Burt Reynolds at 79 isn’t broke, but he’s broken up over his lost love Sally Field, according to a long profile in Vanity Fair.
“Although the book is largely a work of nostalgia — a valentine to those, including Bette Davis, Johnny Carson, Clint Eastwood, and Sally Field, who shaped his life and career — Reynolds agreed to talk about anything and everything for this article,” wrote Ned Zeman.
His problems dated to 1972, the piece says, “when Reynolds famously posed nude as the centerfold of Cosmopolitan. If he deemed it a parody, the irony was lost on those who’d tired of seeing him run through groupies, starlets, and go-go dancers. Not to mention his 15-minute marriage to Judy Carne, the ‘Sock it to me!’ gal on ‘Laugh-In,’ or subsequent breakups with America’s Sweethearts Dinah Shore, Chris Evert and, especially, Sally Field.”
Old fans still hold a torch for Burt and Sally, though.
“Men are like that… You find the perfect person, & then you do everything you can to screw it up.” Burt Reynolds https://t.co/JOXznK3xeD
— Regina Kenney (@Regina_Kenney) November 6, 2015
Burt Reynolds says he regrets breaking up with Sally Field in the 80’s. Maybe him & Adele can write a song together pic.twitter.com/m07FQHn1M7
— Krissy (@P0tterhead_394) November 6, 2015
They were so good together….. I was sad when they broke up. https://t.co/HDz2R32tfb
— Lisa Renee Jones (@LisaReneeJones) November 6, 2015