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...Burt Reynolds...
...become an Eastwood or a Reynolds than it does to be a Nicholson or a Redford. Eastwood-Reynolds films are usually dismissed by critics, rarely play the chic little theaters where the cinéastes gather to read subtitles and subtleties, or get nominated for prizes. If anyone talks about Burt and Clint at all in the better intellectual circles, it is to denounce their macho manners and express fear that their habitual resort to violence poses a continuing threat to the morals of the children and, very possibly, to Liberal Democracy and All It Holds Dear...
...year after year after year, when the great scorers in the studio accounting offices come to write the names of the annual box-office winners and losers in their ledgers, the names of Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds reliably turn up in ink as black and shiny as the latter's hairpiece. Across the land?in drive-ins and shopping-center triplexes, even in the big cities, where action pictures still provide the underclass with the same kind of escape they always have?Eastwood and Reynolds draw people to theaters in astonishing numbers...
...came out of that closet one night, when he bounced onto Merv Griffin's TV show to make "a terrific major announcement" about his Dan August series. "Oh, that's great," his host encouraged. "Yeah, I've just been canceled," said Burt, chortling merrily and adding that he now had the distinction of having been canceled at one time or another by all three of the TV networks. "I thought?and it was very calculating?that I could get on television and say, 'Hey, my last picture was a turkey,' and people would find it funny...
That does not mean he has gone soft. A friend calls him "the velvet hammer," and Director Robert Aldrich says: "Behind that false humor arid false modesty is a bright man who's paid his dues. People think he's Charley Charm, but that's only part of it. Burt is a strongwilled, self-centered businessman; he does what serves Burt, and he should...