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09-07-2018, 02:46 AM #1Senior Member
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RIP Burt !
.....RIP Burt Reynolds
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09-07-2018, 03:55 AM #2Razor Vulture
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Burt was great. Entertained us all back in the day. RIP, Burt!
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09-07-2018, 09:59 AM #3Giveaway Guy
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Bandit, you sumbitch..............sure gonna miss you Burt
Rest In ParadiseLook sharp and smell nice for the ladies.~~~Benz
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring ― Marilyn Monroe
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09-07-2018, 10:48 AM #4Senior Member
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RIP. Burt. Ya left us with some great movies, and memories.
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09-07-2018, 11:47 AM #5lobeless
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I love his quote about being a movie star in spite of some of his movies. Deliverance certainly wasn’t one of those however, i remember it making a huge impact on me back in the day.
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09-07-2018, 11:48 AM #6Senior Member
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Leave your boots on when you get there Burt, better for traction!
RIP man.
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09-08-2018, 04:28 PM #7'with that said'
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I'd heard of this story many years ago--here's the man himself telling the tale.
https://www.haystack.tv/v/burt-reyno...rsal-conan-tbsOur house is as Neil left it- an Aladdin’s cave of 'stuff'.
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09-08-2018, 09:09 PM #8Senior Member
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That's a classic scene from a classic movie, Dave-I have the special edition DVD, and it's kind of a ritual for me to watch it the night before I fish the Chattooga where it was filmed (yeah, I'm weird like that). It's a wild and beautiful river, and I've never had the slightest problem, though the locals over that way can be, um, colorful.
Originally Posted by earcutter
Interesting story from the extras on that DVD-Apparently, Burt had worked at Ghost Town in Maggie Valley with Herbert "Cowboy" Coward (the hillbilly who wanted John Voight to "pray" for him) about 15 years prior to Deliverance. Burt suggested him to the director, John Boorman (one of my favorites), and he was hired. When told what he would have to do for the movie, he famously quipped: "I've done worse." He also was drunk on PBR every day on set, apparently.
Anyway, Burt didn't make "thoughtful" movies like, say, Kevin Costner, but they were fun. Who didn't enjoy Smokey and the Bandit, and then want to go out and buy the iconic Firebird that was its other star? Jackie Gleason was also his usual awesome in that one.
Oh, and he used to have a house on Lake Greenwood in our South Carolina Midlands with then-wife Loni Anderson in the late 70's. RIP Burt!Last edited by ScoutHikerDad; 09-08-2018 at 09:41 PM.
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