Burt Reynolds cheated in a drinking contest with Russell Crowe

Burt Reynolds cheated in a drinking contest with Russell Crowe

Burt Reynolds is a movie star who always felt like a man slightly out of time, but he once met his match in Russell Crowe. Although Reynolds began to emerge in popularity in the 1960s, he felt like the type of Golden Age of Hollywood actor who would have flourished under the studio system of the ‘40s. He had a singular aura of charisma and desire to make commercial films that occasionally put him at odds with the more inventive style of the New …