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From: hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Burt Reynolds Rumors
Message-ID: <1828@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 16:16:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 16:16:19 1986
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In article <91@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> gerber@mit-amt.UUCP (Andrew S. Gerber) writes:
>I've heard the same rumor (Burt being gay) before.  Don't believe it
>unless you have proof.  If I believed every "he's gay" rumor I've ever
>heard, then the following people are gay:

The most likely source of this rumor is an appearance Burt made on Carson's
Tonight Show back in the late 60's/early 70's, just after he had made the
Cosmopolitan Magazine centerfold.

Johnny had asked Burt about how he felt being a sex symbol.  He replied
that he had no idea why women though ot him as a sex symbol, because there
are so many really beautiful actors, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford,
who were beyond mortal beauty, and he could "turn gay" for one of them.
(nervous laughter from the audience)

I'm not sure if this is the same episode in which Burt came in wearing a
pair of leather pants a shiny black shirt, only to indulge with Johnny
in an egg-tossing competition where Johnny ended up putting an egg down
Burt's pands and breaking it.

THAT gets shown on the "20 years of carson" shows but Burt's remarks about
turning gay are somehow not reshown.

Hutch