Burt reynolds biography book
My Life
November 20, 2018
It was certainly entertaining! It’s sort of the Hollywood version of Wilt Chamberlain’s biography and I’d suggest taking it with many grains of salt.
If you’re looking for anything fact-based or any semblance of modesty, go elsewhere. But if you want to hear a bunch of wild Hollywood stories and learn about what’s inside his head, this is the book for you.
Burt Reynolds lived quite the life and came from humble beginnings. I suspect many of his stories are exaggerated or even completely fabricated, this is a man whose brain changed with Hollywood, who had come to believe he is the same invincible characters he portrays on the screen. It’s a little sad but also a little charming from a distance. On one hand I feel bad for all the women he’s gone through, but on the other hand they knew exactly what they were getting into and most came back for seconds and thirds. He of course gives his side of the story and it’s never his fault with any of his ex-wives or flings.
I know he did some of his own stunts, but again he is clearly exaggerating. I have a hard time believing that he was really getting hit at full-speed by Ray Nitzsche 5-6 times daily while filming The Longest Yard or that he was undefeated in 20 amateur boxing matches (which he just slipped in). He brings up a bunch of incidents where he supposedly beats up or scares other men who are mistreating women and/or innocents. Like I said, he’s living in his own Hollywood upstairs.
The most incredulous story is how he went over a 90-foot falls while filming Deliverance, survived, got caught in a hydrofoil (?) that spit him out 200 yards downstream and in the process vaporized his clothes, leaving him buck-naked standing in the stream.
Yep, he really said that!
The book was written in 1993. He covers the filming of all of his big endeavors and those stories are always interesting to a movie buff (pardon the pun) like myself.
Reading this just two months after Burt Reynolds’s passing and living near where he grew up and also spent his final years made it hit closer to home. A most eerie experience, I was right in the middle of the book in my local E.R. waiting room when a nurse informed me that Reynolds had been rushed into the very same room several times including the last day of his life two months prior.
He was a character, no doubt, and we all miss him. Like I said, just take it with some salt!
If you’re looking for anything fact-based or any semblance of modesty, go elsewhere. But if you want to hear a bunch of wild Hollywood stories and learn about what’s inside his head, this is the book for you.
Burt Reynolds lived quite the life and came from humble beginnings. I suspect many of his stories are exaggerated or even completely fabricated, this is a man whose brain changed with Hollywood, who had come to believe he is the same invincible characters he portrays on the screen. It’s a little sad but also a little charming from a distance. On one hand I feel bad for all the women he’s gone through, but on the other hand they knew exactly what they were getting into and most came back for seconds and thirds. He of course gives his side of the story and it’s never his fault with any of his ex-wives or flings.
I know he did some of his own stunts, but again he is clearly exaggerating. I have a hard time believing that he was really getting hit at full-speed by Ray Nitzsche 5-6 times daily while filming The Longest Yard or that he was undefeated in 20 amateur boxing matches (which he just slipped in). He brings up a bunch of incidents where he supposedly beats up or scares other men who are mistreating women and/or innocents. Like I said, he’s living in his own Hollywood upstairs.
The most incredulous story is how he went over a 90-foot falls while filming Deliverance, survived, got caught in a hydrofoil (?) that spit him out 200 yards downstream and in the process vaporized his clothes, leaving him buck-naked standing in the stream.
Yep, he really said that!
The book was written in 1993. He covers the filming of all of his big endeavors and those stories are always interesting to a movie buff (pardon the pun) like myself.
Reading this just two months after Burt Reynolds’s passing and living near where he grew up and also spent his final years made it hit closer to home. A most eerie experience, I was right in the middle of the book in my local E.R. waiting room when a nurse informed me that Reynolds had been rushed into the very same room several times including the last day of his life two months prior.
He was a character, no doubt, and we all miss him. Like I said, just take it with some salt!
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