Black female singers get the adulation in death that Burt Reynolds should be getting.
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Mark Steyn rules. Best combo actor tribute and movie review I have ever read.
I never understood the fuss over Deliverance.
Four guys go on a picnic.
One of them plays a tune with Bruce Springsteen.
Bill Clinton and James Carville challenge them to a game of Cornhole.
Jimmy Carter flails at a rabbit in a lake.
The end.
Burt told a story once that in the 60’s he and Clint Eastwood were fired the same day from a job. Clint for having too big of an adam’s apple and Burt was told he couldn’t act.
Walking back to their truck he tells Clint “I feel bad for you. See I can learn to act but you’re stuck with that damn adam’s apple.”
Burt had a highly underrated sense of humor and actually became a very fine actor over the years. And I might say Clint isn’t doing badly either, despite the adam’s apple.
Thank you Burt for all the wonderful memories.
In the movie Sharkey’s Machine, Burt’s character is tortured and has two fingers cut off. That scene has stayed in my mind since I saw it nearly 40 years ago. When Burt Reynolds was good, he could be exceptionally good.
Terrible date movie
Mark is freaky smart and hilarious. Love him when he subs for Rush. You can’t passively listen, just when you’ve gotten his humor he’s already two steps ahead
Clark Gable. John Wayne. Ward Bond. James Garner. Burt Reynolds.
Whom do we have now? Ryan Gosling. Bradley Cooper.
Well, we do have Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt, but still...
Steyn the thinker and writer doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
Farewell, Burt. You were an American classic. I’m kind of partial to “Hustle” myself. A damned fine picture.
Whatever its artistic merits, “Deliverance” gave urban Americans a memorable, false image of rural America.
I was waiting for Steyns’s eulogy of art Reynolds. He didn’t disappoint.
Good movie. What makes it memorable to me is the ending. They got away with it, but not in the mind. That aspect is unusual imo.