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Post by neurosturgeon on Sept 6, 2018 19:10:28 GMT
Burt Reynolds has died at the age of 82.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 19:19:41 GMT
A very nice write up from the Hollywood Reporter Burt Reynolds He will always be there with us .. and usually smiling !  and thanks for all those silly good times. |
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Post by snsurone on Sept 6, 2018 19:20:51 GMT
That's very sad news, Linda.
I'll never forget his cameo appearance as himself in an episode of THE GOLDEN GIRLS, titled "Ladies of the Evening".
His passing means that Buck Taylor is the only surviving cast member of GUNSMOKE.
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 6, 2018 19:25:09 GMT
He will definitely be missed. I always enjoyed his films working with Hal Needham especially. Although he made a supreme comeback in Boogie Nights.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Sept 6, 2018 19:32:59 GMT
Shocking news! I grew up on his movies, I didn't know he was sick. He was supposed to film a role for Tarentino's new movie, I wonder if he did? R.I.P. Burt, you will be missed.  |
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 6, 2018 20:14:30 GMT
Smokey and the Bandit was the first movie I saw of him, in theater too. The movie featured a hot topless Sally Field. Boogie Night is probably his best. RIP
EDIT: The Sally Field scene actually was from a different movie named Stay Hungry that came out around the same time.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 6, 2018 20:32:23 GMT
I saw Gator at a drive-in. That may have been the first.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 6, 2018 21:10:41 GMT
Gonna miss you, Burt. Really gonna miss you.
R.I.P.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 6, 2018 21:33:12 GMT
Just heard this. One of the heartthrobs of my generation. It just seemed as if he'd always be around.
He made me laugh a lot on Evening Shade. I don't know what he was like IRL, but I loved his sense of humor about himself onscreen. RIP guy, a lot of people are going to miss you.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 6, 2018 22:45:50 GMT
amyghost I always imagined that the Burt in Evening Shade was what he was like off screen as well. May not have been true … but it just felt so right ! 
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Post by amyghost on Sept 6, 2018 22:49:37 GMT
amyghost I always imagined that the Burt in Evening Shade was what he was like off screen as well. May not have been true … but it just felt right ! He was a true natural. Whatever the actual case may be, his screen persona just came across effortlessly as being the sort of individual he'd have been offscreen as well. |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 6, 2018 23:38:27 GMT
Very upsetting.
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Post by jervistetch on Sept 6, 2018 23:53:59 GMT
Seldom mentioned is Burt's movie HOOPER. It's sort of an ode to the Hollywood Stunt Man and I rank it high on a list of Reynolds' best films. Thanks for the ride, Burt.  |
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Post by MCDemuth on Sept 7, 2018 0:24:07 GMT
Smokey and the Bandit was the first movie I saw of him, in theater too. The movie featured a hot topless Sally Field. Not in any version of the movie I have ever seen... (Broadcast, Cable, DVD...) I'd remember that! The scene must have been removed from all cuts after the original theater showings... Which I never saw. I was pretty pissed that the DVD didn't include the full Snowman/Fred scene where Fred goes for a swim, that was featured in the TV Cut.. |
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 7, 2018 1:19:42 GMT
Smokey and the Bandit was the first movie I saw of him, in theater too. The movie featured a hot topless Sally Field. Not in any version of the movie I have ever seen... (Broadcast, Cable, DVD...) I'd remember that! The scene must have been removed from all cuts after the original theater showings... Which I never saw. I was pretty pissed that the DVD didn't include the full Snowman/Fred scene where Fred goes for a swim, that was featured in the TV Cut.. You know what. You are probably right. A little search showed that the scene I remembered was from Stay Hungry. It is funny that I have no recollection of seeing that film. Being that was the only time I saw Smokey and the Bandit and it was in a Grindhouse type of theater, Stay Hungry may have been a second feature. Thanks for pointing it out. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 7, 2018 4:52:49 GMT
"I always wanted to experience everything and go down swinging," he wrote in the final paragraph of his memoir. "Well, so far, so good. I know I'm old, but I feel young. And there's one thing they can never take away: Nobody had more fun than I did."
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 7, 2018 5:23:03 GMT
Favorite performance -- as 'Lewis' the determined outdoorsman in DELIVERANCE.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 7, 2018 7:33:30 GMT
R.I.P. Burt Reynolds  |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Sept 7, 2018 8:44:43 GMT
I probably haven't seen as many Burt Reynolds movies as most people have, but I always remember his guest star appearance on The X-Files in the Season 9 episode 'Improbable'.
R.I.P.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 7, 2018 9:51:30 GMT
One of my favorite celebrity quotes came from an old Playboy interview with Burt (I may be paraphrasing slightly, but this is close): "You can lie, you can steal, you can commit murder--but to be boring is a sin. And God will punish you for that."  Well, whatever other sins Burt might have committed, he was never boring. |
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