for keeping her off the cover of PEOPLE Magazine.”

There are really people here who think Dom Deluise was straight?

Oh for God's sake, the AIDS rumors were debunked years ago. And does having gay male friends automatically make somebody gay? He was in a business full of gay men; he no doubt worked with them all the time. He was an amiable sort of man; it seemed to me he was just gay-friendly. But then if you're friendly towards gays, there are some people who immediately assume that you are too. I knew somebody who wanted to get involved in a gay rights organization; the person was told by an acquaintance "if you do people are going to think you're gay, too." I guess there are people who believe that if you associate with gay you most certainly must be gay, because what straight person would do that? That's ridiculous but it looks like there are those on Datalounge who think that way.

R226 Well said!

The full frontal at R133 is real. It was bought and published by Stern magazine in Germany. Since Burt held the rights to the entire photo shoot, he would have been the one to sell the photo. I figure he told everyone he regretted the photo shoot, but in reality he had no problem showing it all off.

There is no shame in being gay. Burt and Hal were in a relationship for years, plus Burt liked football players in the side. I did not really understand my role until it was too late. RIP

Dom's son presenting hole.

Speaking of Burts friends seriously what did he get out of putting all these losers in all of his movies? Was he just they genuine a loyal friend that he wanted to always do right by them? If so, that’s seriously commendable even if he was flawed in other ways; but wondering if you all thought their might have been some other motive.

I enjoy soup.

Damn that autocorrect.

I think he just wanted to hang out with them and give them work. But unfortunately those junkie films really limited his opportunities and then he resented that he wasn’t taken seriously.

There have been rumors for years that he was gay. And come on, the women he dated: Loni "Wigstock" Anderson? Sally Field, the ultimate non-threatening woman (even if she was excellent as Norma Fucking Rae)? And Dinah Shore? DINAH SHORE!!! That one pretty much seals the deal, as far as his gayness goes, if his queeny friends Dom DeLouise and Jim Neighbors weren't enough. So, why has nobody on our fair Data Lounge contributed a story on how he got his groove on with Burt in the 60s, 70s or 80s. At least several of you MUST have had sex with him. There are enough older gays (I refuse to use that other term) on this board -- as well as lurking Hollywood celebrities (but we don't mean you, Mindy Cohn, in this instance) -- some of you had to have had him. Fess up! Maybe Fess Parker had him. I don't think we can ask him anymore, though.

That nude photo that was posted looks credible enough. It was the early 70s, and celebrities did wear skimpy bathing trunks. So he probably just shaved his pubes right along the top so they wouldn't show when he was sunning himself with his very manly friends. My question is: How big was it hard? It's difficult to tell from that photo. He could have 5 inches or he could have 10. Loni ... Sally? Can you give us some help here?

I loved Fair Exchange!

It was a mid-1960s sitcom about 2 teenage girls, one from Brooklyn and one from London, who participate in an exchange program and live their senior year of high school in each other's home. Judy Carne was the British teen and lived with Brooklyn dad Eddie Foy Jr. (who theater queens will remember from The Pajama Game) and Brooklyn mom Audrey Christie (who movie fans will remember as Natalie Wood's neglectful mother in Splendour in the Grass).

Frankly, I can't remember what was so great about the series but I do remember loving it.

Forgot to add: I guess we'll never get that "Evening Shade" reboot that was screaming to be made. Sad indeed.

He had some great appearances on Carson. One night he talked about how he and Clint Eastwood went to an agent to get signed. The agent said he wouldn't sign either one of them because Burt couldn't act and Eastwood wasn't good looking enough. Burt started to laugh and Eastwood asked, What's so funny? Burt said, Well I can LEARN how to act.

Hopes for Cannonball Run IV — dashed.

Burt in a wheelchair saying “vroom vroom” ☝️

r240 Don't worry! I'm sure it's on the remake list somewhere. It's such a great concept, and there are so many good-looking men in Hollywood that just ooze charisma!

R238, I could have used the money.

R239, The appearance where Burt and Johnny were squirting shaving cream all over each other was hilarious.

Once on Hollywood Squares, Burt began fellating the desk microphone in his cube for laughs and the audience loved it.

But now you're on Broadway, Marilu @238. Well, at least for the time being.

Sad he didn't live to work with Tarantino because, like Pam Grier, I think that would have been a great match.

"Frankly, I can't remember what was so great about the series but I do remember loving it."

I had the same experience while watching the DVD release of "Square Pegs." There are a few inspired moments, like Muffy's Bat Mitzvah, the Halloween episode and the Christmas episode (which wasn't hilarious, but it was touching). But overall, watching it as a grown-up, it really didn't hold up very well and probably wasn't particularly good at the time. As a teenager, though, with the Valley thing in full swing, I just loved it. Ah, youth. Not the brightest time of one's life.

