It could have be his late-career, award-nominated resurgence in Boogie Nights, perhaps the force with which he burned during the late Seventies or simply that indefatigable moustache.īut deep down, he probably knew that his greatest career regret would be what was proliferating on Twitter: the 1972 Cosmopolitan centrefold in which he poses drunk, smoking and totally nude on a bearskin rug. * Please keep in mind that all text is machine-generated, we do not bear any responsibility, and you should always get advice from professionals before taking any actions.One wonders what Burt Reynolds may have expected the newspapers to cover in the wake of his death. During commercial break, she invited me to be the first Male Nude Centerfold of Magazine. One night in early 1972, after Deliverance was in can but before it was release, I was on the Tonight Show with Helen Gurley Brown, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan and author of the best-selling book Sex and Single Girl. Here, in an excerpt from the November 2015 issue of Cosmopolitan, more than 40 years after he posed atop a bearskin rug, Reynolds recalls the Centerfold photoshoot in his own words. Still, despite his change of heart, Reynolds will be remembered as the man who played a significant role in Gurley Brown's own lifelong mission to put women's sexuality in the public eye. They care more about my pubes than they do play. Standing ovations turn into burlesque Show hoots and catcalls, he write. In his memoir, My Life, Reynolds writes that he found it strange how women reacted to him after the April 1972 issue hit stands.
In interviews throughout the last few years of his life, he expressed regret about shooting and admitted that he looks back at himself during that time as an egomaniac. In 2016, Reynolds told Business Insider he felt photos harmed his reputation as a serious actor, and that Deliverance suffered because of Centerfold. But over years, Reynolds grew to have a complicated relationship with photoshoot that turned him into a sex symbol. Next year, when Doug Lambert creates Playgirl, he credit Reynolds Centerfold as source of inspiration. Prefacing image was declaration that Male Centerfold was long overdue. Gurley Brown had pitched the idea to Reynolds as a milestone in the sexual revolution. He chose a photo that appeared in Magazine himself. His arm is strategically placed in front of his tallywacker, as Reynolds later called it.
He's got a smirk on his face, limp cigarillo dangles from his lips, and a fuzzy bearskin rug is underneath his also-fuzzy body.
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Reynolds stretches across two full pages of the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan. Well, nobody talks about it, but women like to look at men naked. At time, you know, men like to look at women naked, Gurley Brown later say. Shortly before Deliverance, his biggest film up to that point, was release, then-editor Helen Gurley Brown approached Reynolds to be the Magazine's First-ever Male Centerfold. But in addition to his work on camera, Reynolds was also known as a heartthrob, and the now-iconic photoshoot that appeared in the 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan will forever be part of his legacy. Throughout his career, Reynolds starred in more than 100 films, won Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for his roles in gritty action movies and romance films, and was known for doing many of his own dangerous stunts. Burt Reynolds, actor known as Hollywood's outlaw, died on Thursday, Sept.