Burt Reynolds' Abandoned Mausoleum

A lot of dirty little secrets.

This is why you always need to pay up front for the perpetual care package!

So where is he buried?

R3, he was cremated.

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is BURT, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level asphalt stretches far away.

Almost enough room for his ego.

It looks like a bomb shelter

At least it doesn’t have hardwood floors

Only at DL..... A Tasteful Friends thread on Burt’s Final Resting Place. I love how he wallpapered the guest bathroom with his Cosmo Centerfold.

No granite countertop? No sale!

[quote] I had no clue it had room for 18 bodies...I wonder who else he thought would be buried there?

I’m sure at the time he expected Dom DeLuise to take a few of those spots. 3 or 4 at least.

Well that was grim.

This is really creepy and sad.

I had no idea Burt Reynolds was originally from Michigan. I thought he was thoroughly Southern.

It looks like it was really built on the cheap.

He must have had the hardest old age. His ego became so ridiculously oversized in the 70s and early 80s, and then it all came crashing down.

If your husband builds your grave before you die, run.

"Gone, But Not Forgotten" is a myth.

When I found out that Loni would not be immolated alive along with Burt's withered corpse, I admit I lost ALL interest I ever had in either of them.

Jesus that’s bizarre. It looks like one of those bunkers the Germans built in occupied Europe in WWII that someone stumbles on.

Did he really think people revere him so much that he’d have an Elvis-like post-life fan base?

Loni Anderson went to my high school in Minnesota, albeit years before I went there. So did Richard Dean Anderson.

Besides the already-mentioned, Dom DeLuise, there's probably a space for Charles Nelson Reilly.

Will Loni be buried here?

You don’t know what a mausoleum is, do you?

They should bury the cast of Smokey & The Bandit here.

He should be buried with Dom DeLuise

I don't know anyone who thinks that far ahead.

Burt could do a lot of things, but manage money was not one of them. Where money was concerned he was impetuous, foolhardy, reckless, and just plain stupid. He was one of those people who acted as if money was growing on trees and it would never stop. Loni Anderson was the same way. When he was married to her she was spending his money like a drunken sailor. But for her he might have never gone into bankruptcy. That bitch almost wiped him out with her out of control spending then her outlandish demands when they divorced. The other problem he had were all the hangers on who crowded around him for many years he'd shell out money on. He had a big gay contingent of people in the business as part of his posse, from both the acting side and the crew side. And sadly many of them were only around for the perks. When the perks stopped they moved on to another patsy.

This was one of his impetuous buys. He bought this huge mansion in Loganville, Ga. once and I doubt he and Loni stayed there more than a few weeks.

I don't know anyone who thinks that far ahead.

Well, that shows the limitations of your social sphere.

Leave it to a Datalounger to blame a woman for financial woes when his first sentence lays the blame directly at the man’s feet.

According to Loni, Burt refused point-blank to fuck her after they married. I would've spent all his money, too.

Burt was allegedly only worth $5 million at the time of his death. He dodged estate taxes by setting up a trust for his 30 year-old adopted son Quinton (who had BDF, btw).

R11, get real.

It was 8 spots for Dom.

[R30]: "According to Loni, Burt refused point-blank to fuck her after they married."

Did he fuck her before they were married?

This reminds me of Priscilla Presley's memoir. After she had Elvis's kid, he wouldn't have sex with her anymore. He an extreme version of the madonna/whore issue. (I realise that wouldn't be Burt's problem.)

Poor Loni --didn't realize she was a bleach blonde beard.

Has there yet been a tell-all biography of Burt Reynolds? He was, with Clint Eastwood, the biggest male movie star in the US in the late 70s, so I would think there would be an audience for it. But maybe they're waiting until Loni dies.

One dumb thing celebrities like Reynolds and Nic Cage do with money is to buy multiple houses, thinking it's a good real estate investment and that they'll use them all in the meantime.

The thing is that they're usually poor investments because you need a staff to keep them up, and unless you have reasons to be in multiple cities they won't use more than two of them most often. Moreover, something like that huge white elephant at r17 is ridiculous. If you could afford something like that in the Atlanta suburbs you'd want something very up to date inside--and why would you want all that acreage around it?

"Adopted" son. It is his son period. The boy was adopted at birth.

Loni should do a candlelight vigil there

Is that Mitzi Gaynor in the left background of the photo at R31?

R37 Agreed. An adopted child is still loved as much as a blood son or daughter. Burt said he son Quinton was the best achievement of his life. That's love.

Quinton is a handsome man now.

Burt was one hot number back in the day.

Will any of his ex bfs come forward?

An old proof from Burt's Cosmo shoot showing his peepee.

Looks small!

Nice bush.

Son pings.

The other shelves were for his numerous male, uh, 'protegées.'

He had a hot ass, but couldn't live forever.

I seen to recall Sally Field in one of her books mentioned that Burt was furious with her for winning an Academy Award.

Ah, that queer envy raised its nasty head.

Dom DeLuise would have filled up the rest of the mausoleum.

In the 2nd photo in the closer weekly link, Burt's fly appears to be open.

What in the gay hell is this?!?

It's just an old queen chatting with 4 old washed up movie hags.

Hal Needham was the love of Burt's life. Perhaps he wanted Hal interred on one side of him and Loni on the other.

Burt "discovered" Robert Urich

Burt sexually harassed Jay R. Ferguson who played his son on Evening Shade. This resulted in a fistfight on set.

