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‘Deal’ is No Big Deal as Career of Burt Reynolds Fades Away

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on April 24, 2008 - 12:22am.

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CHICAGO – Poor Burt Reynolds. As the No. 1 box-office star from 1978 to 1982, he revived his film career in 1997 with “Boogie Nights”. Since then, he has had the long, slow decline of “B” movies and bad remakes. Reynolds even tainted his own legacy by participating in the horrible 2005 redo of “The Longest Yard”.

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