From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, April 6, 2003 at 12:14:35 AM UTC-8, Mpoconnor7 wrote:   
   > >> WTH did Hollywood see in that guy anyways?   
   > >   
   > >The ladies like the 'stache.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > His bachelor playboy image had a lot to do with it; his well publicized   
   affairs   
   > with Dinah Shore and Sally Field. His posing nude in Playgirl also added to   
   > that image; he was the first actor ever to do such a thing. In all his roles   
   > in that era he played likeable characters, unlike Clint Eastwood, for   
   example,   
   > who generally played a hardass in many of his films until he started doing   
   the   
   > chimp movies and he began to lighten up a little. Most of Burt's characters   
   > were happy go lucky anti-establishment types who liked to flaunt the law by   
   > driving fast cars and outrunning the cops, or taking on the system in one way   
   > or another like in The Longest Yard. He was the number one male film star for   
   > four or five years in a row.   
   > I always thought Burt was at his best when he wasn't playing the good ole   
   boy;   
   > Boogie Nights (where he wore a goatee) is the most famous example but movies   
   > like Starting Over (shaved moustache) and The Man Who Loved Women (moustache   
   > and beard) were other attempts to to something different, and he wasn't too   
   bad   
   > cast against type. He could have been a much better actor (and much more   
   > respected actor) if he had taken more risks during his prime instead of doing   
   > one Hal Needham film after another to stay on top the pyramid for as long as   
   he   
   > could.   
   > Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man   
   > "The probability of one person being right increases in a direct porportion   
   to   
   > the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"   
      
   Vords of Vizdom:   
      
   - Macho does not prove mucho.   
      
   Zsa Zsa Gabor   
      
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