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Burt Reynolds, Put the Pedal to the Metal - How a Nude Centerfold Sex Symbol Seduced Hollywood (Paperback)
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Burt Reynolds, Put the Pedal to the Metal - How a Nude Centerfold Sex Symbol Seduced Hollywood (Paperback)
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In the 1970s and '80s, Burt Reynolds represented a new breed of
movie star: Charming and relentlessly macho, he was a good ol'
Southern boy who made hearts throb and audiences laugh. He was Burt
Reynolds, a football hero and a guy you might have shared some
jokes with in a redneck bar. After an impressive but tormented
career, rivers of negative publicity, a self-admitted history of
bad choices, and a spectacular fall from Hollywood grace, he died
in Jupiter, Florida, at the age of 82 in September of 2018. Once,
he posed nude for a woman's magazine. Even though, by his
admission, it ultimately hurt his career, fan mail from horny
females poured in from across the nation. For five years, both in
terms of earnings and popularity, he was the number one box office
star in the world. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) became the
biggest-grossing car-chase film of all time. As he put it, perhaps
as a means of bolstering his image, "I like nothing better than
making love to some of the most beautiful women in the world." He
was referring to his sexual involvements with Catherine Deneuve,
Farrah Fawcett, Dolly Parton, Cybill Shepherd, Tammy Wynette, Lucie
Arnaz, Kim Basinger, Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Lorna Luft,
Sarah Miles, Angie Dickinson, Elizabeth Taylor, or Marilyn Monroe,
whom he once picked up on his way to the Actors Studio in New York
City. He also hung out with Bette Davis. ("I always had a thing for
her.") Love with another VIP came in the form of that "Sweetheart
of the G.I.s," Dinah Shore. Their May-September affair sparked
endless chatter. "I appreciate older women," he once said in a
moment of self-revelation. He entered another much-publicized
romance with actress Sally Field, the "second love of my life."
After his death, The Flying Nun said, "Burt still lives in my
heart," but then expressed relief that, because of his recent
death, he'd never read what she'd said about him in her memoir. Men
liked him too: He played poker with Frank Sinatra; shared boozy
nights with John Wayne; intercepted a "pass" from closeted Spencer
Tracy; talked "penis size" with Mark Wahlberg; went "wench-hunting"
with Johnny Carson; and threatened to kill Marlon Brando, to whom
his appearance was often compared. His least happy (some said "most
poisonous") marriage--to Loni Anderson--was rife with dramas played
out more in the tabloids than in the boudoir. According to
Reynolds, "She's vain, she's a rotten mother, she sleeps around,
and she spent all my money." This biography--the first
comprehensive overview of the "redneck icon" ever
published--reveals the joys and sorrows of a movie star who thrived
in, but who was then almost buried by the pressures and
insecurities of the New Hollywood. A tribute to "truck stop"
America, it's about the accelerated life of a courageous spirit who
"Put His Pedal to the Metal" with humor, high jinx, and pizzazz. He
predicted his own death: "Soon, I'll be racing a hotrod in Valhalla
in my cowboy hat and a pair of aviators." On his tombstone, he
wanted it writ: "He was not the best actor in the world, but he was
the best Burt Reynolds in the world." Publicity from tabloids and
mainstream media will accompany the release of this book, along
with radio interviews targeted to Nashville and other
country-western markets and videotaped book trailers illustrating
the ironies of his rags-to-riches-to-rags saga.
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