I wrote a blog post after Reynolds died at this linkLink
(Burt Reynolds interview at 14 min mark)
If you want to see Burt Reynolds living in Arkansas then you will have to watch the film White Lightning which was filmed in Benton, Arkansas. I put a few clips below and if you are familiar with Benton you will recognize many of the streets during the chases. Also there is one scene at I-30 Speedway.
Max Brantley wrote today on the Arkansas Times Blog:
News article from Florida about foreclosure action against actor Burt Reynolds for debt on a Florida mansion says legal papers were sent to Reynolds’ home in Little Rock. However, Ark. Business found,that address apparently was for Reynolds’ Arkansas accountant, Young and Associates, to whom his property tax bill was mailed for several years through 2009 (the tab was about $40,000 in 2010 local property taxes on a home appraised at $2.4 million, down from $2.9 million.)
These are some other comments made on the Arkansas Times Blog:
max,
didn’t Stephens used to handle his investments. wonder if the address is for them
I saw him having lunch with Billy Bob Thornton one day in July but I just figured he was in town for a show, or business or something. I had no idea he had a residence here.
Burton Leon Reynolds aka Burt Reynolds has a listing as a director and active officer in Clematis Films, Inc. and Clematis Productions, Inc., with locations in North Little Rock, AR and Tequesta, FL…a Lenore Haas is also listed with dealings in those companies….I also know that YEARS ago…the mid to late 70’s he had a physician in Little Rock.
This is so strange but my wife said last night she thought she saw Burt Reynolds in downtown LR yesterday. Now comes this story. So maybe she did.
Funniest Joke Show #01 Act 05 Real People Joke F Dr Jess Moody Pastor
Jess Moody, a pastor, tells a joke about Burt Reynolds. Burt wanted to hunt, but they could only go to one land. The landowner doesn’t like Jess, but when he got there he was excited to see him and asked him to kill his mule since it was ill. He plays a trick on Burt and tells him it went bad and kills the mule in front of him. Burt kills two of his cows and they run.
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Remember the tv series “Evening Shade” that ran from 1990 to 1994? A friend told me that Reynolds was very impressed with the neighborhood in the Heights on Edgehill Road. He was told the prices of several of the homes back in 1994 and he was amazed the prices were all under 10 million. He said the homes in Beverly Hills were 5 times as much. Maybe he bought one of those “inexpensive houses?” Not likely though. The reason the papers in Florida were sent to Arkansas is because the accounting firm that handles some of his business is in Little Rock as Max pointed out earlier. He still lives in Beverly Hills according to reports I got off the internet.
Nancy Reagan with Dinah Shore and Burt Reynolds in the Blue Room during a state dinner for Premier Zhao Ziyang of the Peoples Republic of China. 1/10/84.
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