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Burt Reynolds Trivia
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- Attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, but only played in two seasons. He was a star running back. His college football career was ended by a knee injury.
- Refused the role that earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar in Terms of Endearment (1983). To this day, Reynolds comments that this was one of his most terrible mistakes. He has also refused the part of James Bond, during the seventies, and he also refused the role Kevin Kline played in Soapdish (1991), with Sally Field, because his then wife, Loni Anderson, told him that the whole Hollywood would laugh at her (Reynolds and Field once had a very publicized love affair).
- Engaged to former waitress Pam Seals. [January 1998]
- He had a long love affair with Dinah Shore
- Was named the #1 top money-making star at the box office in Quigley Publications annual poll of movie exhibitors for five consecutive years from 1978 to 1982, equaling the record set by Bing Crosby from 1944 to 1948. Only Tom Cruise, who was named #1 six times between 1986 and 2001, has won more box office crowns. Both Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks also have been #1 five times, but non-consecutively.
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