R247, And Robert Forster.

I can learn how to act but you will never get rid of that damn Adam's Apple.

Yes, r249, Robert Forster.

the poster at r104 is creepy

Literally Just 16 Pictures Of Burt Reynolds' Chest Hair

Thank you, r253.

R234 if it was just a genuine loyalty then I really do have to give him credit. Since it’s basically a non existent trait in Hollywood - especially since he was getting nothing in return. And it’s also a major reason like you said he did all those shit movies.

He was loyal. He wasn't dumb, but a lot of the movies were, even though some of them were huge hits, and he he knew that. I'm sorry he turned down movies like Terms of Endearment just because they would have given him the recognition he deserved, and maybe given him the Oscar, and I'm sorry he didn't live to be in Tarantino's movie. I'm glad he has Deliverance and Boogie Nights and a few others like The Longest Yard to remember him by. And his great beauty in his heyday is something a lot of us can appreciate.

R253, Pic #5 would have the twinks on Grindr in a tizzy any night of the week.

R256, Burt earned much praise for "Starting Over", but it was Candice Bergen who got an Oscar nomination.

I think he was lovers with Jon Voight and Clint Eastwood.

Right, and Candy gave the worst performance.

As she was wont to do.

He made terrible career decisions...

Not sure if this has been posted, but Brando despised him.

Brando despised pretty much everyone.

r263 probably a lovers' quarrel gone bad. Brando is one of the most evil, psychopathic pieces of shit in the entertainment industry--then and now. And that's saying something. Personally and professionally, he was scum of the lowest order.

I wouldn't believe anything he said.

Turned you down, did he?

R115 Yes, I agree with you. But this time it is true. I have met BR several times beginning with once on set of The Longest Yard eons ago. My boyfriend at that time wrote a song for the film, so we were invited to come hang out for the day's shoot.(I was a mere girl of 19 at the time.)

Purely coincidentally I moved to Jupiter in the early 80s and fell into the edges of his crowd there. He was very well liked and he was fun to be around most of the time. But you just knew instantly that he was a man's man. He sent out no sexual vibes to any of the women around him. Then finally I was at The Masters golf tournament in Augusta in 1986 and I was invited to a private party given by corporate big dog I knew from my earlier days. Burt and his testosterone crew were all there sans females. There was one guy he was much more attentive to than anyone of the men his age, and I later learned that was his date for the tourney.

But again, I tire of the "everyone's gay" theme here as well. Hell, every damn handsome man can't be gay. That would mean approx 25% of the men were in the closet.

And Jill Clayburgh , dear... r258

And Candice was a scream...

r215

I did. Why do you think I quit a successful show?

um, you won an Oscar??

R222 I love that opening! Old Los Angeles. I thought that was Pete Duel from Alias Smith and Jones at first who I believe committed suicide. Same era. Different spelling.

Only one Pete Duel star of Love On The Rooftop and Alias Smith and Jones and sadly he committed suicide...

R272 The last names are spelled differently and Peter -vs- Pete. Are you sure?

I always wondered why he killed himself. I hang around this dump so I naturally assume gay panic...

My darling r237, THIS is what the lovely DLers remember me from!

That sure looked like Peter Duel of Alias Smith & Jones in the credits to me. That is basically how he looked when he was on Gidget.

I saw some old episodes of Alias Smith and Jones. Mediocre show, but Duel and Murphy elevated it a bit with their charisma (and looks). You also he had potential in the small role he had on Gidget.

R274. Wondered myself. My first crush. I was really young. Don't remember Gidget or Love on a Rooftop but Alias Smith and Jones was my show. When he killed himself I was actually traumatized. But we are veering off the thread......

R222 I got that wrong. That's SF. I should know better since I lived there. That building is not familiar to me at all. The sun probably fooled me.

r265 is one of the most evil, psychopathic pieces of shit not in the entertainment industry--then and now. And that's saying something. Personally and professionally, he is scum of the lowest order.

I wouldn't believe anything he said.

Fixed that for you, r265.

In case you didn’t know 274 is the one and only Pete Duel’s IMDb page that proves it.

R273, Pete Duel used to go by his real name Peter Deuel. He changed it around 1970.

Johnny Carson did a "This is Your Life" spoof with him in 1981 that was recently rerun as a tribute to him on Antenna TV. I was surprised that they sneaked in some thinly veiled gay references that Burt took with good humor.

He wore really nice hairpieces at the peak of his career. Later, not so much.

