Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Frail Burt Reynolds Arrives In New York For Late Show Interview
Yahoo ^ | November 18, 2015 | Ben Arnold

Posted on 11/18/2015 11:07:47 AM PST by EveningStar

Cutting an increasingly frail figure, Burt Reynold arrived in New York yesterday for an interview on Stephen Colbert's 'The Late Show'.

Still using a cane to walk, the 79-year-old star hit the studio as part of his press rounds for new memoir 'But Enough About Me'.

Former Hollywood macho man Reynolds has been suffering ill health for many years now, with back surgery in 2009 leaving him addicted to pain killers.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: burtreynolds; butenoughaboutme; elderly; hollywood; stephencolbert; thelateshow
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-54 last
To: lee martell

Don’t forget Smokey and The Bandit movies, as well as one of my all-time faves: “The Longest Yard.”


41 posted on 11/18/2015 1:07:55 PM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Vermont Lt

Age..happens to us all. No one is immune, tho there is an alternative. Bette Davis once stated a very true warning *old age ain’t no place for sissies.* Most of us eventually find ourselves in that location. We go down the dusty road with an entirely new attitude ..about everything.


42 posted on 11/18/2015 1:20:30 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Monterrosa-24

Yes, do remember he was in Gun Smoke.. Many times that is only a dim memory due to the age issue. :) A blacksmith, right?


43 posted on 11/18/2015 1:34:50 PM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: hsmomx3

Yeah I don’t think the guy is exactly straight although I don’t think he’s ever been caught with a guy. Who knows, he falls in that ambiguously gay territory like Tom Cruise and George Clooney, but something definitely looks ill in Reynolds.


44 posted on 11/18/2015 2:11:44 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: HamiltonJay

So my uncle was right when he told me that if I married a poor ugly girl I would never have a problem!

Calling uncle Jeffs wife homely would have been a compliment, but he was never unhappy.
Married her when he was 17, had five children and was still married to the same woman when he died at 71.

He also said ugly women worked harder at EVERYTHING (wink, wink) in a marriage.

Unc Jeff was quite a fella.


45 posted on 11/18/2015 2:34:23 PM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of a loving God and Virginian because Jesus loves me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: EveningStar

Actually he looks pretty good.


46 posted on 11/18/2015 2:37:19 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EveningStar

Burt with Johnny
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/abc_abc_carson_reynolds_100811_wg.jpg


47 posted on 11/18/2015 2:39:11 PM PST by minnesota_bound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V K Lee

My 93 year old mother in law lives with us. I have seen it happen. My 85 year old mother seems to be happy sitting in her apartment waiting for the grim reaper to appear.

I’d rather meet the day with hope and a smile.


48 posted on 11/18/2015 2:44:29 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: V K Lee

Yes, he played the blacksmith/gunsmith who was part Indian.


49 posted on 11/18/2015 7:34:27 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Protect the Bill of Rights; flaglady47
Folks, take a gander at the first photo of Burt at the link.

If you ask me, he's still a danged interesting and good-lookin' guy at his advanced age.

Maybe not hot, but still pretty warm, lol.

Leni

50 posted on 11/18/2015 7:52:03 PM PST by MinuteGal ("I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction" - Borax Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: EveningStar

I have great memories of watching Reynolds in Cannonball Run at a grassy drive-in movie up in the mountains. The sunset before the movie was worth the admission price.


51 posted on 11/18/2015 8:07:49 PM PST by Rebelbase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinuteGal

He’s warm. No doubt :).

I am especially impressed with his skin. Dinah Shore looked as good, even better at that age.

BTW: Just heard Burt will be on Fox & Friends.


52 posted on 11/19/2015 2:47:54 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Burt was on Fox and Friends this morning. Made many comments about his “girls”, and then made a remark about how Ricardo Montalban had meant something to him. Did not elaborate and was out of context.

Any meaning?

53 posted on 11/19/2015 6:45:44 AM PST by PeaRidge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Ronald_Magnus

Wow needless to say Marlon wasn’t fan.


54 posted on 11/20/2015 5:21:26 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-54 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson