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The executive worked quickly to modify the network’s schedule to ensure any shows in the lineup or in development didn't focus on sex.
AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT BURT REYNOLDS AUDITIONS TV
As 1979's fall season drew near, the TV vet made it clear the network was going to make some drastic changes to its programming.Īfter receiving a number of complaints from viewers and advertisers about the network's adult-focused programming, Silverman felt it was “ very obvious" that the network needed to tone down its content. The actor also kept busy on television, with guest appearances in "The X-Files," "Ed," "My Name Is Earl" and "Burn Notice" and voicework on "Robot Chicken," "Duck Dodgers," "American Dad" and "Archer.Silverman and his trusty gut arrived at NBC in 1978 as the network's new president and CEO. Though he was highly favored to win, Reynolds undercut himself by firing his agent for casting him in the part and shunning publicity for the popular role.Īfter losing the Oscar he continued to work regularly in indifferent projects like "The Crew," "Mystery, Alaska" and "Universal Soldier III." He was second billed in Renny Harlin's racecar actioner "Driven," starring Sylvester Stallone played the coach in the comedic 2005 remake of "The Longest Yard" that starred Adam Sandler and played Boss Hogg in the feature adaptation of "The Dukes of Hazzard," also in 2005, but other film work was mostly in lower-profile material. Toward the end of the decade he received critical kudos for his performance as a self-deluded porno director in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights," which brought him an Oscar nomination for supporting actor. RELATED: How Burt Reynolds changed the way we thought about sex: By getting naked on a bearskin rug.
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By the mid-'90s the former $1 million-plus player's services could be had for as little as $100,000 (which he received for "Striptease"). Reynolds' assured performance in the controversial and violent "Deliverance" started him on a decade or more of enormous success.īut after riding the wave of popularity, a messy, high-profile divorce from and custody battle with Anderson in the early 1990s and a tell-almost-all autobiography, "My Life," in 1994 cast him in a negative light, not helped by his understandable, but often irritable attitude toward the press, which was always keenly interested in his love life.Ĭomeback attempts in movies including "Switching Channels," "Cop and a Half," "The Man From Left Field" (which he also directed) and "Striptease" were failures. But his '60s output, which included "Navajo Joe," "100 Rifles" and "Sam Whiskey," did little to further his feature film aspirations.
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He was simultaneously making movies, starting with "Armored Command" and "Angel Baby" in 1961. He appeared for three seasons as a Native American on the long-running "Gunsmoke" in the mid-'60s, then moved over to the cop/detective genre as the lead in "Hawk" (1966) and "Dan August" (1970-71).
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Reynolds landed several series starring roles, mostly in Westerns, starting with "Riverboat" in 1959. He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived "Look We've Come Through" and began accumulating guest shots on television in programs such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Zane Grey Theater," "Route 66," "Perry Mason" and "The Twilight Zone."
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Roberts" starring Charlton Heston in 1956.
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Reynolds turned his attention to acting, moving to New York, where he struggled for several years until he landed a role in a revival of "Mr. But his promising career as a running back was cut short by a knee injury suffered in a car accident. was born in Waycross, Ga., and attended Florida State U.