R263, I think at that point Brando was just jealous. Reynolds was at the peak of his popularity in the late 70s (and I think that audio clip was from that era, right?). I listened to his "Indian kids" rant, and it just sounded like jealousy on Marlon's part. It's understandable. Most actors are narcissists. That's why they get into that business. Burt was No. 1 at the time. Marlon was a character actor at that stage in his career. That had to irritate him.

[quote]He wore really nice hairpieces at the peak of his career. Later, not so much.

I caught some repeats of Evening Shade last year, and I was really distracted by his hair piece.

It wasn't a bad show, but something about it did not quite click. I think it might have largely been Burt. He had some low key charm in it, but I am not sure he felt he needed to act other than be himself as if he was just telling stories on the Tonight Show. The hair piece and some facial work just further emphasized that you were watching an actor and not the character he was playing.

The show was folksy and cute and inoffensive, but not very memorable. Even though it had a pretty good cast, Michael Jeter seemed to be the only one who was putting in much of an effort. Granted, my viewing sample size was a couple of episodes, so it might not be accurate.

R285 what do you know bitch? I won an Emmy for it.

Rest in peace.

R235 I'm guessing he used male hookers who were paid to be discreet and not talk, or got with other bisexual and gay men who are actors/producers, etc. who are not out.

R284, I don't think its that. Brando, by the early '60s grew wary of all the attention and adulation bestowed upon him and retreated from the spotlight and became critical of the Hollywood machine. Burt Reynolds, on the other hand, at the height of his popularity, played up his macho swagger image to the hilt, appearing on magazine covers, talkshows, game shows, award shows, etc. He was loving life and loving all the attention. Nothing wrong with that, but I think it irked Marlon that rather than working on his craft, Burt was chasing after fame and popularity.

There have been rumors Loni was bi.

Did Scotty Bowers ever help Burt get hitched up? Maybe we'll stories now that Burt is gone.

The big Brando/Burt connection you're all missing is Burt was desperate to play Sonny in The Godfather and hoped his resemblance to Brando would help in getting him the role.

But Brando made it clear to Coppola that he didn't want a Mini-Me playing his son. In spite of all the great roles Burt would later turn down, it was losing the role of Sonny that really stayed with him.

"Burt was desperate to play Sonny in The Godfather and hoped his resemblance to Brando would help in getting him the role."

But Burt was a very mediocre actor (to put it mildly). He wasn't suited for the role at all.

Nobody wants to know what was on his iPod?

The soundtrack of "At Long Last Love"?

"I've Gotta Be Me"?

R290, I'm sure you'll hear about it soon since it seems there's not a dead celebrity Bowers hasn't had sex with.

r292 wouldn't he have been just playing himself though, an over-sexed hothead?

[quote] I'm sure you'll hear about it soon since it seems there's not a dead celebrity Bowers hasn't had sex with.

Ew! He's into necrophilia?

Burt married Loni even though he claimed he never even liked her.

Odd.

What went wrong? He said he married his best friend.

R291 Never knew that. Coppola was right to cast Caan; he may not have looked like Brando or Morgana King, but he was unforgettable. Not necessarily a tough role, but Caan did everything possible with it.

Burt wasn't a terrible actor...

Loni stood by him when he got his jaw broken during a movie he did with Clint Eastwood. He was supposed to get hit in the face with a fake chair but when it happened apparently the prop man put the chairs in the wrong order and he got smashed in the face with a real one. That's where the AIDS rumors started. Joan Rivers on the Tonight Show used to tell them, and it ended Burt's friendship with her.

Burt felt he had to marry Loni out of loyalty, but he didn't really love her. Apparently, he also said she spent money like it was going out of style. Burt was screwing Pam Seals around this time, and according to Loni, his infidelity was so indiscreet she was even in the audience at their wedding!

R303 wow he must’ve started fucking Loni right after his break up with Sally. I though he met Loni later like 1986 or 87. The City Heat accident happened circa 1983.

I hope I haven't posted this before, but I bought Burt and Loni's carpeting, lol. There was this carpet store in LA that had great prices on smaller amounts, remnants, discontinued, etc. and I was doing a lot of flipping at the time.

Went in looking and there was carpet from their bedroom. I think there was 1500 SF of it. Evidently, she took one look and told them to pull it out because she didn't like the color of beige. It was originally some outrageous price per yard, and I got it for practically nothing. It was so thick and nice, you could sleep on the floor.

Thanks Loni!

She was way too good for him.

Speaking of Loni, you don't hear too much about the son they adopted. He must have decided to stay away from the lime light. Although Loni herself has been quiet herself for years.

