Didn’t he physically abuse Loni Anderson while they were married?
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Well, there it is.
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I was thinking that I remembered hearing some rumors about him abusing someone in the past, so it’s possible.
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Green grass & high tides old fella’!
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I didn’t open myself to new writers or risky parts because I wasn’t interested in challenging myself as an actor. I was interested in having a good time.
Yanno, I would have made exactly the same mistake. I usually do.
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The Last Movie Star (2017) was an excellent movie. He played an old washed up movie star.
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I’m starting to think ain’t nobody from our childhood is going to slip through without getting caught (and rightfully so).
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We’re all human… which means we’re all fallible as fuck; because contrary to what we like to tell ourselves, the entire species is deeply flawed.
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“I may not be the best actor in the world,” he concluded, “but I’m the best Burt Reynolds in the world.”
Hope they buried you in a black Trans Am.
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I have to confess: I love Smokey and the Bandit. You can take the boy…und so weiter.
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I come to praise his voiceover work in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a standout among many great actors there (Luis Guzman, Dennis Hopper, Lee Majors, William Fichtner, many more).
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My fave Reynolds movie is “Sharky’s Machine,” a neo-Noir with a great cast, gritty action/stunts, Henry Silva’s bonkers villain, and one of the coolest opening helicopter shots (of late 1970s Atlanta) ever filmed.
RIP Burt.
edit: correcting the spelling of “Sharky”
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My uncle Stephen still rocks a Burt 'stache (or, a Bob Carrolgees one, if one is feeling less charitable)
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Yes. Thanks for reminding me.
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Burt also directed it. I’m surprised it’s not better remembered.
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I’ve been going though a bit of mid-life ennui on this sort of topic. I just binge watched the first 3 seasons of Three’s Company as I was getting into the process of shaking up my older memories. Watching something familiar and yet it feels like it is from an alien world. In the 40 years since I watched this (Possibly less as I may have watched this in reruns 30 years ago) I came out gay and it’s kinda weird looking at the 70s mico-agression references to gay.
Still, John Ritter was so damn cute and nice and fun to watch I can forgive many sins there.
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I just worry about the hagiography effect when a celebrity dies, you know what I mean?
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My fave is The Longest Yard. The real version.
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I hear ya. The whole premise of the show was pretty misogynistic and homophobic when you think about it:
“Two (presumably) straight attractive women and a straight attractive guy can’t all live together under one roof, even if they all pay rent - what would the rest of the neighborhood think???”
But I also am willing to forgive that show a lot of its many shortcomings, because John Ritter will always have a special place in my heart.
Totally; I hate it how many people try to ‘deify’ someone when they die - especially wealthy or famous people.
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When DID America decide it was bad to get drunk and hit people, anyway?
Serious question. It was sometime after I was born, and before now.
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