Word: burtness
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...supporting actor awards, it's generally agreed, are where new talent has the best chance of getting recognized, in which case Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets) has the advantage. However, the Academy also likes old stars who make noteworthy comebacks, and Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights) did win the Golden Globe...
...actor would have mapped out this road to celebrity. But jaunty, reckless Burt Reynolds followed it, becoming the No. 1 box-office attraction for five straight years (1978-82) and, quite possibly, the zeitgeist star of his generation. You know what? This still is his generation. Last week, the day before he turned 62, Reynolds copped an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the porno patriarch in Boogie Nights...
...Boogie Nights auteur Paul Thomas Anderson says, Reynolds was more than "the coolest guy on the planet"; in Deliverance and Starting Over, "Burt also had great chops as an actor." The athletic grace, caged intensity and wounded dignity are on display in Boogie Nights, but so is Reynolds' status as '70s icon--once tarnished, now burnished...
...Even for Burt Reynolds--once and forever movie star, icon and damn fine actor--there are things in life besides an Oscar...
...Even though Harvard is a hostile environment,I hope that other students will carry on [withSLLR]," Burt said...