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As he did, Austen sneaked up behind him, put his arms around him, and said, “I think I love you.” Paul’s an actor, but you’re not.”Įnraged, Reynolds could only think to call him an a- -hole, and went into the kitchen to collect himself. He flung barbs Reynolds’ way, like, “What do you plan to do, drive a truck or what?” And, “You’re not an actor. Reynolds befriended Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman around this time, and one night, Woodward brought him to dinner at Gore Vidal’s home, where it was the three of them and Vidal’s companion, Howard Austen.Īs Vidal got drunker, he began verbally abusing Reynolds, realizing Reynolds had feelings for Woodward, Newman’s wife. He declined, and realized only the next day that he had refused the advances of Greta Garbo. She wouldn’t leave Reynolds’ side all night, and asked him to go home with her. There, Inge introduced Reynolds to a “stunning,” somewhat familiar-looking older woman, who wore “a bright yellow silk blouse with nothing underneath.”

In 1957, when he was 21, he appeared on Broadway in “Mister Roberts.” One night, the playwright, William Inge, invited him to a party at Inge’s apartment on Riverside Drive. Reynolds seemed destined for sex-symbol stardom. Rather than a complete and chronological account of his life, Reynolds, the top box-office attraction for five straight years in the 1970s, worked with co-author Jon Winokur to compile chapters about people in his life, telling his own story through the often-wild tales of those around him. Reynolds’ new book, “ But Enough About Me” (Putnam), is an unconventional memoir. ‘I got my Sinatra story.’ ” A world of Burt “ ‘Where the hell are you going?’ Frank said. “Frank told Nicky, ‘If I ever come in and don’t see Hector, I’ll never come back.”Īt that point, before a card had been dealt, Reynolds got up to leave. Sinatra asked one for his name - it was Hector - and said, “Hector, break ’em!” The busboy did as he was told “until the floor was covered with broken glass.”

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The confused restaurateur started sending in busboys with trays full of empty glasses. “Now bring me three grand worth of glasses,” he said. Sinatra nodded to his two bodyguards, and one at a time, each counted out $3,000 in cash and handed it to Blair. “I don’t know, Frank, a few bucks apiece.” “How much do those glasses cost?” Sinatra asked his host. When he joined them, he found them “seated at a big round table in the middle of the kitchen, with all the waiters and busboys rushing back and forth.”Īs Sinatra called five-card stud, there was a “big crash,” as “an unlucky busboy had dropped a tray of glassware.”Īs Reynolds recalls it, the owner, Nicky Blair, came in “yelling at the poor busboy,” and Sinatra did not approve. Summoning Reynolds, Sinatra invited him to a poker game he and his friends would be holding in the restaurant’s kitchen after their meal. While out to dinner one night at the popular LA eatery Nicky Blair’s, Burt Reynolds caught the eye of Frank Sinatra, who was dining with his entourage.

Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit cast