05-25-2005, 07:37 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
|
|
Administrator & WC HOF'er
I Need Serenity
Status:
Online
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Washington State
Posts: 15,916
vBookie Cash: 1500
| Reynolds Slaps Producer at Premiere
Remind me not to piss Burt Reynolds off. Talk about a serious impulse control problem! Quote:
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Here's a piece of advice to the media: If you haven't seen either of Burt Reynolds' versions of "The Longest Yard," don't tell him to his face.
One TV producer made that mistake just outside the premiere for the football comedy on Tuesday night (May 24) and was chastised physically for the lapse.
According to the AP, Reynolds was surprised when the producer for CBS News PATH admitted he hadn't seen 1974's "The Longest Yard" nor the Adam Sandler-starring remake.
"What ... kind of guy are you?" Reynolds asked and then slapped the man just out of range of cameras. The footage of the incident doesn't provide visuals, but the slap is audible.
A spokesman for Reynolds says that the actor "playfully tapped [the producer] on the cheek, as if to say, 'Well, that's not very nice.' He was kidding."
In the original 1974 film, Reynolds starred as a jailed ex-pro quarterback who's forced to assemble a team of inmates to play against a team of guards. In the updated version, which hits theaters Friday, May 27, he plays a coach.
| |
Vote in this Week's Heat Wave (WC's Hottest Babes Competition)
Nominate Future Contestants Right Here |
|
|  |