Self-deprecating and amusing, Reynolds still has star power

Reynolds remains self-deprecating to the very last page.

Burt Reynolds in Deliverance Picture: Getty

Memoir; But Enough About Me; By Burt Reynolds; Blink Publishing, €19.95

If you’re under 40, Burt Reynolds’ name probably means very little to you. Even his last film role of real note – a silver-tongued porn movie producer in Boogie Nights – feels a lot longer ago than 1997. Where did he go? Why has the career of a man who was as much a cultural fixture of the American 1970s as the ...