Jerry Reed helped fuel Smokey and the Bandit.
Reed, the laid-back singer/songwriter who became a movie star courtesy Burt Reynolds, and whose banjo-picking tune "East Bound and...
(Hollywoodchicago.com)– Poor Burt Reynolds. As the No. 1 box-office star from 1978 to 1982, he revived his film career in 1997 with “Boogie Nights”. Since then, he has had the long, slow decline of “B” movies and bad remakes.[...] Read more!
COCKY Burt Reynolds was once given some good advice by screen legend Spencer Tracy, a new book reveals. In "Notes to an Actor," theater coach Ron Marasco relates: "When Reynolds was an up-and-coming film actor, he met Tracy, an actor legendary for...
SOME celebrities soft-pedal their Hollywood feuds, but not Kathleen Turner, who's taken off the gloves against such stars as Nicolas Cage and Burt Reynolds. In excerpts from her upcoming autobiography, "Send Yourself Roses," now being serialized in...
Hollywood star BURT REYNOLDS has confessed the infamous scene in which NED BEATTY is raped by a hillbilly was excessively graphic.
The veteran actor has revealed how the ...
BURT Reynolds says the infamous scene where a hillbilly rapes Ned Beatty in "Deliverance" went way too far during filming. "All that 'squeal, piggy, piggy' was not in the script. Two camera operators looked away during the scene because it was...
Burt Reynolds will present the Life Achievement Award to Charles Durning at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 27 in Los Angeles. Beloved TV and film actor Durning will be honored for his career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments.[...] Read more!
LOS ANGELES — Matthew McConaughey and his two-time co-star Kate Hudson are among those set to present trophies at next week's Screen Actors Guild Awards. SAG officials said Wednesday that McConaughey and Hudson will be joined at the Jan. 27 awards ceremony by Denis Leary and Burt Reynolds, who are set to present the guild's 44th life achievement award to Charles Durning.
Seventies movie hearthrob Burt Reynolds hates his iconic bare chested, medallion-wearing image so much he cannot bear to look at old pictures of himself. The Boogie Nights star insists old pin-up photos of him made him look like "an asshole."[...] Read more!
Burt Reynolds has issued a threat to fans who try to steal his toupee - he'll beat them up. The 71-year-old admits he slips on a wig to cover up his baldness when he is in public, but he is confident he can tackle any pranksters who try to snatch it from his head.[...] Read more!
Burt Reynolds is hoping to revive his film career by playing a Hollywood star hoping to revive his career in a new British film. The veteran will play a washed-up star who signs up to play Shakespeare's King Lear in A Bunch of Amateurs.[...] Read more!
TMZ.com: Burt Reynolds pulled some prime tail in college, and when he cast the leftovers aside, they went to his roommate -- famed college football broadcaster Lee Corso.Corso was recently at an event where he recounted what it was like to be the Bandit's... Read more
DIY Network has announced the reunion of Burt Reynolds and one of his most famous automotive co-stars: the late 1970’s model Trans Am. "Celebrity Rides: Burt Builds a Bandit" features the star and a top team of experts who lovingly restore the vehicles. [...] Read more!
Happy Birthday to "The New World" actress Q'orianka Kilcher (1990), Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland (1981), R&B singer Brandy (1979), Linkin Park singer Mike Shinoda (1977), soul singer/pianist D'Angelo (1974), America's sweetheart Jennifer Aniston (1969), wrestler/fighter Ken Shamrock (1964), singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow (1962), actress Carey Lowell (1961), Brazilian songwriter Sergio Mendes (1941), American actor Burt Reynolds (1936), "Gilligan's Island" movie star Tina Louise (1934), funnyman Leslie Nielsen (1926), Hungarian-born actress Eva Gabor (1919; d. 1995), boxing champ Max Baer (1909; d. 1959), and inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847; d. 1939).