Vintage Image of the Day: The Burt Reynolds Centerfold
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy
Weren't the 70s awesome? In 1972, Burt Reynolds shared a late-night talk show couch (in a totally non-sexual way) with Helen Gurley Brown, author of Sex and the Single Girl and editor of Cosmopolitan. At some point in the evening, Brown challeneged Reynolds to pose for a nude centerfold in her magazine, and he agreed. Here is in all his bearskinned glory, cigarillo barely held aloft by his smirking lips. Later he would write the whole thing off as a joke - and really, just look at it and there's no reason not to believe him - but he'd also write the entire period off as a blur: "I've often said to people, if I met you between '73 and '78, I'm sorry, I don't remember three or four of those years." Well, Burt, here's a reminder...
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7-18-2005 @ 6:02PM
zander106 said...
Before The Longest Yard came out, there was a pretty decent interview with Burt Reynolds in Entertainment Weekly where he cited this particular centerfold as the beginning of a downturn in his career. He apparently caught a decent amount of flack for it back then, and after a couple of unlucky incidents (such as getting hit with a non-breakaway prop while shooting a stunt for a movie) he was spiralling into his Rent-A-Cop and Cop-And-A-Half period.
I was probably a little too young to remember the heyday of his career -- my childhood memories of Burt Reynolds were the Smokey and the Bandit films and the two Cannonball Run movies -- but I really liked him in Boogie Nights. I don't think Dukes of Hazzard or The Longest Yard remake are particularly good career moves, though.
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7-19-2005 @ 8:22AM
mick du russel said...
I suppose for women, this centerfold from the 70's ranks right up there with Farrah Fawcet's poster for the men. Pleasent memories for sure. I always liked Burt Reynold's movies. He always handled himself well when he was the number one box office attraction, unlike some of today's stars.
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7-19-2005 @ 3:10PM
Andrew Kaufmann said...
I can't tell where the bearskin rug stops and Burt Reynolds begins...
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7-19-2005 @ 3:17PM
mick du russel said...
If it were Robin Williams, all you would be able to recognize would be his face. Just a hairy, hairy poster!
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