Burt Reynolds, the mustached sex symbol of the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood’s No. 1 male movie star, from 1978 to 1982 who ruled the box office with good-ol’-boy movies like Smokey and the Bandit, and earned the critical praise he so badly desired in Starting Over and Boogie Nights, died Thursday in Florida of cardiac arrest, his agent confirmed. He was 82.
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