That was shupossed to be my final reshting placesh!

Loni's breast implants would have required separate berths.

It was built large enough to fit both his and Loni's careers (but it wouldn't have been for all their plastic surgeons).

More details about Jay Ferguson!

Was he really bisexual or is that just another DL wishing on a star?

R63, ask Dom DeLuise....

Burt also had a disco in downtown Atlanta in the late 70s at what is now the CNN Center. It was only open a year because apparently boogying on a stained glass caricature of his face wasn't very hip.

There were some DLers with good stories about his dinner theater

Poor Burt was anticipating endless evenings of Dead Celebrity Win, Lose Or Draw.

The well-respected photographer Francesco Scavullo took the photos for the Cosmo spread. He took many full-frontal nudes of Reynolds during the shoot. Reynolds gave permission to Helen Gurely Brown to run a full-frontal photo, but he withdrew it when his agent told him it would ruin his career.

Considering the amount of success he actually had, a few silly movies and tv shows, would it have mattered?

Mar a Lago.

how could he go bankrupt?

I supposed you always think there will be more.

if I ever come into some bucks, I'm buying a really nice condo with affordable HOA fees and investing the rest and laying low

Burt was very partial to the stunt man milieu. He had several male lovers from that arena. He was like Rock Hudson. He only took manly men to his bed, and the straighter they came off the better he liked them. He did keep some nelly queens around for their comedy value though. Dom DeLuise was his head court jester and pretty much the only one he allowed the public to see him with because Dom was married and had kids. But anyone who ever saw Dom's wife knew exactly what that set up was all about. MAJOR BULL DYKEAGE with that woman.

"Where money was concerned he was impetuous, foolhardy, reckless, and just plain stupid."

It didn't help that he married a woman who bought everything "in triplicate": gowns, diamonds, cars, houses. Marrying Loni Anderson was the biggest mistake he ever made in his life. I wonder why he married her? Because she was blonde and had big tits? Surely he could have found somebody like that who DIDN'T spend money like it was growing on trees. And why in hell did they adopt a child? Because they thought it would be good publicity? She used the fact that they had a child, albeit an adopted one, to get though a loophole in their prenup agreement. I think she was draining him of money until the day he died. She was a relentless gold digger.

Burt paid a visit to the world famous Atlanta drag bar 'Sweet Gum Head' back in the 70s. Here he is with reigning drag queen supreme & Miss Gay America of 1979, Miss Rachel Wells.

R72 he married her because she was famous and he thought it would be boost to his career, and he was just as stupid in love as he was in his finances.

Burt Reynolds was always a fair ground version of Marlon Brando.

Spill the tea on him sexually harassing the guy on Evening Shade. He did beat the shit out of his first wife, he had major rage and not F***ing Loni once they married makes it seem like he had some weird mother complex mixed wanting peen but being unable to come out so bearding it was his option which angered him.

For years he dated Dinah Shore who was 20 years older than him, for pete's sake. That's classic closet case activity, just like John Travolta, when he was little more than a kid, dating Diana Hyland who was 19-20 years older than him.

It is Mitzi R39!

Not an uncommon thing at all....

Cemeteries all over USA and Europe have crypts, mausoleums and even burial plots that were built or purchased and never used.

Often someone buys a plot or plots, builds a mausoleum or whatever but then decides (or family makes decision) person's remains will be buried elsewhere. That is if the cemetary is in Queens, NY and person moved to Florida or California that is often where they may be buried instead of sending body back to New York. More so if none of immediate family still lives in area.

Other times a man may buy enough burial space for himself, wife and each child (along with maybe their spouses). But again things happen and plans change; maybe the husband and wife end up buried or interred, but children have moved away and have no intention of having their remains sent back.

Thanks for the confirmation, R78. One must not lose sight of what is truly important on DL !

[quote] Cemeteries all over USA and Europe have crypts, mausoleums and even burial plots that were built or purchased and never used.

This is true. I have in my files about 6 or 7 very old deeds to burial plots in Calvary Cemetery in Queens that were purchased by my great-grandfather in the 1890s and 1900s. Apparently he bought them to help out friends and relatives who did not have the funds when a husband or wife died. But then no one else was interred in the plots. I have no idea what to do with the deeds, as I am certainly not going to be buried in any of those plots.

[quote] not F***ing Loni once they married

We’re adults here. You can say fucking.

I promise nothing will happen.

loved the story of how Burt kissed ON THE LIPS a young neal patrick harris after a scene in a movie and it was suppose to be a joke!

some joke!...imagine a young gay harris of course because of his age not out yet and getting smooched by reynolds!... course it was also cruel to do this as a joke in front of a crew..

R81, couldn't you sell them? My grandfather bought a cemetery plot that would fit x8, thinking his children would want to be buried there. 70+ years after he bought it, only he and my grandmother are buried there. I have an aunt and her husband who will most likely be buried there, but my mother has said--quite literally--that over her dead body will she be buried there. If I dropped dead tomorrow, I'd like to be buried there (if not cremated), but it won't be my decision to make at that point.

R81 I have the same situation. I have deeds to about six family plots in a cemetery in a small town. I inquired about selling them and they told me essentially the plot was worth what it was bought for in the early 1900s, which was like twenty bucks. Then they would turn around and sell it for today’s going rate, which could be a couple thousand.