Posted on 11/18/2015 11:07:47 AM PST by EveningStar
Cutting an increasingly frail figure, Burt Reynold arrived in New York yesterday for an interview on Stephen Colbert's 'The Late Show'.
Still using a cane to walk, the 79-year-old star hit the studio as part of his press rounds for new memoir 'But Enough About Me'.
Former Hollywood macho man Reynolds has been suffering ill health for many years now, with back surgery in 2009 leaving him addicted to pain killers.
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Its not hard to understand, simple economic theory explains it.
Hot Chicks have men dote on them, they have a perceived value... so they learn they can pretty much do a lot of things and guys put up with it, because both they and their guy know they can find someone else who will put up with it this guy won’t.
OBiously not ALL hot women are like this, but it is a generally true. A gal who isn’t that hot, tries to play those games and winds up at the curb so she learns not to behave that way.
He turned down Greta Garbo too. According to his book.
I said years ago it looks like he has AIDS.
Was Warren Beatty on that list, too?
I always liked the guy. I just saw this short clip this morning. Language.
Marlon Brando gives Francis Ford Coppola his take on Burt Reynolds in between takes on ‘Apocalypse Now’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ubnNoOwdY
Donald Trump doesn’t have Burt Reynolds’ vote.
In his memoir, Reynolds talks about the short-lived United States Football League, a spring-summer league that kicked off in 1983.
Trump owned the league’s New Jersey Generals, and Reynolds was part-owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits.
Reynolds blames Trump for the league’s failure.
“There are always guys who come out of the woodwork and take everything they can. Donald Trump was one such offender,†he says.
He says Trump alone wanted to compete directly with the NFL in the fall, which the other owners and officials saw as unrealistic.
Trump, Reynolds believes, “was angling for a merger with the NFL so he could wind up with an NFL franchise for a song.â€
“[Trump’s] personal ambition sank the USFL,†he says.
“I pray he never gets the chance to do to the USA what he did to the USFL.â€
Spoken like a true FSU grad.
I heard years ago that he used prescription drugs in mass quantities-no matter who you are, that stuff will wreck your health and shorten your life sooner or later-I’m actually surprised he is still around, considering his lifestyle over the last 30-35 years.
I’ve lost far too many friends in the last few years-mostly guys-who had pills for every little thing, real or imagined-suddenly they just crashed without warning. You can only put so many unnatural substances into a body before it quits.
I heard years ago that he used prescription drugs in mass quantities-no matter who you are, that stuff will wreck your health and shorten your life sooner or later-I’m actually surprised he is still around, considering his lifestyle over the last 30-35 years.
I’ve lost far too many friends in the last few years-mostly guys-who had pills for every little thing, real or imagined-suddenly they just crashed without warning. You can only put so many unnatural substances into a body before it quits.
I haven’t seen all of Burt’s movies, but I did like:
Deliverance (a classic)
Best Friends (the two sets of parents and Ron Silver as Larry the producer were hilarious)
Sharky’s Machine (great jazz soundtrack)
Paternity
Rough Cut (loved David Niven)
He and Sally Field should have found a good dramatic movie to make together back in their heyday.
And Rachel Ward.
He’s looked quite sickly for a while.
Nobody gets out alive. I’m surprised Burt has lasted this long.
True, but I'm still wondering why Keith Richards is still alive.
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Has Richards stopped doing heroin? I had heard he quit several years ago.
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“with back surgery in 2009 leaving him addicted to pain killers”
The back pain was the source of the pain pill addiction not the surgery. The surgery failed to give him relief of that pain so the addiction continued.
He is definitely an icon. He has his fans as well as his haters. But he certainly stomped this Earth and left his mark.
I believe it. For every beautiful woman out there,
there’s a guy who’s tired of her sh!t.
Speaking of FSU I’m a grad and Burt Reynolds was really good to FSU. I remember one year he showed up with all new Jackets and some other stuff for the football team. He had a troubled personality but very generous.
Have never attempted to see all of his movies, but have seen a few. Best friend back in the 1970’s had the hots for Reynolds. Burt and Roger Moore were two of her favorites. Deliverance —not Reynolds fault, but the movie left me cold. Certainly not my kind of movie. Not even the scenery could save it. Remember seeing Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit,WW and the Dixie Dance Kings, a movie using the location of Louisiana (Gator?). Plus a few others whose titles have been forgotten and too insignificant to attempt to remember. Burt’s star soon lost its shine and so was the interest. When watching his Evening Shade, it was found to be much more enjoyable than watching his movies. Perhaps ‘maturity’ helped in that aspect. :-/
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