Was burt reynolds gay

But I also kept wondering, but is this still true in the South? You never heard a woman saying she wanted to fuck Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds; there was more to it than just sexual energy. I love Madisonville, and the Tchefuncte River area.

Speculation about Burt Reynolds’ sexuality started during his peak fame in the s and s, a time when Hollywood expected leading men to fit a “tough guy” image. It IS still like this in the rural South. Mind you, when I was living in Kansas our movie options were limited.

Guess what? Louisiana has always been a conservative state, despite the existence of New Orleans. Do these kind of corrupt power structures still exist in the South? And if there was an Internet and fan fic, a lot of people would have been writing erotic romances about the two of them.

It was the decade Playgirl launched more on that laterJim Palmer began doing underwear ads, and the poster of Mark Spitz and his gold medals wearing a speedo sold like cheap beer on a payday. Burt Reynolds Burton Leon Reynolds Jr.

(February 11, – September 6, ) was an American actor most famous during the s and '80s.

Neil Patrick Harris Knew : Burt Reynolds, with his rubber zip up sleeveless vest, with the zipper strategically unzipped enough to show off the thick black pelt of hair on his chest, stood in for the masculine ideal; a strong man who, despite living in the city, only truly comes alive when pitting himself against nature in a game of survival; he is also the only member

Thanks, Murtaughs! Both movies ran for about three months…. Would this read like a period piece? A while ago, I was following a Twitter conversation about Burt Reynolds movies from the s. Originally French then Spanish before becoming American, Louisiana also was a part of the Confederacy and had an economy based on enslavement.

Gossip columns and tabloids fueled the rumors because Reynolds often joked about his personal life and kept things private. [3][4] He became well known in television series such as Gunsmoke (–), Hawk () and Dan August (–). Political and police corruption have always gone hand-in-hand in the Southern states; the police merely existing to enforce and enable the existing power structure.

As a big star, he was linked to many women, but his playful humor and reluctance to talk seriously. They drove a fast car with an odd but distinctive paint job cars were also stars that decade and the show also not only was a hit but a part of the zeitgeist, too.

Burt Reynolds died Sept. And it also began the rise of the himbo shows; the male equivalent of all those jiggle shows with big breasted girls without a bra jumping up and down; those shows were almost guaranteed ratings in the Top Ten. Starksy and Hutch was the first real himbo show that I can remember; David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser were very good looking with great bodies that were very masculine as well—and the show showed them shirtless as much as possible, or in towels, or—you get the idea.

The summer before my senior year Smokey and the Bandit opened on a Friday, and the following Friday Star Wars opened in the other theater.

I watched every week—as did my sister and almost every girl I knew—but it being a macho cop show, it was okay for men to watch, too. 6,at the age of Here's what we've learned about the Smokey and the Bandit star only after his death. As I have been reviewing things that helped confirm to myself as a child that I was a big old homo for my book The Summer of Lost BoysI found myself remembering a lot of things, memories from the darkest dusty and cobwebbed chasms of my memory banks.

This was also the same time period that gave us corrupt politician Boss Hogg and the inept sheriff and deputies he controlled. I grew up on the cusp of some societal and cultural changes, and not the least of which was the fact that in the s, men finally began being sexualized and held to a kind of male beauty standard that gradually changed that standard—which for a burgeoning young gay boy, was perfect timing.

There was a drive-in movie theater on the way from our little town Americus to the county seat of Emporia, and there was a small twin cinema on Commercial Street.