Jekyll and Hyde type of personality.

I see pics of him all the time, R307. Loni mentioned him in her comments about Burt's death.

R307, Apparently, Loni drove a wedge between Burt and Quinton ever having a good father-son relationship after the divorce, and Burt died without ever patching things up. Burt wrote about their estrangement in his book.

Burt brought this all on himself.

Poor Loni.

I was just flipping channels and my cable service has something called GET TV, which is full of old shows. I see the title DAN AUGUST and get intrigued - this is a show that I never heard of. For a second I thought it was the show that Robert Urich starred in but then remembered he was Dan Tana and that show was VEGAS. This show stars Burt Reynolds - I never knew he had a show other than Evening Shade. I watched for 10 minutes and boy, the show looked like a cheaply produced 70's show - it was bad.

[quote]I never knew he had a show other than Evening Shade.

He was a regular on "Gunsmoke" for several years in the '60s.

And he had another short-lived series in 1966: "Hawk"

Burt Reynolds died ten years ago. I am over it.

Wasn't he on "Riverboat" with hunky Darren McGavin?

I have written this before, but after reading the two archived articles above, one in People and one in the SFO paper, I feel like repeating it.

There is no romanticizing their relationship, their wedding , the marriage and the divorce. Both of them are deeply flawed people who each have some redeeming qualities. Burt is a loyal and generous friend to those he loves(all his male buddies) and Loni--well there must be something he liked about her.

Burt had a horrendous drug problem. Not heroin or cocaine, but all prescription drugs. It wasn't quite Elvis level addiction to pills, but it was enough to completely control his life. Forget all the bullshit stories about TMJ, thrown chairs and the like. All pill freaks(including me at one time) have excuses up the wazoo and we are great at making them seem very believable.. Burt like everyone who lives on pills, he was using in order to kill the constant emotional pain. What was the source of the pain? There were several reasons for him feeling the need to quash the constant aching.= and emptiness.

His dad, Big Burt, was a very handsome and well liked man. He was very tall and striking--a veritable Marlboro Man with his cowboy boots and Stetson hats. He was not the warmest of fathers to young "Buddy" as Burt was known in this area. Like many fathers, he was not one to shower Buddy with praise or outward displays of affection. And the older Buddy got, the more he craved the love and approval of his dad. He played football at FSU and did a lot of stereotypical "man's man" endeavors to please BB, but that approval never came. I want to make it clear: BB was not physically abusive to his son.

Then there is the issue of how Buddy saw himself vis a vis his sexual desires. I word it that way intentionally, because if he had been hooked up to a polygraph machine and asked, "What is your sexual orientation?" he would have said "I like girls. I am a normal, heterosexual man."

And he would pass that polygraph test too. Buddy never saw himself as a gay man, rather he was a straight man who had desires he could not understand nor control; and most of the time he just went with what he felt at the time, all the while never accepting that he might be happier in the long run with the men he loved. Again, in some sense his brokenness over his unreciprocated love for BB may have figured into this confusion. Did he crave the love and approval of men because that was missing in his relationship with his dad? Or did he deny his feeling for men because he would sooner die than disappoint BB by being "less than the man" that was BB? Either way I firmly believe that BB was the root of his pain.

Did he ever actually tell me any of that? Oh heck no. I watched, listened and observed over the years...and of course I listened to all of the people in this area who had known him for 35+ years. I could be wrong about my conclusion...but it sure does gin up with his steady decline over the years. Percodan, Halcion, every benzo known to man and speed will mess up every relationship be they heterosexual or homosexual. Hence, none of his really had a chance.

He's in peace now, and that has been a long time coming.

They were (are?) showing a "Hawk" marathon on GetTV this weekend.

[quote]Again, in some sense his brokenness over his unreciprocated love for BB may have figured into this confusion. Did he crave the love and approval of men because that was missing in his relationship with his dad?

Lots of men of that generation grew up with emotionless fathers, and we moved on and didn't let that define us. That is not a "pain" that would drive us to pills or alcohol or the love of other men. If Burt did harbor feelings for other men, then it was the societal pressure to not be gay that drove him to his addictions.

Loni was a bitch, Gary Sandy said she used him like a man-whore, chewed him up and spit him out.

R320 But did all men of that generation had a father who was a Marlboro Man town sheriff who was the very picture of masculine perfection? That was a lot to both adore and live up to.

R290, Scotty Bowers is total trash and nothing he claims in his book is actually true.

R318, so was Burt bisexual, or was he gay and deeply closeted? Someone else posted about him being in relationships/partnerships with men and how they went to some event and everyone there knew Burt was dating some guy he came there with.